... subtle a murderer as ever murdered and who leads her first of all to an exhibition of modern art and then, true to form (so to speak 1) to a nudist camp in the Chilterns. Needless to add, Mrs. Bradley proves that not only intuition, but also that infinite ...

... one. For not only does Mr. Macdonell insult the female sex, as typified by his correspon dent, all through the body, so to speak, of the letter, but he implants a particularly venomous sting in its tail. The reader comes to look forward to these vitriolic ...

... printed in Fox's most handsome sepia tone. The film is really an affair of two parallel love-stories. In each pair, roughly speaking, one partner is good and simple-hearted, the other bad but reformable. The first pair consists of the Hon. Tom Ransome (George ...

... with Pirandello, that the characters have a life apart from their author and can give a truer account of themselves when speaking in propria persona than when he is interpreting them. The most trivial conversation, moreover, holds a hint of drama, while ...

... old sake's sake. The writer does not want to write them, the audience does not want to hear them, the actor does not want to speak them. We put up with them as with old relations. They have, in short, degenerated into a funny old custom from the old funny ...

... the floor of the Senate House, getting in harH hnmp. truths, delighting the Press and the visitors' gallery. If he stops speaking or sits down for a moment, he is lost. In the end he wins his case, but faints from sheer exhaustion. The film is perhaps ...

... stream of incident flowing. And his point of view is, at any rate in part, made up for him by the necessity of being, so to speak, for ever on the move. It is all to his advantage if he can exhibit other people's points of view they can be made the sub ...

... washes up with a hose-pipe which is, as a matter of fact, an excellent way of washing up, if you have the apparatus. When he speaks, which is most of the time, it is at great length, with much verbal flourish, and on eternal issues. Sometimes he is entertaining ...

... others are pale, pleasant ghosts beside her. Miss Bergman is a Swedish actress, just twenty-two, making her ddbut in English-speaking pictures. She is tall, with something of Garbo's long- limbed ease, strong white teeth, and a look of Hep burn about the ...

... the sundry characters were intended to represent. But Mr. Robert Helpman (who is also a first-rate character-actor and can speak his lines with the best of 'em jp non-ballet productions) looked horribly evil which, I imagine, was his intention. Miss June ...

... it is on the whole a grim, sordid thing, not at all the sort of show to which Chevalier experts are accus tomed. Roughly speaking, it is what the French describe as a rontan policier. A number of young girls disappear, and the Paris police engage a d ...

... The Theatre: By Herbert Farjeon Lights Up! (Savoy) RE-ENTER Mr. Cochran. And about time, too. For-- speaking as a dramatic critic-- London isn't really London without him. And a war-- remembering the revues he put on during the last one-- isn't really ...