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... over the world, and that they want the same things. They want to live in their own countries in their own way and have something to say about the way they are governed. They want to stop having to go to war every twenty years and if in the world we live ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1883 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A Token Re-Cap

... the title suggests, this is essentially a personal scrapbook which gives a very revealing and instruc tive impression of the author's outlook on the game and the pleasure and satis faction he derives from it. Throughout his career Henry Cotton has progressively ...

Wife to Mr. Shaw

... job, but as second best this provides a nice read for a hot bath. Denton Welch, a Selection from His Published Work, selected by Jocelyn Brooke is a scrapbook of work by a young artist and writer who died in 1948, 13 years after a bicycle accident that ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1963
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 49 | 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 

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 

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 

A LITERARY LETTER: St. George's Day in London

... Series. It consists of some finely-printed books issued in a cheap form in paper covers. The first is The Life of St. George from Caxton's translation of The Golden Legend. Another is Sir Thomas Browne On Dreams, while others are to be The Dream Children ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1844 | Page: 26 | 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 

THE BOOK PUBLIC IS READING MORE--AND BUYING MORE

... imaginary tale. Professional craftsmen of all sorts, from foreign correspondents to successful dramatists, from best-selling novelists to society ladies, have been moved to record their experiences from the cradle onwards. A review of the past year will ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2767 | Page: 36 | 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 

Books

... 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