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A greenwood stage

... discomfiture. Mr. Robert Eddison, who in his dark- blue cloak scattered with' stars, makes Oberon a rather terrifying figure, speaks the verse beautifully, and Miss June Bailey is a youthful -Titania who is clearly no match for her tormentor. The most co ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 800 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

SAVAGE AND THRILLING READING: A Tale of Zulus, and their Legendary Chief, Shaka Zulu; My Story, by Sir Gordon ..

... account to give of himself, forthright, clearly stated and modest without being coy, but also engages in some admirably plain speaking. For instance, he writes at one point This is the story of a successful life, and so, I suppose, I shall not be able to escape ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

BUILDER OF THE NORTHERN WALL

... through the mysteries of a personality This summer the question raises itself again, for the book now impacts on English-speaking readers its formerly limited circulation in this country will extend. MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN has been published by Seeker and ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1658 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

THE FLOATING VOTERS

... about it, that suits the TV medium as exactly as attempts to present a stage show within the frame of a postage-stamp, so to speak, are doomed to ghastly and expensive failure. The whole secret of television, I feel, lies in its power to bring us face to ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1130 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

... all 's well again, with the Dream basking in the best of weather gently now, I 'm 4 talking of last week Robert Eddison to speak Oberon as finely as we have heard it in recent years, and Mr. Atkins and the mechanicals of Athens-cum-Arden galumphing through ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

THE ENGLISH CHARACTER: Geoffrey Gorer' s Investigation Into the Lives of His Fellow-Countrymen; Peter ..

... questionnaires from which Mr. Gorer quotes constantly, with the result that throughout these pages the reader finds the English speaking for themselves. The author's own final comment is just as worthy of quotation and very revealing When I was reading, with ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1704 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Something of All Sorts

... opinion, to say nothing of about 300 photo graphs it is as diverse a collection of golfiana as anyone is likely to come across. Speaking of the nineteenth, there is a recent little book called Port and Sherry, by Patrick Sandeman, who writes in simple terms ...

A DEFECT OF CHARACTERS

... still producing fascinating ideas out of reach of others without his training and inspired aptitude for research is, humanly speaking, as sad a figure as the figure of the old shipbuilder in Love on the Dole beating his brow and crying out despairingly for ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 859 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

TURBULENCE AND REVELATIONS: A Biography of Norman Douglas; Further Memoirs of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart; A ..

... well as persuading a lot of other people to become British, that we have almost forgotten what it means to be English. So speaks one of the characters in this extremely bright first novel, and your reviewer owns to agreeing with his sentiments, while ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1791 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review