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... you read to the end because, if there are to be raptures and reconciliation, you simply have to be in at the death, so to speak, with cheers. And that is why Instead of the Thorn is likely to be popular. ...

... whose wife abets him in hushing-up the conse quences. Marjorie Booth lavishes fine writing on the situation. The earth, so to speak, is strewn with flowers. The doc tor and his wife were friends, nothing more but they were so truly friendly to each other ...

... one old waiter. The effect of there being an adequate staff on the premises could have been conveyed without adding to the speaking parts and consequently to the cost of production. Then, though it is midnight, and most of the guests have retired to their ...

... heroine to be engaged who will not spoil her beautiful appearance every time she opens her mouth, whether it is her own or her speaking substitute's mouth. We have a right to expect, if the Talkie is not to remain in the rlitr.h in which the silfnL film tuallnwc ...

... simply can't kill it, and even now Mr. A1 Jolson's more lachrymose efforts have a discon certing habit of popping up, so to speak, under your very nose. But to return to Mrs. Cheyney, who is such an attractive person that we shouldn't have left her even ...

... equally splendid boom engineered in the newspapers. There is a millionaire marchioness who speaks with a queer accent, and a Spanish Grandee (by marriage) who speaks like the American bohunk he is. And there are no fewer than forty Chestertonian sketches ...

... narrated in that commune voice of which I have been speaking. Just as- at-1 the talkies, one lias to watch the lips 'J players to discover which one is speaking, so do the majority of modern novelists speak with one voice. Of course, when they develop mannerisms ...

... Here and there the action is slowed down by explanatory conversations dealing with Stock Exchange affairs, and, generally speaking, the pace of later pro ductions has not yet been reached. But Mr. Rowland Lee has used his sound- effects with fine disc ...

... Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp Master of Masters. It might almost be the Psalmist speaking: I will refresh mine eyes, a last time, at the sun. But it is M. Romain Rolland speaking, and his actual sentence is: I will refresh my eyes, a last time, at the sun ...

... had his second slip moved to extra cover and his deep gully to deep backward point. To the student of cricket that passage speaks volumes it accounts for Kelleway's failure as a bowler last winter, and also, it ac counts for his successes in other years ...

... of the agony, not of one but of millions, standing impassive in marble to give its message to all wayfarers who pass it. It speaks to the uninformed, to the unimaginative, to the head-strong, and to the short-memoried folk who need a word of warning on ...