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OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: PANTOMIME OR OPERA?

... is individual, and the effect of what he does and says is irresistible with the impression that if he were to speak out all that he couid speak out- he would be over whelming. He is a marvellous Widow Twankey. His part throughout realistically like a woman ...

at the theatre

... have reacted in diametrically opposite ways. There are those who have taken deep de light in the excellence of its verse-speaking: and there are those also who have found this very excellence to be a weariness and a bore. So far as I am concerned, Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 788 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

LATE PANTOMIME REVIEWS: TUNBRIDGE WELLS

... vear-old Avril Ticehurst. playing her first professional part as Red Riding Hood, steals the show whenever she appears. She speaks her lines and stngs her songs with confidence and charm so much so that many of the young audience are relieved when the principal ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 17 | Tags: review 

AN AMERICAN FARCICAL COMEDY

... The Americans are not only invading Cuba, but, theatrically speaking, England as well. The number of playhouses given up to American plays or American companies is daily growing. Strictly speaking, it is not an American company that is engaged in the re ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1898
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 293 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Adventure in Alsace-Lorraine

... le to hark back on the dif ferences which separate German-speaking Alsace from the German-speaking countries on the other side of the Rhine. It does not matter that this is a German -speaking land and that the tie of language is supposed to be a most ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

Dishing the critics

... source of inspira tion, and it will speak to you in its own language, the language of sculpture. What it says to each individual will vary and may have little resemblance to what he wants it to say, but it will speak with force to all but the mentally ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 51 | Tags: Review 

IL BACIO

... picture tells a story for itself, and this and its essentially national colour have made it popular in Italy. No one thinks of speaking of it as H Bacio di Borneo e Giutietta it is known simply as II Bacio the kiss. ...

Othello

... Othello, which is not his part. He looks well and no doubt feels the passions of the man he cannot yet communicate them. His speaking in the earlier scenes is tight-lipped, spasmodic. It is not until he prepares to strangle Desdemona that Mr. Quayle suddenly ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

More Play Reviews: Mud

... Theatre Company have just launched the first in a series of English-speaking productions at the Jariateatern in Stockholm. In this scene from Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking are NEIL FRANCE and MAGGIE RYDER. The coproducer was Barrie Stacey and ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 20 | Tags: review 

IN THE RING

... delightful Viennese soprano, gives Sunday's r celebrity concert. On Tuesday The Conductor Speaks, in the person of Karl Rankl, former chief at Covent Garden. Speaking Personally on Monday is the wife of another conductor, Sir Hamilton Harty. Older opera-goers ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

Music and. the Piano

... (she is speaking of a former period before the piano as we know it was invented), she complains that the violin, without the rules of harmony, might elaborate the most complicated passages, hut as it could not he accompanied it failed to speak. The passage ...

Stranger Come Home

... Shirer. (Robert Hale 12s. 6d.) The proper study The proper study of mankind may still be man all right, but, fictionally speaking, I suggest that it is now not man in conflict with himself (how is Tom managing his schizophrenia or man in relation to his ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review