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Criticisms in Cameo: LORD O' CREATION, AT THE SAVOY; PHYLLIS DARE IN THE STREET SINGER.; BACK TO METHUSELAH-- ..

... his doings, flourished by the Press, in a scrap-book, and never by sign or word did she betray that she knew his secret. For she realised that she was not the kind of woman who would fit in well in the great world of wealth and Society that she might lose ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1707 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: I. THE WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, AT THE QUEEN'S; II. KIMONO, AT THE Q.; III. SLEEPING PARTNERS, ..

... triste fellow there is no redeeming feature. His character if character it can be called can be fathomed by one line that comes from his lips when, wearied of his liaison, he pays in a restaur ant for a sumptuous dinner with her bounties, and to the waiter ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1430 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE STAGE

... value of good period decoration (with song and dance) in a play like this. Here is a Victorian and Edwardian Scrapbook, with lusty echoes from the music-halls, and with lady pioneers of cycling rationally bloomered, with a vintage motor-car and a host ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1053 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... natural and undramatic beginning, the gradual heightening of suspense as the plot proceeds from the comic to the bizarre, and from the bizarre to the sinister, and from thence to the fatal these are handled with an unemphatic restraint as refreshing as it ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2205 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... never took their clothes off. But, from beginning to end, with few exceptions, this crowd of refugees behaved with coolness and courage. Social distinctions soon went by the board. Our common dirt did that. _ From the artistic stand- evise point, Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1737 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... him anonymously for twenty years, keeping his Press-cuttings in a scrapbook. The present war finds Miss De Havilland and scrapbook in London, and long-lost son arriving on a troop train from, of all odd places, Huddersfield. With the help of a sympathetic ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1281 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

Review: MAN OF THE WORLD

... MAN OF THE WORLD. More than five years ago Roger Livesey appeared in Peter Ustinoy's The Banbury Nose, which presented a man's life in reverse, running back from Z to A. Now here is the same actor in a play by a new dramatist, C. E. Webber, at the Lyric ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1082 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... Moss television transmitter, which came into operation on October 12, is the highest and most powerful of its kind in the world. There is also a standby aerial on a 150-ft. mast (seen on the right of the main mast) with its own controls (below). Though ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

SCHOOL FOR LOVE: THE ROUGH AND THE SMOOTH; EDWARDIAN SCRAPBOOK; OCCUPATION

... , in fact stretching it to include the nineties and to last till the First World War released the social revolution, Mr. Gore's Edwardian Scrapbook promises only a scrapbook, an old screen with old prints and old cuttings pasted upon it at every angle ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1580 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review