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Priscilla in Paris: Gowns and Clowns

... Lachaise cemetery, where Sarah Bernhardt's grave is always covered with the freshly-plucked Parma violets that the great actress loved, there is a monument that I have missed hitherto. It was massed with flowers that almost hid the tablet bearing the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 983 | Page: 17 | Tags: Cartoons 

Decadence? Think Again, Mr. Mayhew

... that fun I can see only one flaw to the plan. New York is, as you know, at the moment quite infested by British actors and actresses. At t rst sound of siren these rugged chara ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 853 | Page: 33 | Tags: Cartoons 

At The Picture

... shoddy little productions have squandered talent. For Mr. Colleano's five young ladies the producers have discovered five new actresses who might supply personality for a year's output of British films Gina Lollobrigida (the Italian), Eva Bartok (the Hungarian) ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 986 | Page: 29 | Tags: Cartoons 

PRISCILLA IN PARIS

... not conscientious, heroically eats and drinks her way through that dinner every evening. The life of a clever and popular actress is not and young stage-struck damsels take heed entirely, one sees a life of lobster salad and champagne suppers, no, nor ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1920
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1018 | Page: 10 | Tags: Cartoons 

At the Pictures

... things are more em barrassing in the cinema than uncertainty whether laughter is intended or not. Margaret Lockwood as an actress has nearly always faced me with this em barrassment; but in Highly Dangerous the film as well as the star presents the same ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1084 | Page: 12 | Tags: Cartoons 

Standing By..

... for the Festival of Britain will most likely be driven round and round (our spies report) by a delicious little West End actress, as England expects. Whether her duties, in addition to graceful driving, will include anything beyond fluttering long ourling ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1006 | Page: 27 | Tags: Cartoons 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... with valour as they dashed at the enemy. This may be excusable in warfare of ages ago, but the use of portraits of a dead actress to adver tise the performance of a company which lives after her, is inde cent in the nineteenth century. Madame Dolaro has ...

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Mr. Carroll's Latest

... gush through the head lines and box-offices. And another good girl will be able to keep her belief in fairies. The young actress thus discovered presumably sierns on Mr. Carroll's dotted line, and for a month or two I she stays in the background while ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 999 | Page: 23 | Tags: Cartoons 

Standing By..

... so many noblemen and gentlemen in 1761 spent their nights in rolling round the bagnios, beating up the watch, chuck ing actresses under the chin, rioting, gambling, duelling, and otherwise misbehaving, here was a select company of them chaunting blameless ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 969 | Page: 26 | Tags: Cartoons 

Standing By ..

... Press-agent tells us that doggies any one of whom rates for news-value at this moment at about the level of six exquisite little actresses robbed of mink coats have still i learn the art of timing from their lovely rivals. Otherwise, he said, our dumber chums ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1023 | Page: 24 | Tags: Cartoons 

At The Perfume

... been fortunate indeed in his choice of the two foreign stars. Scotland Yard is fortunate in being represented by so good an actress as Irene Worth while Audrey Hepburn is quite as charming as advance reports and her Broadway success had suggested. Vengeance ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1074 | Page: 35 | Tags: Cartoons 

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS: AT THE WESTMINSTER THEATRE

... UNDER THE ELMS AT THE WESTMINSTER THEATRE By ALAN BOTT OUTSIDE the spoken words, Mr. Eugene O'Neill asks a lot from any actress playing Abbie in his Desire Under the Elms, which has been licensed at last by the Lord Chamberlain for public performance ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1062 | Page: 17 | Tags: Cartoons