... silver lake-- Oliver Messel's décor is like that, so cool and stylish-- is no more plain than it is tuppence coloured. It speaks joyously, but m a classical whisper, there is no I room here for the brazen or the obvious, I and in and out of the pattern ...

... arranged it into a sheaf as shapely as one could wish. No one has ever been presented as vividly as Johnson his conversation speaks for him, its resonance echoes down the ages. But, though Reynolds has shown us how he looked, and Boswell and others have ...

... compiled under official auspices, which means, presumably, that it is a morsel of propaganda issued by the L.G.O.C., or, to speak more brutally, nothing but a disguised advertise ment. But there are writers-- journalists, for instance-- who are at their ...

... tourist. The brick bulk of Albi Cathedral seen against the moon, he says, hit the soul like a hammer and in a vivid passage he speaks of vast, cold Byzantine cathedrals where no one seemed to enter except, at its hour, which is worth waiting for, the single ...

... their light shine in the glow of Miss Gertrude Law rence's wonderful talent. Thus Mr. Austin Trevor, an ideal impre sario who speaks ideal French Miss May Agate Mr. Morton Selten, and Mr. Walter Crisham, a most promising juvenile, who plays the plumber unaffected ...

... novelist with a scientific bias, he likes to look on life as a biological experiment. While psychologists speak the language of Freud, Mr. Wells speaks the language of the laboratory. The grandfather of the hero of The Bulpington of Blup (Hutchinson. 8s. ...

... Wells loves to tilt. There is, by the way, a curious error in the account of Theodore's unheroic war experiences. Mr. Wells speaks of B and D Sections of a platoon. I admit that Captain Blup-Bulpington was a law unto himself. But was his regiment Continued ...

... more spontaneity into it if she had taken less pains with the psychological processes of her characters and let their actions speak for them. This is an important point when you con sider the length of her book, which covers four generations, from great- ...

... Madeleine Lambert played a Franco- English part as well as a dozen French-speaking English girls could have done it. It has been proved that one can be all-British and yet speak French without a soupgon of an accent. PLAYS YOU MUST SEE. RICHARD OF BORDEAUX ...

... are horrid scoundrels. The crux is the word representative. One of Miss Ramsay's Highland trio is the Marquess of Argyll. Speaking as a member of Glengarry's clan, I flatly refuse to admit that Argyll, or any member of Clan Camp bell, is a representative ...

... admirable epigram that the public are tired of news they want to know what 's happened. Moral for young journalists always speak the truth, and don't play around with your boss's favourite Folly girl. You can send a blonde to Siberia, but you can't keep ...

... likely sus pect for the role of King- Murderer. It is a relief to find that the chief characters speak intelligible English, and only the policemen speak American. The police, and even his own friends, were very slow to fathom the reasons for Chester ...