Punch, Volume 270Punch Publications Limited, 1976 - English wit and humor |
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... play in its present Haymarket revival half a century later one is hard pressed to alter a word of his verdict . Of all Lonsdale's plays this is perhaps the most curious : perched somewhere midway between comedy and farce , and ...
... play in its present Haymarket revival half a century later one is hard pressed to alter a word of his verdict . Of all Lonsdale's plays this is perhaps the most curious : perched somewhere midway between comedy and farce , and ...
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... play , Things That Go Bump In The Night , set it in a bomb - shelter , put it on Broadway , and it bombed . Partly , he wasn't much good . He'd have a scene in which husband flings a drink in wife's face , then a stage instruction to ...
... play , Things That Go Bump In The Night , set it in a bomb - shelter , put it on Broadway , and it bombed . Partly , he wasn't much good . He'd have a scene in which husband flings a drink in wife's face , then a stage instruction to ...
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... play's greatness , or even of its adequacy , is whether or not it can survive its own musical : Pygmalion , for example , still works as a play ( viz last year's Rigg - McCowen revival ) even though My Fair Lady is this month being ...
... play's greatness , or even of its adequacy , is whether or not it can survive its own musical : Pygmalion , for example , still works as a play ( viz last year's Rigg - McCowen revival ) even though My Fair Lady is this month being ...
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