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... momentarily to such Continued, on page 64) On left Derek Walker-Smith Books Continued from page 43) a break, we have buckled-to immediately in an effort to fashion a better world for posterity. In all the welter of reconstruction now under weigh, none is more ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1847 | Page: 66 | 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 

TROTTIE TRUE: THE GAY EDWARDIAN: Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon Produce Another Delightful Story in Their ..

... t part of these books, which are more like verbal scrap-books than anything else. In them you will find reminiscences, snatches of song, references to the picture postcards which in a real scrap-book would be stuck to the pages, anecdotes and countless ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1296 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

CESARE BORGIA AND RUDOLF HESS: Books About Two Totalitarians and Other New Publications Briefly Reviewed

... AND RUDOLF HESS Books About Two Totalitarian* and Other New Publications Briefly Reviewed Cesare Borgia, known to all the world as a sinister, Machiavellian figure who stopped at nothing in the achievement of his ambitions, whose indifference to human ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

TWO NOVELISTS WITH A PENCHANT FOR EXACTITUDE: The Big Sky and Ruth Middleton Both Deserve to be Best-Sellers

... expert embryologist. From the miracle of childbirth Louis Zara traces the first fourteen years in the life of Ruth Middle- ton. He takes her through the years of childhood to the point where, physically adult, she faces the world of maturity. It is a ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 793 | Page: 30 | 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 

Subject: Hamlet

... {Continued on page 628 From the Editor This is. as Elizabeth Bowen explains on the adjoining page the last article she will write for us on books. Readers will I know wish me to say on their behalf how very sorry they are at her departure from these pages. I ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1913 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

GAUGUIN AND MANET: Two Once-reviled Artists of Genius

... business in Mr. Graves' company. From the same publishing house, but in rather different vein, is Laurence Scarfe's ROME (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.). The author, a member of the younger generation of artists, has produced a scrapbook of impressions of the Eternal ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Mielche descended m a diving bell of his own designing to the palace of the Mermaid Queen a fairy forest, a landscape from another world, a Walt Disney fantasia, and saw other entrancing sights, including a Cuban cock-fight After You, Columbus (Hodge, ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1398 | Page: 86 | Tags: Review 

SOME VARIED, RURAL EXCURSIONS

... SOME VARIED, RURAL EXCURSIONS Selections from Beach Thomas and from A. G. Street; Miss Rider Haggard's A Country Scrap-Book -By VERNON FANE FOR a great many of us, one of the joys of Sunday morning is reading a particular half-column of graceful prose ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1571 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS ON LONDON, THE R.A.F. AND THE LAW: H. V. Morton's In Search of London Makes Its Appearance at an ..

... VERNON FANE FROM all over the world-- or so we confidently hope-- people will be coming to London this summer, and to greet them, besides the Festival and the newly- flowered face of London, will be a number of books and histories and guides. From these they ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1681 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

A CARDINAL AMONG THE NOVELISTS: Some Important New Works of Fiction Appearing in the Autumn Lists

... enchanting novel, and it has been just what I would have expected from Mr. Charles Morgan. A BREEZE OF MORNING (Macmillan. ios. 6d.) is the story, slight from one point of view, profound from another, of a schoolboy's love and discernment, both of them on ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1664 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review