Punch, Volume 198Punch Publications Limited, 1940 - English wit and humor |
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Page 434
... play of such swift development there is no room for continual restatements of mutual feeling . When she came to drama- tise her novel Miss DAPHNE DU MAURIER had to choose between two different kinds of play , the kind which would take ...
... play of such swift development there is no room for continual restatements of mutual feeling . When she came to drama- tise her novel Miss DAPHNE DU MAURIER had to choose between two different kinds of play , the kind which would take ...
Page 492
... play it and others from Mr. NOVELLO'S bag are sung by a little team with good voices , Mr. NOVELLO being at the piano . The play is a wise - cracking comedy inclined to farce and is better put together than most . of its kind . That is ...
... play it and others from Mr. NOVELLO'S bag are sung by a little team with good voices , Mr. NOVELLO being at the piano . The play is a wise - cracking comedy inclined to farce and is better put together than most . of its kind . That is ...
Page 542
... Play " KING LEAR " ( OLD VIC ) IN one respect I do agree that we British are degenerate , and that is in swearing . Moved slowly to anger , we express ourselves with a paucity of in- vention of which , with our traditions , we should be ...
... Play " KING LEAR " ( OLD VIC ) IN one respect I do agree that we British are degenerate , and that is in swearing . Moved slowly to anger , we express ourselves with a paucity of in- vention of which , with our traditions , we should be ...
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