... TAMING OF THE SHREW (Open Air Theatre) TIE that knows better how to I I tame a shrew, now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show. When Antony Eustrel speaks the lines under the floodlights at Regent's Park, we feel that no one can teach this Petruchio much ...

... Henry the Fifth the King says of Fluellen: There is much care and valour in this Welshman. Richard Burton might have been speaking of himself. The young Welsh actor, who appeared as Prince Hal in the two parts of Henry the Fourth, now presents the King ...

... Trapeze Odeon, Marble Arch Gina Lollobrigida, in spangles, speaks her own brand of English, breaks up friendship of aerialists Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Directed in France for an American com pany by Carol Reed, who has left only a faint imprint ...

... have reacted in diametrically opposite ways. There are those who have taken deep de light in the excellence of its verse-speaking: and there are those also who have found this very excellence to be a weariness and a bore. So far as I am concerned, Mr ...

... Othello, which is not his part. He looks well and no doubt feels the passions of the man he cannot yet communicate them. His speaking in the earlier scenes is tight-lipped, spasmodic. It is not until he prepares to strangle Desdemona that Mr. Quayle suddenly ...

... delightful Viennese soprano, gives Sunday's r celebrity concert. On Tuesday The Conductor Speaks, in the person of Karl Rankl, former chief at Covent Garden. Speaking Personally on Monday is the wife of another conductor, Sir Hamilton Harty. Older opera-goers ...

... Shirer. (Robert Hale 12s. 6d.) The proper study The proper study of mankind may still be man all right, but, fictionally speaking, I suggest that it is now not man in conflict with himself (how is Tom managing his schizophrenia or man in relation to his ...

... Birmingham Kepcw} This is a Richard unaffected, for one, by the Montague reading of the conscious artist in sorrow. Jack May speaks with 3 beautiful lucidity, and Douglas Seale shows again that, in this matter of producing the Shakespearean histories, he ...

... this one (I speak with as much keenness as if I was charging twopence a borrow) this one is I cast about for words to describe how good it is this one is good. (Now you see why reviewers write as they write. They could hardly write as they speak, could they ...

... Juliet Old Vic There is no need to say to John Neville, Wherefore art thou Romeo He was a natural choice for the part, and speaks it beautifully. Claire Bloom is a reasonable Juliet, Paul Rogers a resolute Mercutio, and Robert Helpmann's production excel ...

... theatre in spite of Michael Denison's production and the performance of Maxine Audley (from Stratford). I am sorry to have to speak of it in the past tense. ...

... them selves can give points to many a film-star in deportment and charm. Secret Conclave (Marble Arch Pavilion). English- speaking version of an Italian film about the life of the bare-footed peasant boy who eventually became Pope Pius X., and died full ...