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Why not leave it to Shakespeare?

... Comedy Was King. Producer Robert Youngson. (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Laurel Hardy, and others.) Carry On Constable. Director Gerald Thomas. (Sidney James, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques.) The Battle Of The Sexes. Director ...

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

Lowell's labour's lost: ON FILMS

... ANYBODY WHO IS A SUCKER FOR the super-travelogue, I can recom mend Cinerama's Search For Paradise-- the ubiquitous Mr. Lowell Thomas's latest conducted tour of far-off foreign parts. This time he turns his attention to Ceylon, the Kingdom of Hunza, the River ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1961
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1056 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

ABOUT THOMAS HARDY: A new memoir of the novelist; other literary reflections; Barbara Goolden's new novel heads ..

... ABOUT THOMAS HARDY A new memoir of the novelist; other literary reflections; Barbara Goolden's new novel heads this week's fiction Thomas Hardy was an old man when he died, his ashes buried in Westminster Abbey and his heart in the Dorset he had loved ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1466 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

Steamy heroine

... between Que Victoria and the formidable man whose life gan before the French Revolution, and who funeral was attended by Thomas Hardy, who lso went to Mr. Harold Macmillan's wed ig. Li P., as the Prince Consort called him, was for r infuriating Victoria ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: 53 | Tags: Review 

Roll on the grue

... feels, somehow, as though the author were almost beginning to disbelieve in the old magic himself. The Life Of Thomas Hardy by Florence Emily Hardy (most of it in fact by the novelist himself) is an amalgamation of two books, both of them out of print until ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 845 | Page: 59 | Tags: Review 

Return to the Kwai

... HAWKINS, ALEC GUINNESS, SESSUE HAYAKAWA) SUNDAYS AND CYBELE DIRECTOR SERGE BOURGUIGNON (HARDY KRUGER, NICOLE COURCEL, PATRICIA GOZZI) THE IRON MAIDEN DIRECTOR GERALD THOMAS (MICHAEL CRAIG, ANNE HELM, JEFF DONNELL, ALAN HALE) THE WHITE SLAVERS DIRECTOR MAURICE ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

GLORIOUS DEVON: Walking on Dartmoor

... links with Kipling. At nearby Appledore, Jerome K. Jerome lived for a time. Barnstaple, of course, has been featured by Thomas Hardy, while the Doone country of Somerset overlaps the Devon border on the wild western edges of Exmoor. Thackeray belongs farther ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

GONE TRAVELLING: Christmas in Bethlehem

... 000 ft. volcanic peak has repeatedly aroused the world's imagina tion. In 1961 the little colony, founded by the landing of Thomas Currie in 1810, was finally forced to evacuate in the face of an eruption which, as ill chance had it, was focused on the ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 873 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

Films

... 1965 THE LAUGHING TWEN TIES (U). Ritz, Leicester Sq, W 1 (GER 1234). A Robert Youngson production. Com pilation of Laurel Hardy comedy extracts. B W. 1 hr 19 min. Compiled 1965 t MONSIEUR HULOT'SHOLI- D AY (U). Prince Charles Theatre, Leicester Sq, W ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3379 | Page: 51 | Tags: Review 

FILMS

... lost. Lips crack as characters clash beside the sand dunes. Directed by Robert Aldrich, it might increase ice-cream sales. (Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea. Col. 140 min.) Carlton Haymarket. WHI 3711. 2.24, 5.19, 8.16 (Sat: ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5589 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS REVIEWED

... in black and white. Alan Bloom's Hardy Plants of Distinction (Colling ridge, 35s.) would make a most welcome present for any gar dener, since it introduces to the reader a host of attractive but too seldom grown hardy peren nials, many of which will be ...