... Redgrave craftily manipulates the Northumbrian accent used here, instead of the familiar stammer, as an interpretation of speaking thick. I am heretic enough to dis like Falstaff's sallies on the field of Shrewsbury and X have never wished more urgently ...

... self-dramatising, like many other young men, but his sorrow is real and he finds for it a poet's expression. Paul Scofield can speak the verse simply and beautifully. This is a direct statement of the part without over-emphasis on the Benson idea of Richard ...

... brings doom to Rosmersholm but she does not communicate it to us the secrets remain unshared, largely, I think though she speaks well because her range of English intonations is still limited. We have to look to the Rosmer, who is Robert Harris, grave ...

... hydrogen bomb have crept into this edition, of over 1,000 pages, of what has been called the standard reference book of English-speaking animal-owners in all parts of the world. The Dictionary is illus trated with 36 photographs and 326 diagrams. Cross-references ...

... has been done so well so many times during the last three decades that a new production only partially suc cessful (mixed speaking, beautiful costumes, dull set) is bound to disappoint. There is at least one fine comic performance Mark Dignam's prickly ...

... his major work. At the Cambridge, where the piece makes a long night indeed, much of the prose labours and not all of the speaking satisfies. Andre Huguenet's Hassan is direct and unremarkable Frederick Valk's Caliph was hard to hear at the premiere and ...

... Life becomes the First Choice of a fortnight in which, as the only new West End production staged for a run, it is-- so to speak-- returned unopposed. If the Bristol Old Vic's revival of The Two Gentlemen of Verona had been on for longer than a fortnight ...

... the form of a mystery man (James Mason) from the Eastern Sector. Mr. Mason wears a very foreign topcoat with a fur collar, speaks English with a German accent, and is clearly up to no good. Nevertheless, Miss Bloom falls in love with him, and as a result ...

... major function has been put in one sentence, The Central School of Speech and Drama exists to provide healthy and natural speaking in everyday life, on the plat form and on the stage. What could be better than that Think of the diction of Dame Peggy and ...

... of thing and many people, as well as critics to respect, do then Hugh Sinclair (on behalf of Scotland Yard), Walter Rilla (speaking for psychiatry), and Michael Sheplcy (Yard again) will help you to enjoy it. If you solve its puzzle, you 're a better man ...

... went into Allan Chappelow's trip with a British student party. But the written word goes one better. Helped by a Russian-speaking colleague, Mr. Chappelow really worked at seeing and learning everything possible. Any good host, he justly remarks, shows ...

... I shall think of the evening in terms of his line, Oh, the delights of love and burgundy Maxine Audley and Ruth Trouncer speak admirably for the plotting Lurewell and the chaste, the candied Angelica. As Wildair says in the last couplet Woman, Charming ...