... in his wake, so that the handover might be effected with honour and dignity to all concerned. He could, of course, not only speak French fluently in conversation, but also make speeches in French to those of the Malgaches who understood the language, a ...

... omits the set Order as he omits the Vision, and prefers to rely upon his and his actors' witty invention William Squire's speaking of the mercifully-unpunctured Cranmer oration, and a charming Anne Boleyn (Jeanette Sterke). It is unfortunate that the Old ...

... Mr. Axelrod is trying to make things difficult for us, as Mr. Eugene O'Neill did in Strange Interlude where the characters speak their thoughts as well as the words they use to disguise their thoughts. This is fantasy without tears. Many of the thoughts ...

... rhythm. Mr. Thorley Walters and Mr. Peter Felgate more than once introduce a timely and an engaging diversion. Gener ally speaking, however, Miss Courtneidge is the entertainment, and what is wrong with that She has always been that rare thing on the revue ...

... irreverently, what family has changed house so often as the English Crown The Tower, Westminster, Whitehall, St. James's, not to speak of more rural abodes. But with what fortunate results for the happiness of London's enthusiastic and ever- increasing crowds ...

... because he might have saved His Grace from making such a guy of himself out hunting as he did, if the historian of the times speaks the truth. The Duke patronized a scarlet frock coat and lilac silk waistcoat, kid gloves, fustians as to his breeches, and ...

... But many are gay, and nearly all are tinged with passion and romance. The shortest is anony mous: Are you the O'Reilly They speak of so highly? O really, O'Reilly You are bowling well! This alone should recommend the book to the warriors from the Antipodes ...

... merely a roaring, bullying tough. The plan works. The toned-down Shrew becomes pleasant to hear and to see, thanks to the speaking of Yvonne Mitchell even if Ada Rehan might not have understood this performance and of Marius Goring, and to the setting ...

... of his intention to create an unpleasant criminal. He is never satisfied to let Ernest Ralph Gorse and the other characters speak for themselves, or to reveal them through their actions, but in statement after statement tells us what to expect of them. ...

... 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 ...

... Pratt and Fisher Morgan come through best. Mr. Pratt is a mercurial, twinkling grandee (though, by the way, need the Duke speak of Wezley and Wezleyan and Mr. Morgan's Grand Inquisitor has the blandness of cream-cheese he would be the life-and-soul of ...

... directness. Michael Redgrave, a much younger man than Ayrton, is now giving a very clever, very elaborate study in which (I speak for myself) one is still too conscious of the elaboration, of the actor as he works up this passage or that, but fails to get ...