Hints and tips:
...The index providers MSCI and FTSE Russell have both cut out Russian equities from their benchmarks, while BlackRock suspended all buying of Russian securities in its active and index funds in March....
...I loved talk shows — Mavis Nicholson, Russell Harty, Michael Aspel and Michael Parkinson.”...
...RBC Capital Markets hired Noël Brown as managing director in the healthcare investment banking group....
...B: Which TV programme is presented by Richie Driss and Lindsey Russell? C: Which colour comes first in the rainbow?...
...Nora’s debt shifts with the timeframe — a loan agreement, a credit card, a payday loan — as do her mannerisms (Amaka Okafor, calm and dignified; Natalie Klamar, anxious and twitchy; Anna Russell-Martin,...
...of Noël Coward’s comedy....
...benditlikebeckhamthemusical.co.uk, 0843 316 1082, booking to October 24 Death of a Salesman, Noël Coward Theatre, London Final week for Gregory Doran’s heartbreaking RSC production of Arthur Miller’s...
...almeida.co.uk, 020 7359 4404, runs to July 18 … Temple, Donmar Warehouse, London Simon Russell Beale is in superb form as the tormented dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in Steve Waters’ gripping, fictional...
...lyric.co.uk, 020 8741 6850, run extended to September 5 Death of a Salesman, Noël Coward Theatre, London Antony Sher and Harriet Walter are devastating as Willy Loman and his wife Linda in Gregory Doran...
...royalcourttheatre.com, 020 7565 5000, runs to July 11 Recommended Death of a Salesman, Noël Coward Theatre, London Antony Sher and Harriet Walter are both terrific as Willy Loman and his wife Linda in...
...donmarwarehouse.com, 0844 871 7624, now previewing, runs to July 25 Recommended Death of a Salesman, Noël Coward Theatre, London Antony Sher and Harriet Walter are terrific as Willy Loman and his wife...
...There is Simon Russell Beale and Mark Rylance. After that, one starts to struggle....
...Noël Amenc, chief executive of Edhec Scientific Beta, predicts: “The quality of the research underlying these new types of index, and thus the robustness of their records, will probably be the central issue...
...stjamestheatre.co.uk, 0844 264 2140, to August 9 … This Was a Man, Finborough Theatre, London We expect premieres at this enterprising little theatre but not of plays by Noël Coward....
...● Noël Luchena has moved to Threadneedle Investments as a sales director in Zurich from Credit Suisse....
...Simon Russell Beale knows that he is not just ludicrous when dragged up as Carmen Miranda or Marlene Dietrich, but a little implausible even in a tuxedo delivering a pastiche Noël Coward number....
...Noel Gallagher and Madonna are also fans. After these unexpected – and unpaid – endorsements the family-run business is experimenting with a social media campaign....
...(Russell’s best work, Three Kings, had the same multidimensional generosity of imagination.)...
...The Stone House building (as it was known) dates from 1857, and was built by Russell & Co, an American competitor to Jardine Matheson in the early opium trade....
...And in 2010 Alec Russell flew out to meet Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean prime minister. The menu read as follows: “Coke: US$1; Sprite: US$1; Return flight to Harare: £950.” Interview: priceless....
...Why take risks when you know that safe feel-good work – Alan Ayckbourn, Noël Coward, frolicsome Restoration drama – will pack the house?...
...My godmother said: “Do you know what Bertrand Russell said of happiness?” The assembled table waited. “It’s necessary to find balance in life.”...
...Sitting me at the tiller of a small craft, he would tilt his boater at a jaunty angle and tune up his Noël Coward medley....
...Simon Russell Beale enjoys himself as yesterday’s-man playwright Sidney Bruhl, with his patented delivery of Eeyoring out punchlines in such a low key that they just drop over the net....
...Portmeirion itself used to be something of a salon for London’s recuperating elite, hosting guests such as Noël Coward and Bertrand Russell....
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