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...Carrie Hope Fletcher brings sparkle as both Charles II’s lusty mistress and the jewel-keeper’s sullen daughter....
...Literary figures including Charles Dickens, AA Milne and Kingsley Amis have been members, as well as numerous artists, politicians and businessmen....
...The company’s 1980 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby was one of its great successes....
...Like Mai, he glided through the upper echelons of society, befriending figures such as Samuel Johnson, the statesman Edmund Burke and the actor David Garrick....
...The newspaper, and in particular its columnist and former editor Charles Moore, were passionate supporters of Paterson....
...The first theatre on the site in 1663 was one of the original “Patent” theatres licensed by King Charles II after the Restoration to put on “spoken drama”, as opposed to the broader comedies, melodramas...
...furore there have been those teensy moments that a diversity champion might see as an opportunity for learnings about unconscious bias and misfiring humour — such as the British-Indian polo friend Prince Charles...
...This was probably because Charles Edwards, who played deputy chief whip Bernard “Jack” Weatherill, is almost incapable of not radiating integrity....
...SH shakespeareinlove.com, 0844 482 5141, booking to April 18 The Scottsboro Boys, Garrick Theatre, London A challenging but rewarding outing....
...the ground-floor shops, sometimes a more cerebral and convivial note was struck by the fashionable lodgers and their guests: James Boswell held brilliant literary soirées with Dr Johnson, the actor David Garrick...
...“We found letters from [John] Garrick, [Henry] Irving and [Charles] Dickens. Dickens was complaining about the bill.”...
...Unlike The Garrick Club, which attracts thespians, and the Turf Club, which is popular with racing enthusiasts, Buck’s has no obvious constituency....
...When I joined the BBC, one of the sharpest intellects around was Charles Wheeler. He took no nonsense from anyone, including the BBC itself. How physically fit are you?...
...Meanwhile, I’ve been going the other direction, talking with ever more strangulated vowels until I was recently told that I sounded like Prince Charles....
...Violinist Chris Garrick expanded the delicacy of Ellington’s “Mood Indigo”, vocalist Elaine Delmar added sensuous wit to “Honeysuckle Rose”....
...I might find it a bit of a stuffy ethic, but one does like the Garrick for its great tradition.”...
...Olivier was the last of the great actor-managers in the tradition of Kean, Garrick and Irving....
...He lunched guests at the Garrick Club (women were taken to the Lansdowne) and walked them around the BBC’s Gramophone Library before the programme; he wanted them to feel comfortable....
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