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... realm of 78- speed discs looks like spreading to the LP lists with eight songs under the J J title of Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean. j Classical -pHERE can be little doubt that, but for his death in an air disaster in 1956, Guido Cantelli would now have ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA: Recent Productions

... actors John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. The story 's a mere trifle about a young couple who fall in love, suddenly, in the Caribbean, and decide to build a home round a brass bedstead on the sunny beach of an otherwise uninhabited island. The Sheriff of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

Dreams and drama in backstreet Trinidad

... the snatches of calypso, the hymn tunes, street cries and other exotic sound effects, the characters appeal to us less as Caribbeans beset by particular problems of their own than as poverty-stricken human beings dreaming of a big, free life. The nearest ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 813 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

Good, clean fun in the Place Pigalle

... thinking, the poorest vaudeville stuff, and his incarcera tion in an iron cage and his escape on a raft all the way from the Caribbean to the Seine at Paris I found increasingly tedious. Admittedly, the music of Mile. Marguerite Monnet grows better and better ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 930 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A jack-of-all-trades tries fiction

... Visiting Jamaica, you'd be surprised to envis age a wee horror-island in its vicinity. This rather grey little dot in the Caribbean purports to be nothing more than a bird sanctuary (subsidized by a society in America) whose particular denizen is the Whooping ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1033 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

Mr. Kaye goes straight

... actress with a more fetching person ality than most of them, is charming as a mother-ridden English miss who, while on a Caribbean cruise, meets and falls in love with an American writer-student (Mr. John Cassavetes), excavating in the British Virgin Islands ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1058 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

For moments off on the beach

... of The Isis, so there.) This refreshing author Rage On The Bat is his sixth novel) mixes a jolly brew out of a decadent Caribbean island, a Mau-Mau-type native underground, ritual murders, a perplexed not-quite-a-gentleman A.D.C. to the Governor, and ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

LOVE, LIFE AND PROBLEMS

... man who goes mad by getting into a psychia tric ward; Rage on the Bar, by Geoffrey Wagner Alvin Redman, 15 s), is a strong Caribbean story. The Devil Comes to Winchelsea, by Philip Lindsay Hutchinson 15s), ends cataclysmically with the drowning of the old ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1282 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A WOMAN'S NOVEL OF EXCELLENCE: A Realistic Love Story; The Humour of the American Civil Service; William ..

... fiery impulses. The time is the eighteenth century, the background, which is admirably documented, is a plantation near a Caribbean shore, and the protagon ists are members of a family whose natural bents see saw between the patriarchal and the libidinous ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1428 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

PURITAN OF FLORENCE: A New Biography of Savonarola; A Study of Conrad and his Characters; Antarctica and Saudi ..

... eventually killed, blown up at least once and involved in countless affairs of violence. From Palestine the author went to the Caribbean, where he found Trinidad a land of paradox and Tobago an island of beauty, and later crossed the Atlantic yet again for Africa ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1541 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

LIGHT-HEARTED ECCENTRICITY: An Unconventional Mother; A Frustrated Secret Serviceman; A New Volume of Robert ..

... George Lamming, one of the most notewon of the new school of West Indian novelists, and i setting is, naturally enough, the Caribbean, with its cha of lovely islands, remote or tourist-infested, peaceful seething. In the island of which he writes-- the bo ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1640 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS: The Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition; Records of Journeys in Many Parts of the World ..

... articles from the pen of this much-travelled author, written between 1928 and 1953, the date on which he first visited the Caribbean and the date when just possibly he set his other work aside in order to write that successful novel, Island in the Sun. The ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1792 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review