Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News Chronicle's Alan Dent wrote: "The emotion this great piece of acting evoked in this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...
...even the Morning Telegraph had failed to report this little idiosyncrasy of Mahout's. Anyhow, the crowd was busy counting its chickens. The New York students, who love all favorites, were enraptured: here was a stake horse, with Arcaro up, out for a gallop; any price was a good one. They sent $140,000 into the machines, backing Mahout down to 1-4, then sat back to await the obvious...
Ruinists v. Restorationists. All this proceeded in discreet secrecy until, a month ago, the Yorkshire Post smelled out the story and the London Times, the London Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian picked it up. From then on, premature publicity and debate have flooded the letters columns of Britain's more sedate journals. The letters are about evenly for & against the restoration. All the opposition has come from ruin lovers who feel that any attempt to restore the abbey will deface its hoary beauty. The Office of Works, which must approve the plan, puts the chances of approval...
...tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said simply: "We have seen the birth of a great tragic actress...
Said London's conservative Daily Telegraph editorially (after quoting Wallace on the necessity of convincing Russia that the Americans are not out to save the British Empire): "Bees in bonnets have seldom buzzed louder. To the British reader, who may well be bewildered at such language from a minister of the power with which we have the closest relations at the present time, it is worth explaining that Mr. Wallace is notoriously emotional and notoriously independent of many of his colleagues...