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Mr. Sinclair's Bombo

... not in use, to play in their own room. He made all effort to be kind. In this ruthless and unforgettable fable Miss Paley speaks in a still, small, quietly frantic voice for any woman for whom each new day dawns with breakfast and what are widely known ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1040 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review 

OTTERS ON THE SOFA

... example, quite unaware that wildcats are common animals in the West Highlands and assume, when one refers to them, that one is speaking of domestic cats run wild, not of the tawny, lynx-like ferals that had their den, that and every other year, within two hundred ...

Round the abstract bend

... of his titles to the Coast, to Kent and to Pastoral, he is not an abstract impressionist but a pure painter whose paint speaks for itself. I have left far less room than it deserves for the show of recent pictures by the Indian artist, Avinash Chandra ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 636 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Romeo with the brake on

... things and lacking them, really lacking everything. Here is no lyric emotion because that depends on the speaking of the verse, and the speaking of the verse throughout the performance is utterly without vocal rhythm and music. And, well balanced as the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 647 | Page: 55 | Tags: Review 

FOR MANY TASTES

... who live in towns. The subjects dealt with include: yeast cookiU hanging wallpaper, rug -making! hedgerow basketry, how to speak in public, edible and inedible fungi, and a host of others. Wew Photograms 1961 (Itiffe and II Sons Ltd.; 21s.) contains a ...

ATLANTIC ALLIANCE: Illustrated guide to Anglo-American history

... the general editorship of K. R. Greenfield are responsible for this wide-ranging review in which the facts are allowed to speak for themselves. For the reader there is the fascinating exercise ot considering what might have been. Ann Welch and Gabor Denes ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 693 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Mr. More swerves out of orbit

... beauty and devotion should he lavished on such a boorish fellow is almost more than one can bear and his death comes as (I speak for myself) quite a relief. The exquisite colour photography and MissArima s performance are worth seeing. CINEMA it's getting ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1020 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

NOBLE ENIGMA: A new biography of Alfred Nobel

... of Shelley, whom he revered, and finally succumbed to a heart stroke. The first manifestations of this prevented him from speaking any language but his native Swedish. Alfred Nobel died on Decem ber 10, 1896, with no one to whisper comfort to him in his ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 670 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A film to knock the knockers

... IN ONE OF THOSE SMALL, INTIMATE restaurants where you can't help hearing your neighbour's conversa tion-- because they will speak up as if addressing the multitude from the steps of the Albert Memorial-- a grey-haired gentleman was deplor ing the lack of ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1081 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

This may steam the monocles

... Such sweet thunder, to wit but this is the first time lie lias launched a frontal attack on another man's music. Ducally speaking, the main change from his other suites is that there are fewer mood passages, unless the intriguing Chinoi serie qualifies ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 566 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

An excellent job--I hated it

... An excellent job I hated it SPEAKING ENTIRELY PERSONALLY, I find it hard to interest myself in any of the characters involved in an epic that runs for well over three hours: the spectacle, which excuses the length, seems to me to dwarf the individual ...

Published: Wednesday 21 December 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1051 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

DEDICATED ANGLOPHILE: Henry James' English Hours; autobiography and biography; and this week's fiction

... was the greatest cross-examiner I ever knew, and the very first time I saw him he had reached the peak of perfection. One speaks lightly of tributes and many have been paid to Sir Patrick Hastings, but this, surely, is one of the finest, to a man who ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1303 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review