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THE CHRISTMAS SHOWS OF 1957: STOCKPORT

... Rowe (12). They are confident from the start, and gaily dance around with a note of enthusiasm ringing in every word they speak or sing. Olga Regan, as Fairy Kindheart, provides a surprise for the regu lars. She competently makes her entrances and exits ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 26 | Tags: review 

ICE SHOWS: EDINBURGH

... Dudley Hare's direction of the Murrayficld Icc Rink Orchestra and Frederick Gommers Melodists, who provide the singing and speaking voices, deserve their share of praise ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 23 | Tags: review 

THE CHRISTMAS SHOWS OF 1957: GLASGOW

... pal boy and girl, although not strong vocally, make the most of their opportunities and include such well-known numbers as I Speak to the Stars and Friendship. Pat Wilson and Daphne Shaven have not much to do as the Babes, but they do it most fetchingly ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2635 | Page: 28 | Tags: review 

THE CHRISTMAS SHOWS OF 1955: PRESTON

... team. Mary Redfern. with provocative :harm and a boyish swagger, plays Prince Lancelot, the principal boy. She acts well, speaks plainly, and lolds her audience with well-chosen tongs, such as I Wonder. When he Bloom is on the Heather and A New Day Coming ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 330 | Page: 16 | Tags: review 

CRIMINAL IN THE FAMILY

... One and all, they transcend themselves one is proud to know them. Thicker than Water is so good a novel that one is loath to speak of it as a social document. Here, none the less, is an unbiased picture of the Welfare State, opportunities balanced against ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1133 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE PRINCE OF: DOGDOM

... women, becomes a dominant symbol of our century fitly, his outline punctuates Thurber's Dogs. The drawings in this volume speak more than volumes. Enjoy them laugh if you dare lAr AT iAT GB. Stern's new novel, FOR ALL WE KNOW (Collins 13s. 6 d.), opens ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1283 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

BRING ON THE SCENERY

... in front of those sets. We remember that premiere still, whereas Plain and Fancy, for all its so-gentle charm, is going (I speak for myself) to be quickly and wildly forgettable. On the next night, when Max Adrian and Moyra Fraser, in a Fresh Airs sketch ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 640 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

A TOUCH OF THE SPUR

... than those dismal re-enacted problems m Godfrey Winn's As Others See Us. But no Mackenzie reporting on a Burns dinner should speak of a haggis as an alien sight. Freda Bruce Loch-hart c Television SOUND ADVICE FROM MOTHER is given by Barbara Couper to Anthony ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

THE HOUSE OF HORNBEAM

... words reveal why this day is the finale of Fountain Court. In their dire way the closing chapters are splendid and humanly speaking, let me assure you, the ending is anything but unhappy. The Half-Crown House, unless I am very wrong, should be one of the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 752 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

THE QUALITY OF GENTLENESS is rare in the cinema of to-day

... that Hollywood had found its best young actor since Marlon Brando. Rebel Without a Cause confirms this impression. Broadly speaking, the film belongs in the same class as The Wild One and The Blackboard Jungle. Within the limits of Hollywood melodrama ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 562 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Plain and Fancy

... Plain and Fancy Drury Lane Straight is how we live, says Malcolm Keen in a beard, and plain, and simple, and content. He is speaking for the Amish, that colony of simple-living farmers in the depths of Pennsylvania. They have found their pleasant visitors ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

TSAR WITHOUT CONSCIENCE: The Life of Peter the Great; Travel in Brazil and in the Far East; An American ..

... Miss Ebener writes as crisply and toughly as a Nepalese orchid, this is a book to remember. She has covered journalistically speaking a great expanse of the world's surface and she can write about what she observed as clearly, if not as objectively, as if ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1524 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review