... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This ...

... proprietor of the speak-easy and groom of the chambers to the amorous Count, is as volatile as Vesuvius. When Tomaso. his look-out man (Mr. J. W. Gilchrist), and Mario, the waiter (Mr. Marius Rogati), get together, the term, speak easy, takes on another ...

... forsaken mistress, appears to have consoled herself liberally enough for his desertion. Miss Vanne makes the utmost of her speaking and acting, even though the honest look on her face belies the cunning of her trade. Mr. O. B. Clarence, as Fondlewife, has ...

... seen this clever actress give a better AT THE PLAY Barbara Olwell Ursula Jeans), the bride who speaks plaintively of neglect, and Hester Marie Mackie), who speaks with a Scottish accent, even in America Ezra Hunniwell (Joseph Coyne) put so much spirit into ...

... them neatness and precision. For neat and precise they are. Quite early in his essay Mr. Gill remarks, casually, We as often speak truth without knowing it as falsehood without intending it. A man who can express that thought so concisely is in little danger ...

... Only once does the author strain our cre dulity, and that is in reprinting a first-rate leader from the Southbourne Gazette. Speaking as one who has made a lifelong study of the lesser provincial journals, I unhesitat ingly declare this article to be spurious ...

... qualities than he sometimes does. _ A nice, clean boy who someone resents an insult to his Has to Pay. dandng partner in a speak-easy and accidentally kills the aggressor has to pay the price according to the Criminal Code. Within the gaol where he serves ...

... his brains on climbing to the dizzy height of a Detective Ser geant, and his assumption of an alleged Oxford accent when speaking to anybody in society only has the effect of making the young Lord Lebanon, when calling at the Yard, ask Chief-Inspector ...

... have ever seen. The mixture of morality and the reverse is, in its quaint way, bewildering. As for the scene, an American speak-easy so peculiar, vivid, and boisterous, it is to us a terra incognita. We wonder how the charming Isabelle came there with ...

... French. Be hind the volumes there must De an enormous and wonderfully perfect organisation, of course, but of that I cannot speak. Fingering the new Baedeker Riviera and South-Eastern France (George Allen and Unwin, 15s.) turning its pages lovingly, I am ...

... a motion -picture star playing a role, and not a real bluejacket caught by a wavy camera that follows him about. Strictly speaking, the story is a comedy-drama, but where one leaves off and the other begins you have no idea. Its pace is so swift and furious ...

... their midst, and, what is more, an agent provocateur, which dual role is sustained by the Countess. He tips the wink, so to speak, to his fellow-conspirators not to keep a further appointment at the wine-shop because he suspects the lady. And the audience ...