Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Maske in Blau: Rudolf Podany

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  This ceramic lady stared down at me, from above my piano, in the early 1950s.  I found her a bit off-putting. My mother loathed her. Vater...
Friday, January 12, 2024

The musical Haddocks of Leeds ...

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  The name Haddock in C19th Leeds was synonomous not only with the fishmarket but with music. Many is the time I have written the biography ...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The Best 'Broadway' Book in Decades

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  Since this is 11 January 2024, it's not much chop to say this is my 'Book of the Year' I'll just say ... THE BEST BROADWAY...
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Monday, January 8, 2024

The ones you love ... and grand food.

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  We don't lunch out often out very often in New Zealand. Truthfully, Wendy's home cooking is heaps better than what you get in most...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Splash! The greatest woman swimmer in the world

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  This particularly well-developed lass turned up on my desk yesterday.  Chorus girl, I thought, photographed in Paris. A bit come hitherish...
Friday, January 5, 2024

Suddenly Seymour: 'the Lancashire Caruso'

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  Here we go again. I'd never seen a portrait of Seymour Jackson, so when the sketch, and then the obituary photo, below turned up, I th...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

W H LINGARD: a theatrical star for half a century

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  This morning, this nice portrait turned up on my screen. 'Horace Lingard' has been written about quite a lot since I first attempe...
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