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THE AMATEUR THEATRE

... production by Frederick G. Lloyd, who is Controller of the huge theatre and had obviously been at pains to make the company speak up. Charles Viccars (Sir Henry Angkatell) was outstandingly good in this respect, but the whole company showed a refreshing ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4121 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

PLEASURE: ITS PURSUIT AND ENJOYMENT: Miss Langley Moore's Book is Full of Treasures; and a Selection of Other ..

... love. Miss Barbara Blackburn tells the story in the first person, through her young heroine, only forgetting that tliose who speak and act with the adolescent impetuousness of her Sally, are unlikely to be abe to tell a story as coherently. There is a fine ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1810 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Down Came a Blackbird: Savoy

... cheerful and as bewildered as any dramatist might who was taking a call after the houselights had gone up. He was able to speak, tnougn ne would agree tnat wnat ne said was not oratory, and that his comedy was much better. I don't say that it is in any ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Our Bookshelf

... 12s. 6 d.) KATE TERRY GIELGUD An Autobiography. Max Reinhardt 21s.) Reviewed by G. B. Stern IT seems somewhat premature to speak of The Little Ark, by Jan de Hartog, as the best novel of 1954 (even supposing we read it at the end of 1953), but cer tainly ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1488 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

One Man's Verdict On War

... young women of raving beauty and possibly murderous proclivities who slew the pro fessor, and who the house agent, not to speak of the starling? Denis O'Rourke, fasci nating actor just home from Hollywood, poses to himself this absorbing question, in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1955 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Illyrians and the Russians: Twelfth Night; Old Vic

... persuading me of the truth of any simulated emotion. She is a clever actress, but (and I speak for myself) she has not developed her powers of communication heart does not speak to heart. Elsewhere, the tale is far happier. John Neville is the most truly romantic ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 868 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

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... sixteenth century, ensure that the house hold and family of Alderman John Shaxper are not mere romantic puppets they live and speak and think and act as though the barriers between historical and now are negligible. For instance, at the start of the book ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1498 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

Miss Macaulay Rifles A Treasure Chest

... with imagination, yet so simple that one may take for granted the magical manner in which the words are fused. And humanly speaking, he is both quick and true in 'his probings of states of feeling or of mind. He excels at catch ing people at odd moments ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1775 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Moon is Blue: London Pavilion

... much more interested in cooking a good supper especially kedgeree, if they '11 go and get the makings. And that, roughly speaking, is the plot of The Moon is Blue. Since the comedy of sex is all talk and no do, and the message if any is that innocent ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 648 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

An X-Ray Is Turned On Dean Swift

... madness, his fascination for all those whose paths he crossed, his awesome power to suffer and inflict suffering. Humanly speaking, to be involved with him as were the gentle Stella and the tempestuous, indiscreet Vanessa could lead to nothing but disaster ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1562 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A Film Magician's Testament

... Britain, and classic houses, re-showing former favourites, combine to prove. It is to the young of to-day that Rene Clair speaks both as a voice from the past and out of the wisdom of his maturity. In 1922, enthusiasts' eyes dilated at The Cabinet of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review