... Voice and Speech in the Theatre. By J. Clifford Turner. (Pitman, 20s.) Perfection in stage diction is. or should be, one of the aims of the student actor, and a volume such as this, which genuinely tries to help him to achieve that particular pin nacle, should be among the most used possessions of anyone whose eyes are on the theatrical horizon. Voice and Speech is essentially a practical book ...

... Book Review T. D. Richardson's latest book. Ice Skating which is published by B. T. Batsford. Ltd. at 42s., traces the origins and turbulent progress of the sport, which began among the Scandinavians and Germans and not. as so many good things, with the Greeks and Romans, who, in fact, had no terms in their languages to express skates or skating. Captain Richardson, an N.S.A. gold ...

... Despite the title, Ventriloquism for Boys and Girls, this book is by no means confined to the younger generation, as it contains a wealth of information for all ventriloquists. k is written by Douglas Houlden, AIMC. well bound and printed on art paper, with 20 diagrams and various photographs. The contents includc chapters on producing the distant voice, how to make and manipulate the doll, ...

... Greater TV Advertising Two prominent economists have been examining the situation in Advertising in a Free Society by Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon. published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. Their view is that TV advertising will grow; that the increase will be at the expense of any signifi cant growth in the press. One factor would tip the balance even more sharply against the ...

... How ITV Pays For Itself Books And earns a huge profit as well! DY the time ITV celebrates its fourth birthday next Septem ber. its programmes will probably be seen in 7.7 million homes made up of 26.5 million viewers. Currently, homes with a choice of programmes use their sets for an average of 34 to 4 hours a day. round the year, and devote 2} to 3 hours to ITV programmes. But will this ...

... IT WAS A RATHER SOMBRE THEATRE IN THE GAY TWENTIES PERHAPS because a few uncommonly brilliant and provocative personalities, such as Noel Coward. Gertrude Lawrence and Tallulah Bankhead. began to shine in the West End during the Nineteen-Twenties. and the lighter side of the stage was more glamorous than ever it has been since, we think of the Twenties in the theatre as being packed with ...

... Has Swinson still something to say? 1 WRITING FOR TELEVISION by Arthur Swinson i Adam Charles Black. 2nd edition. 16/. TPHE second edition of a book must be a mark of success. s Since the first edition of Writing For Tele- E vision appeared five years ago, TV in this 1 country has developed enormously. Has Arthur Swinson, 1 one of our best known 2 playwrights still some- 1 thing useful to ...

... Intam Commercial TV Data Book PURPOSE of the Intam Commercial Television Data Book is to supply accurate knowledge of available facilities and scope in the expanding industry--and this it has done. Prepared by Infam Limited, the International Division of the London Press Exchange organi sation, uli 271 pages of the new 1960 edition have been devoted to 39 countries with com mercial TV services ...

... The ABC of Film and TV Working Terms has been published by The Focal Press. 0 Compiled by Oswald Skilbeck the book contains in its 157 pages a comprehensive dictionary of working words currently used in British film and TV studios. 91 1 should prove invaluable to all those working in the Industry. ...

... BOOK REVIEW MANY of TV's most successful writers have made contributions in a new book just published by Michael Joseph called The Television Playwright (Price 50 shillings). I he price is small tor such an interesting work contain ing ten plays by ten authors; Willis Hall, Ken Hughes, Nigel Kneale, Leo Lehman, Iain MacCormick, Elaine Morgan. Colin Morris, John Mortimer, Michael Voysey and ...

... One can learn from just perus ing the drawings of Zworykin's iconoscope and comparing it with the later image orthicon. As a lecturer on the subject of TV, inter alia, I approve, wholeheartedly, their method of approach and I agree with their explanations of what is a complex subject. Be he actor or advertising agent. I think the reader cannot help learning, and understanding those things in ...

... You'll get an insight into American TL from this TV Medium Rare, by Ernie Kovacs. (Transworld Pub lishers, 316 pp, 8vo.. 3/6). HHHERE have been one or M. two novels about British and American TV Morgan's The Great Man, Barker's The Golden Gimmick, and Prior's The One-Eyed Monster, with action varying front studio to office. Mr. Kovacs sets a great part of his action in the studio itself, and ...