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The Joys of Gory Grand Guignol

... lowest haunts in Paris, and what goes on there is really rather fascinating. I wish I could say that the humour provided by Lauri Wylie in Couple of Couples was equally fascinating, but this sort of farce is far more suited to third-class music halls. More ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 769 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

Our Captious Critic: on A WARM CORNER

... WARM CORNER (Princes Theatre). THE complaint which has been lodged against this play, which is by Arthur Wimperis and Lauri Wylie, is that it is a musical comedy without music. This is rather unfair, because, although the story is certainly of the musical ...

Criticisms in Cameo: VARIETY FOR OUR VARIETIES; GRAND GUIGNOL II; THE SILVER CORD, AT THE EMBASSY

... Jealous, a long laugh with a quite unexpected ending by Mr. Harris Deans, and Couple of Couples, an amusing trifle by Lauri Wylie, cleverly satirising the contretemps of two gallivanting couples who went to rival house-agents and hired the same cottage ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1350 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A CLEVER FRENCH COMEDY: Etienne, at the St. James's Theatre

... I, at the Shaftesbury Theatre t f only it had not been used previously X oy an author even more renowned than Messrs. Lauri Wylie, Brandon Fleming and w H. W. Gribble, f feel that She Stoops to Con quer would have been a better title than My Sister and ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1448 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

Criticism in Cameo: EXCELSIOR, AT THE PLAYHOUSE; SONG OF THE SEA, AT HIS MAJESTY'S; THE ADMIRAL'S SECRET, AT ..

... Hulbert, whose inventive ingenuity never seems to grow stale, may well be proud of them. The book, by Arthur Wimperis and Lauri Wylie, is crisp and suited for its purpose while the music of Eduard Hunneke has a fluent ease and tuneful outline which is never ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1882 | Page: 74 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: SENSATION, AT THE LYCEUM; HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY, AT THE NEW; HENRY THE NINTH, AT THE PRINCES

... hand and a real sense of humour, the author might have made something of this extraordinary mental aberration. But Mr. Lauri Wylie's heavy handed methods are so obviously forced, so entirely without inspiration, that the whole business becomes wearisome ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1396 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review