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He successfully combined theatre work with a career at the London department store, Fortnum and Mason, where he was head designer, and for which he devised the clock that became the shop's symbol.  Sutcliffe was known for the spectacular and amusing scenery and costumes that he created for revue, musicals and pantomimes, but he also designed the classics for the Old Vic Company, creating sets and costumes for <i>The Way of the World</i> (1948), <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i> (1949) and <i>Julius Caesar</i> (1958). \r\n\r\nThe production of <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i>, directed by Hugh Hunt, charmed reviewers. R.D. Smith, writing in the <i>New Statesman</i> (29 October 1949), commented that Hunt 'refutes those many scholars and critics who have condescended to this early comedy: he reveals not an outmoded private joke, fit only for donnish crossword diligence or undergraduate-producer exhibitionism, but a witty, satiric, hilarious, well-shaped, warm, exciting, human piece of theatre.' Sutcliffe based his designs on the miniatures of Nicholas Hillyard and Isaac Oliver. In his book <i>Shakespeare in the Theatre</i> (1978) Richard David cited the production as an example of design which ‘can positively help the realisation of some of Shakespeare’s effects by instantly creating a mood or striking a keynote that Shakespeare himself is at pains to establish’. The cast was led by Michael Redgrave as Berowne, with Diana Churchill as Rosaline and Michael Aldridge as the King of Navarre. The Princess of France was played by Angela Baddeley.\n\r\n\n\n\n","physicalDescription":"Costume design for the Princess of France. Full length female figure in a dress in Elizabethan style with a gold bodice, sleeves and hanging sleeves and a pale yellow skirt, with strings of pearls at the neck and a wide ruff. 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