... philoso phises in an arbour to our great content. Add Marie Lohr (the author could have expanded this part) Basil Radford, speaking for the cricket and the Home Guard of 1804 and George Rose, who spends the evening, a cherub aloft, up a tree and there is ...

... picture remains sharp and clear that of an Australian Commando patrol in the green jungle of New Guinea. Mr, Hungerford air not speak with the tongue of angels, but tie truth lies within him and will not be denied. U-BOAT 977, by Heinz Shaeffer (Will in Kimber ...

... Avon) is directed by Glen Byam Shaw. That means it is as sensible a production as we are likely to have. But what of the speaking? Romeo must be heard, and here I cannot say that a visually fine revival succeeds. I don't mean that the artists are inaudible ...

... is no need to wait for the arrival of a beach-watcher or a policeman when an emergency arises. White, Wild and Race Horses Speaking of the sea, there is a new, pleasant little anthology. In Praise of the Sea (F. Muller as. 6d.), which has been put together ...

... Portia, at her best in the trial scene. It is not her part, but she has a natural grace of movement and can speak verse naturally. The speaking of the verse was the chief fault of an otherwise admirable production by Mr. Glen Byam Shaw. The young actors ...

... form of a bed ridden child who addresses her father (another American, North this time, and younger), as Sir Lancelot, and speaks of polio as a wicked spell. For her sake Sir Lancelot (Forrest Tucker) goes round righting wrongs, and gets the hand of the ...

... disinterested) convictions of his own. He speaks, he (when necessary) argues, with a persistent gentleness born of vision. Is it not an irony of our age that, while our need of vision grows so vital, to speak as a man, as a visionary, may mean to more ...

... 12s. 6 d.) KATE TERRY GIELGUD An Autobiography. Max Reinhardt 21s.) Reviewed by G. B. Stern IT seems somewhat premature to speak of The Little Ark, by Jan de Hartog, as the best novel of 1954 (even supposing we read it at the end of 1953), but cer tainly ...

... when I ventured a mild expostulation over the goings-on in Hollywood's Forever Female. I re spect his opinion, because he speaks from bitter personal experience. But I can't help feeling that a plot based on this sort of behaviour might be given a rest ...

... gala performance of Tyrone Guthrie's production of Henry the Eighth at the Old Vic She will hear William Squire (as Cranmer) speaking the prophecy about the future Queen Elizabeth I. on her christening-day She shall be, to the happiness of England, A n aged ...

... can now speak his mind about other novelists and reviewers, especially the Sunday Top- Corner Boys and spoilt brats! I've never known a reviewer win anything except his review copies, sometimes not even those but quite a number manage to speak their minds ...

... compelling power through the man's scenes of harshness, temptation and final shame. Already Barbara Jefford's youth and fervour speak eloquently for Isabella with experience her command will grow. Harry Andrews deals gently with the disguised Duke, though one ...