Hints and tips:
...When Henry Morton Stanley stopped off on his way to look for Livingston, he was delighted....
...First came Picnic, a 1955 adaptation of the William Inge play about a small town atwitter over a ruggedly handsome visitor, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell....
...I’m not that interesting a person, Henry. I’m really boring. I read, and I walk the dog, and I make lemon drizzle.” She laughs. “I want to play other people!...
...European women were thus forbidden to eat artichokes and, when Catherine de’ Medici dared to dine on them in public and fainted after overindulging, the court of Henry II was scandalised....
...Regulars included Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian and the Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; the Freuds and Orwells lived nearby....
...It is time to draw in my final guest, who has so far held back — Rosalind Franklin, the scientist who took the crucial image of DNA’s double helix in 1952....
...Spangler sold the patent to leather-goods maker William Henry Hoover, who masterminded its modernisation....
...Moving to court, she became mistress to Henry Carey, the Lord Chamberlain (patron of Shakespeare’s troupe), 45 years her senior; he kept her in style, enabling her to pursue her artistic instincts....
...And there are some wonderful female characters in Shakespeare’s work, Rosalind, Portia, Viola, Cleopatra and Beatrice among them....
...You can see it in the undeservedly unknown 85-year-old Rosalind Fox Solomon, another of Model’s students, whose inspired photographs are among the exhibition’s highlights....
...Gold performed its role perfectly in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, writes Henry Sanderson, commodities correspondent....
...My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, by Henry Jaglom, edited by Peter Biskind, Metropolitan Books, RRP$28 British-born actor and director Jaglom taped his lunches...
...of Katherine by Henry in Henry V....
...In fact, many old-fashioned names are popular at the moment, such as Grace and Emily for girls and Oscar and Henry for boys....
...●I will be giving copies of Henry James’s Waistcoat (Stone Trough Books), a beautifully produced volume of 40 of the master’s letters – recently discovered by Rosalind Bleach in a chocolate box in a drawer...
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