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It isn't drama--but I like it

... own prosaic pre occupations quite mad. The son is trying to train a set of weighing machines of the kind which an nounce: I speak your weight into the embryo of a Bach Choir. He is getting on well with his ambitious work except that one recalcitrant machine ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 839 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

We could have it better

... thing is going to happen in the world of jazz? The mass of small clubs which now feature jazz as their musical enter tainment speak for the home following; the stream of trans atlantic visitors confirms, in part, the public's willingness to patronize concerts ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 591 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Miss Wedgwood and the middling kettle

... presume that no one but ourselves is capable of making deductions from facts? It's the best, gentlest, and wittiest way of speaking up for her own method, and typical of an historian who writes with such grace, imaginative sympathy and passionate enthusiasm ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 858 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Another slice of O'Neill

... drunk to her bed and but gradually she becomes aware that, so far as physical love goes, the Broadway rake is, emotionally speaking, dead. He hates those who share his need for it. To him the Titaness is a figure of great beauty because she is, he divines ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 891 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

Scandal at the Admiralty

... hands to murder. The specimens with which they thenceforth supply Dr. Robert Knox (the distinguished Mr. Cushing) are, so to speak, home- killed. The doctor, solely concerned with the advancement of medical science, asks no questions but eventually other ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 925 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

Why not leave it to Shakespeare?

... Shakespeare through the ■wringer in the Mermaid's modern-dress version of King Henry V. As the King William Peacock (left) speaks to Monljoy the French herald (Anton DilTring). Right: Before Harfleur with rifles instead of longbows THEATRE VERDICTS of ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 951 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review 

Dark side of a golden age

... vocabulary and spelling of the time. (Only Regency specialists do this nowadays, the new trick being to have all charac ters speak, and indeed think, uncommon 20th-century.) Everybody who was anybody in literary society crops up through these pages Suckling ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 924 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Sir Stanley makes you listen

... conferences, lecturing, broadcasting. He teaches one of liis sons German by taking him to Germany for three weeks and resolutely speaking only the language of the country. (Funnily enough it was I who first needed the dictionary; I didn't know what a grasshopper ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 797 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Come off it, Mr. Saroyan

... Shows, by Sarah Vaughan. Songs For Any Taste, by Mel Tonne. Odds Against Tomorrow, by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Historically Speaking, The Duke, by Duke Ellington. The gallery British Painting, 1730-1960. Pushkin Museum, Moscow. VERDICTS THEATRE overdraft ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 895 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Ella sings all the words

... justify its place in my shelves. For sheer impact of music you should hear an important record by Duke Ellington, Historically speak ing (PMClll(i), reissued as a result of the transfer of the Bethlehem catalogue rights in England. These twelve titles, recorded ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 552 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Broach the rat-poison, brother!

... ing his subject and listening to the Africans' views: the dialogue of his African characters is not scripted he lets them speak for themselves. Zacharia, a simple man from Zululand, is driven by famine to take work in the gold mines near Johannesburg ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1033 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

Where the Raj went wrong

... magnanimity, the emotional intimacy he had desperately hoped to find in the friendship is utterly impossible. East and West do not speak the same language and their minds can make no fruitful contact. On its own merits, then, this is an exciting play, quite apart ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review