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...Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party, San Francisco The Great Dickens Christmas Fair was inaugurated in 1970 in San Francisco’s waterside Embarcadero district by Californian dramatists Ron and Phyllis...
...Certainly, the fabrics of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher merited such treatment....
...Alas, not even a flinty performance by Phyllis Logan, a world away from her Downton Abbey housekeeper persona, can make these 95 minutes compelling....
...The American comedian Phyllis Diller is credited with the saying: “Always be nice to your children, because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”...
...“Paroxysms”, “Comrades”, “Convocation of Worms”, “Ada and Phyllis”, “Glorified sheep-dips”, “The Emperor Diocletian”, “lobster picks” and “polonium in my sushi”....
...An Enid Blytonesque feel results, and the 1940s-dressing-up-trunk air of Stewart Charlesworth and Jean Gray’s costumes blends well with the dilapidated splendour of this former Victorian music hall....
...The servants’ hall’s one really bad apple, the first footman Thomas (Rob James-Collier), is nevertheless a clear-eyed harbinger of a new time, berating his fellows for their dependence on the lives of the...
...Bobbie (Roberta), Phyllis and Peter are at the start the children of well-heeled Edwardian burghers....
...designed by Sir Charles Barry and the 18th century Piece Hall, where cloth trading was done....
...He named the aircraft the Silver Phyllis although it was not silver and he had no relatives called Phyllis. Apparently, the fact that it sounded like a venereal disease amused him....
...But it’s unthinkable that a politician of Obama’s background – his skills in the persuasive arts honed as a community organiser and political activist in Chicago; polished in the debating halls and lecture...
...All they knew is that finally they would be out of the Convention Center, a vast complex of halls, cafeterias and meeting rooms where finance ministers of the Americas had once conferenced in splendour....
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