... Johannesburg used to be frequently mentioned in the columns of the ever-lamented Pinli 'U11. Of Cape wines I am incompetent to speak as my literary friends do not drink j them, always with the possible exception of Mr. Jonathan Cape. Of South African fruit ...

... solution of the evils it exposes. Lastly, it is quite short and easy to read. Bad housing and overcrowding are scandals which speak for themselves. The trouble is that hardly anybody listens. The world is unfortunately so full of evils that we are all prone ...

... glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome in the most poignant sense. Cleopatra at the time the play opens though I speak off the book -is in her forties, which, given the climate, means that her features were remembrancers of beauty rather than ...

... she was far from being in an embryo stage, and it speaks volumes for the thoroughness of the American studios if this intensive nursing was deemed necessary. Why, to inure her to an English-speaking life, manners, and colloqui alisms, she even secured ...

... Thorne Smith was of the school of Rabelais. But he was gradually climbing out of the cess-pool into the Mermaid Tavern, so to speak, and his last book, The Bishop's Jaegers (Barber ys. 6 d.), is delightfully free from the vulgarities which marred his early ...

... converse; they roar at each other after the manner of sea-lions I am perfectly familiar with the timbre of Mr. Leslie Banks' speaking voice, which is a pleasant and agreeable baritone in this film he is made to sound like a basso profundo singing Down Among ...

... the more appropriate pronoun here obediently adjusts the time-cycle of the lights accordingly. Even these are not, strictly speaking, new to London, for the system has been working quietly and efficiently, though without Marylebone's pre liminary prelude ...

... fond of their alma mater as I was of mine. Some, Miss Arnot Robertson, for instance, are definitely hostile. Technically speaking, I believe that corporations never die, though they sometimes fade away, and if they possess identities, these are vague ...

... first page to the last. The characters will lead lives in which happiness scarcely exists even as an aspiration. When they speak it will be in nervous exhaustion and irritation. They will subsist on tinned food, get drunk whenever their means allow it ...

... corrected, and will be in days to come, but the bridge between the mere picture and the actual person may never be spanned. While speaking of exaggeration perhaps the only fault, artistically, of this play is its old trick of depreciating all the other characters ...

... hardly time to show us how beautiful she looks in trousers before she is sent indoors again like a naughty girl, and when she speaks she has to make us laugh with sniffs and snorts and jerks to hide the poverty of the words. COR a time we watch with some ...

... suggestion of Romantic the lamp, no hint that she has learned how to Revival. write, as the lady in Shaw's play learned how to speak. On the other hand, the matter of her stories is full of queerness and eccentricity. She calls them Gothic, and so in a sense ...