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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, edited by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly (Oxford Universi ty Press. ..

... days, nor influenced by its near neighbour in the States. Moreover, there are two theatres in Canada, English and French- speaking, and both find their place in this comprehensive volume, which has over 700 entries covering actors, wri ters, directors ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 8 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEW: TV MISNOMER

... The Ultimate TV Guide would have details of every television programme ever made, and even if it stuck to only the English- speaking programmes would probably require sufficient vol umes to fill a bookshelf. So Jon E Lewis and Penny Stempels Ultimate TV ...

Published: Thursday 15 July 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 26 | Tags: book review 

Christmas Review: High spirits lift the standards

... Jon Bliss as Blackheart proves a powerful nasty. Nicole Rtzpatrick makes the perfect Good Fairy, with her crystal- clear speaking voice, a smiling face and artistic movements. Mark Hastings as Jack and Deborah Pugh as Jill play the romantic leads with ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 17 | Tags: book review 

On The Other Hand. A Life Story by Fay Wray (Weidenfeld and Nicholson. £5.99) This superlative autobiography is ..

... one film and one leading man above all others: King Kong. Yet she dedicates her book to him in an affectionate prologue, speaking of her respect and admiration and the poetic metaphor of Beautiful mo ments in the film. She writes compassionately of ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 23 | Tags: book review 

Books: Yes, women do have a sense of humour

... a brand of innuendo every bit as distinctive as that of Max Miller, and it is not true to state that they had to dress and speak in an eccentric or grotesque fashion to get away with it, the best male performers did the same, including Miller. -m It is ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 28 | Tags: book review 

Elizabeth Taylor by Alexander Walker (Weidenfeh and Nicolson, £16.99 Walker's large, detailed and well ..

... she wanted to drive the hard est bargain possible. She sometimes quotes with derision the absurd dia logue she was made to speak, and in jewellers' shops quotes a line from an early film in which her beloved advised her to remove her diamond earrings: ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 809 | Page: 28 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEW: Black from the past

... warriors, recklessly brave, which may have given rise to the term ?foolhardy1. But inevitably they had a special status, speaking directly to the King himself and perhaps forming a useful conduit, albeit a guarded one, between the monarch and his nobles ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2159 | Page: 20 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEW: A chance to chart the nice side of the loon

... Note that address, because Wivenhoe is the actor's birthplace. The actor himself was of the grand old school, trained, so to speak, by Sir Henry Irving, in whose company he served an almost unbelievably long appren ticeship of 14 years. But when he did decide ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2876 | Page: 28 | Tags: book review