"plain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1884 British author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an essay in tribute of toy theater's tiny grandeur entitled "Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured."
- Penny Plain (1920)
- Penny Plain (1952)
- Penny Plain (1967)
- The revue and the trio were highly successful, and Lister commissioned further work from the pair for his next production, Penny Plain (1951).
- I have been myself attempting for some time past to complete a play in a small toy theatre, the sort of toy theatre that used to be called Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured; only that I drew and coloured the figures and scenes myself.
- It was first performed in the revue Oranges and Lemons (1948) and revived in Penny Plain (1951).
- In 2011-12, he did an extensive Canadian tour of his new play, an apocalyptic comedy, Penny Plain.
- He collaborated from 1942 with Joyce Grenfell for her West End revues (including Tuppence Coloured and Penny Plain) and her one-woman shows.
- Our real one, of course, was a Bonzo postcard, but I told Antony a fairy tale about the Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured saying.
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