Miles Malleson (1888-1969) is probably best known to cinemagoers as a character actor in cameo roles in British films. His most memorable performances were in Ealing Comedy’s Kind Hearts and Coronets ...
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For those who like a good ghost story Henry James’s chilling novella, published in 1898, is one of the very best. Oscar Wilde was greatly impressed by it and thought it “the most wonderful, lurid, poi ...
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY has a special place in Royal Ballet’s collective heart. It was this ballet, which re-opened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II. Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann sta ...
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SALOME, Oscar Wilde’s pseudo-biblical shocker, based on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, was written in French in Paris in 1890, under the heady influence of Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Mallarme, Mor ...
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