• Sir Harold Hobson CBE, (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author. Hobson was born in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham then in...
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    after eight performances but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later...
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    Paris, the first foreign company to be given that honour. The critic Harold Hobson wrote that Richardson and Olivier quickly "made the Old Vic the most...
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    reviews of Look Back in Anger were deeply negative. Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson were among the few critics to praise it, and they now are regarded among...
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  • Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title taken from the popular expression, Hobson's choice—meaning no choice at all (from Thomas Hobson...
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    News, called her "an embarrassing deb who has had too much gin".) And Harold Hobson, in The Sunday Times, was overcome. Her first film followed, Beau Brummell...
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    Rosemary Harris as Yelena, and Olivier's wife Joan Plowright as Sonya. Harold Hobson of The Sunday Times described the Chichester production as "the admitted...
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    vivacity, simplicity and gusts of unpredictable Eastern temperament." Harold Hobson of the Sunday Times said, "Tsai Chin who has cool clear beauty and considerable...
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    negative reviews, but the tide turned with positive reactions from Harold Hobson in The Sunday Times and, later, Kenneth Tynan. After the showing in...
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  • booked out for its limited run at the Arts Theatre and well reviewed by Harold Hobson, the prevailing West End theatre critic of the time. A new stage version...
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  • he invited one of the leading critics of the time, Harold Hobson, to the performance. He told Hobson that he would be "wanting in his duties" to ignore...
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    original stage production, a performance which was lauded by drama critic Harold Hobson. In 1958 King appeared as the Kiowa Kid/Nevada Jones on the TV Western...
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  • [version]. I wasn't convinced by me". The respected theatre critic Harold Hobson wrote of Brett's portrayal that "the incestuous bed was the centre of...
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  • Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars...
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    the title role in at least six productions. His Othello was called by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time", continuing:...
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    The Daily Telegraph found the play "unusually entertaining", while Harold Hobson of The Sunday Times was still peeved at Bergman for playing yet another...
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    Europe, including the title role in at least six productions of Othello. Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times praised Marshall’s portrayal as "the best...
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  • in Canterbury Tales at the Phoenix Theatre as The Clerk of Oxford. Harold Hobson, The Times critic said, "He was a breath of fresh air in the West-End"...
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  • to watch or that he is brilliant at displaying cuckolded curiosity." Harold Hobson, the drama critic, thought that failing to enjoy the play was "not actually...
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    Paris, the first foreign company to be given that honour. The critic Harold Hobson wrote that Richardson and Olivier quickly "made the Old Vic the most...
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  • Roland R. Harrison, editor Joseph C. Harsch, CBE, longtime reporter Sir Harold Hobson, longtime drama critic Mary J. Hornaday, vice president of the Overseas...
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  • Frank Harold Hobson, MC (8 October 1894 – 1951) was a British flying ace of the First World War, credited with 15 aerial victories. Hobson was born in...
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  • instruments" and "Mr Smith scrubbing away is not to be seen or heard". Harold Hobson wrote positively of the play in his review for The Sunday Times published...
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    the audience Impresario White Musical flaw Difficulty overcome By Sir Harold Hobson Special to The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor...
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  • House: "Captain Carvallo"". The Manchester Guardian. 27 June 1950. p. 5. Harold Hobson (27 October 1951). "Soldier-Poet in Portrayal; Climax Misses: Friendly...
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  • The Birthday Party (play) (category Plays by Harold Pinter)
    only eight performances. The weekend after it had already closed, Harold Hobson's belated rave review, "The Screw Turns Again", appeared in The Sunday...
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  • Sunday Times arts columnist Kenneth Pearson, Sunday Times theatre critic Harold Hobson, and National Union of Students (United Kingdom) president Frank Copplestone...
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  • Empire Games Harold Hobson (1904–1992), English drama critic and author Henry Hobson (1891–1983), American Episcopal bishop Howard Hobson (1903–1991),...
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  • Times, thought Le Mesurier had played the role extraordinarily well; Harold Hobson, writing in The Sunday Times, thought that "the trouble with Mr. John...
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  • Glenville, with sets by Michael Weight. It opened to good reviews; Harold Hobson called the second play in the double-bill, "one of Rattigan's masterpieces...
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