... match her very moving performance. The play provides, among other things, a foretaste of how this finely tem pered young actress may develop, given modern roles in the same class as her recent Ophelia. It also provides an alert and topical picture of ...

... Frozen with horror, she just stood there, letting the phone ring on and on. In desperation, the stage director sent on the actress who was playing the maid, with instructions to pick up the snake. She went bravely on and snatched up the reptile.' But she ...

... Dresdel's Margery Battle, the Huffy- headed, frivolous wife who thinks that her middle -name is culture. Miss Dresdel is an actress of emphatic style. She follows Keats's advice to load every rift with ore. She decorates the simplest statement in all her ...

... impression that its artistic beauty would be sharper if it were shorter still. Whatever the wider qualities of this new young actress may or may not prove to be, Victoria Hopper exactly fits herself to Martine. Her reserves and -watchful undertones finely ...

... his trade A thief. You know what I mean. What does, he live on Beer. After that counsel retired in despair. She was an actress, with a perfect accent but Cockney antecedents, and one day obtained a part at a film studio and was handed the usual que ...

... Alan Melville has adapted it back into English. It has now been put on the stage with the leading part played by a French actress who never appears in France, and its success is complete. The central situation of the play is designed to put the heroine ...

... tarnished, there is obviously good stage entertainment, provided that all the puppets are fairly lively on the wire and that the actress playing the minx plays her with devil and charm. All the puppets are, I think, lively enough, and there is no doubt, whatever ...

... Coleridge called a happy valiancy of style, seems to have spared little thought for the difficulties of his actors. How is any actress to embody a woman whose variety is infinite and whom all things become the fascination that continues to enchant while it ...

... that the stand-in did not comprehend French or music without words There may be some thing to be said, also, for the French actress who murmured, amused and gently com miserative M. le censeur est peut-etre un pen naif ...

... critical colleagues who, in their naive amiability of spirit, lose all sense of proportion when a comparatively little-known actress like Claire Bloom or to go back somewhat in history, Jessie Royce Landis or Heather Stannard or Eileen Herlie at the time ...

... you look round at the planners) how obvious. Gift Italian women have been given the vote, like those fascinating little actresses you hear lunching at the Ivy (the late Baldwin Govern ment is said by its enemies to bear the responsibility for that gift) ...

... Marion Lome show, without bothering to give the show a name. We know what to expect and we get it, for in her own line this actress is inimitable. Her duel of wits with Mr. Godfrey Tearle is straight-comedy acting at its best. The timing of these two is ...