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TELEVISION TODAY reviews: The Logic Game

... grip on the spidery thread of rapport I had had with the protagonists and it was some time before I regained it. Technically speaking. The Logic Game was brilliantly filmed and edited (cameraman Dick Bush, editor MichacI Johns) and the imagination expended ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: 12 | Tags: review 

Desert fauna

... cook once said, we have come into a world where everything is made of chocolate, ham, curry-powder and salmon! The man was speaking of Petra, the rose-red city, half as old as time, enticingly re-described in Portrait of a Desert by Guy Mountford (Collins ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION TODAY reviews: The Navigators

... persons who would make friends and influence people. All had the north country accent so beloved of television these days and, speaking as a north countryman myself, one the accent of Fatty I never want to hear again, on the screen or off it. I ended up by ...

Published: Thursday 28 January 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 12 | Tags: review 

Still waters

... We are always in deeper than we expect, writes V. S. Prit chett, in The Working Novel ist (Chatto & Windus 21s.). He is speaking of Alfred de Vigny, but it is equally true of himself. There is not one of these New Statesman papers here (whether Pritchett ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 842 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

Speaking as a non-Zen Buddhist

... I Speaking as a non-Zen Buddhist Robert Wraight To tell a serious artist that his work is very tasteful is just about the most damning thing you can say these days and I shall therefore refrain from saying it about the exhibition of paintings by Luigi ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 731 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Doom on the mountain

... without being too brutalized. The chief protagonists are Virginia, a widowed Australian archae ologist, and Dursun, an English speaking Kurd with whom she falls in love. Dursun is a dedi cated political type. The tale ends with earthquake and other tragic ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1017 | Page: 44, 47 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

Beware of the bears

... the Continent. I specially value a glimpse of Stalin in 1943: He has that disconcert ing habit of not looking at one as he speaks or shakes hands. A meeting with him would be in all respects a creepy, even a sinister experience if it weren't for his readiness ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 944 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

Ringing the non-bells

... state. When 32-year-old Marion Wilson says: It is working hard that makes me feel happier than anything else,' she evidently speaks the truth. Most widely known for her greeting card designs for the Gordon Frase: Gallery, she also does graphic design work ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 722 | Page: 45, 46 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

My particular fair lady

... began to swallow the Maclnnes theory that one does not so much look at a painting by Thelma Hulbert as enter into it, so to speak, and look about one. But when the show was over I forgot about them-- till this month when her exhibition, mainly of recent ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 761 | Page: 53 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

Suicide mission

... fragile-looking Dutchman (Tom Courtenay) a suave Eng lishman (Jeremy Kemp) and a self-confident American (George Peppard), all speaking immaculate German. While still in Holland Mr. Courtenay is nabbed and shot as a spy by the German police and Mr. Peppard ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 987 | Page: 42, 43 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

TELEVISION TODAY REVIEWS: Even at the end this is well up to standard

... rarely any great dramatic acting needed in this series. Most of the time Peter Woodthorpe as Frank had only to look pleased and speak happily about spending the money, while Rose, his girl friend (Pauline Delany) uttered eternal warnings about the outcome of ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 451 | Page: 14 | Tags: review 

The jazz that never was

... and much needed rhythmic vigour to the music. But I wish somebody could have supervised the Italian sung by this English- speaking cast. The Italian word sacerdotal (it means the same as in English) is sung on one occasion with great con viction as s ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 902 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs  Review