... Rowland Prothero, addressed the Writers' Club the other evening, and told his audience that hearing his father and mother speak of Jane Eyre, he purchased with his scanty pocket money a copy of the book on his way to his first school. He was told by the ...

... conversa tional tone, its lack of ramt and violence, are just those which make it ineffective in these large surroundings. He speaks too rapidly, and a great part of what he says is lost, and for Covent Garden there would be necessary an entirely different ...

... war-widow, named Victoria (Miss Gladys Cooper) whose marital affection is inconstancy itself. Her first husband, of whom she speaks tenderly as Bill, is supposed to have been lost on the battlefield, and at the earliest opportunity she marries Fred, who ...

... where I sat next to him at a dinner the other day, what he calls his Christmas Message Keep cheerful. Cease to find fault. Speak well of the Homeland. Go steadily forward with confidence in God and the British Empire for the future of civilisation and ...

... few years ago, that it was better this impress should come from the hand of a producer a poet's friend or advocate, so to speak and not from the actor himself. This was perhaps the natural reaction from the performance which uore upon it, embossed with ...

... heroine, and Mr. Jack Hulliert as Prince Charming (of Denmark). This latest version of the melancholy Dane is of opinion, speaking as an actor, that the pay's the thing, whatever the play may he like. The juggling, tumbling liebla makes a melancholy ...

... him. I therefore write to tell you that he exists; that he is a Frenchman, that I know him very well, and that he knows and speaks English like an Englishman that he is a very well-read and educated man, and that he has no prejudice against or hatred for ...

... manly Csesar. Even in his most truculent mood, when he is protesting that nothing on earth can make him alter his mind, he speaks of the fact with polite regret as if it were a personal trait, the existence of which no one deplores more than himself. When ...

... man beneath the actor, but there seems to be an absence of attempt, even, to show anything but the elocutionist. Mr. Ainley speaks the words as though he left them to make their own impression, without their getting any help from him except a clear enunciation ...

... with some of Arthur John's story, and tells us that he will narrate it for our benefit. But, in the happy belief that actions speak louder than words, he pretends to go Illustrated by M ACM ICH AEL LONDON NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS continued into a trance and ...

... others being there, he could not laugh aloud), as he watched the poison working. Mr. Bourchier is one of the fevv who can speak .Shakespeare's verse as if it were his own language and the utterance of his own thoughts, and yet not forget, or let us forget ...

... how Mr. Jones is going to extricate himself from his by-paths and get back to his theme without a wrench that will, so to speak, stop his engine. But he succeeds invariably and skilfully and with no apparent effort. Mr. Jones's style is as good as one ...