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Lady Chatterley's Lover

... is very hot. They arrange for an hour's truce, come down to the river banks. There is more, but the film should be left to speak for itself. Never was war shown to be more futile. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Love's Labour's Lost

... has been done so well so many times during the last three decades that a new production only partially suc cessful (mixed speaking, beautiful costumes, dull set) is bound to disappoint. There is at least one fine comic performance Mark Dignam's prickly ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Night of the Fourth

... of thing and many people, as well as critics to respect, do then Hugh Sinclair (on behalf of Scotland Yard), Walter Rilla (speaking for psychiatry), and Michael Sheplcy (Yard again) will help you to enjoy it. If you solve its puzzle, you 're a better man ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Trapeze

... Trapeze Odeon, Marble Arch Gina Lollobrigida, in spangles, speaks her own brand of English, breaks up friendship of aerialists Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Directed in France for an American com pany by Carol Reed, who has left only a faint imprint ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Russian Holiday

... went into Allan Chappelow's trip with a British student party. But the written word goes one better. Helped by a Russian-speaking colleague, Mr. Chappelow really worked at seeing and learning everything possible. Any good host, he justly remarks, shows ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

The Active List

... content of Austrian cheeses is state controlled. The book concludes with numerous recipes from various parts of the world. And speaking of recipes, that is to say cooking, The Aga Recipe Book (Wilding and Son 12s. 6d.) is available in two versions, for the ...

SHADOW OF THE ROPE

... a foolish, transparently hypocritical official visiting the prison on behalf of the Department of Justice. But, generally speaking, we have no difficulty in believing that this is just how human beings swept in for a variety of reasons would react to an ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 806 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The Seagull

... Hugh Williams. Diana Wynyard is splendidly the shallow Arkadina; George Relph (old Sorin) and Nicholas Hannen (the doctor) speak from the heart; and I am sure that Lyndon Brook does so as well, though he does not move me yet as some Konstantins have done ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENED

... unsentimental splendour out of the story. Also, this is the closest analysis I have read yet of how ordinary people react speak, dress, spend time in the face of probable, or (for some) certain doom. Of the 2,207 men, women and children aboard the Titanic ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1431 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF WAR: Four Impressive New Novels; Queen Isabella of Spain; Murders in America; Crimes in ..

... Murders in America; Crimes in Railway Trains and in the New Forest FOUR of this week's most im pressive novels have, broadly speaking, a theme in common. This is the examination of the effects of war on civilians, whether they be men or women or children ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2366 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

TESTING GROUND FOR SCHOOLMASTERS

... her European friends impress and interest one. Sometimes a shadowy I, a woman doctor, takes over, somewhat confusingly speaking in the first person: through her eyes we have the hospital scenes in Todak New Village (a re-settlement project). Off-stage ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1343 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

KEEP AGE OUT OF IT!

... peace will settle over all. We shall have neither Juvenile Prodigies nor Grand Old Men. We shall see that it is tedious, in speaking of a play or a performance, to drag in the age of dramatist or actor. I have never been tempted to go to a play just because ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 544 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review