... in the cast. His own son plays the younger boy, a neighbour's son the ten- year-old. In the English version Norman Shelley speaks a commentary, but the film hardly seems to need one. A SEMI-DOCUMENTARY, semi- fictional British film. The Sea Shall Not Have ...

... Malcolm Sargent, in my opinion the world's greatest choral conductor. With Sir Thomas Beecham's latest and superb The Conductor Speaks fresh in mind, it will be interesting to compare the different methods of these two maestri, who constantly delight the musical ...

... splendid reputation makes the value of this collection speak for itself. Here is his work, from the Transitional Poem, published in 1929, onward to An Italian Visit, 1953. In his preface he speaks of the many selves, some now strangers to him, who are ...

... about puppets. Generally speaking, they suffer from a lot of disabilities, or what I regard as disabilities. They have masks instead of faces. Their movements, however well manipulated, are apt to be jerky. When they seem to speak or sing, the human voice ...

... and who hopes to make the reader share his feeling. In a market as crowded and competitive as is, currently, the English-speaking fiction market, it is reasonable that there should be a small book of practical advice on the specialised subject of the ...

... John Barbirolli he of the sardonic tele vision manner will be appearing with the Halle Orchestra in another of The Conductor Speaks series, on January 24th. Lovely Jane Wenham, whom television has taken a considerable way towards stardom, will be appearing ...

... TV than it could expect in the commercial cinema for a long time. On the same evening that variable series The Con ductor Speaks has the benefit of Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra. Earlier the same evening, the new young comedian, Dave King ...

... detriment of the novel. Could Celia really have got away with all that How did she, even under the influence of love, learn to speak such fluent Italian in so short a time before the end of the year, we have her translating a Hardy novel (read aloud, that ...

... expose these bygone displays of extra vagant hospitality to salutary modern satire. How are the periods to be brought within speaking distance Mr. Burn manages neatly enough by finding a million aire who has a great house in present-day London and endowing ...

... the remarkable character of the author. Like Heinricli I Iarrer, he became very fond of the Tibetans (whose language he both speaks and writes), and a streak of mysticism in his character enabled him to enter into tne spiritual side ot tneir lile more folly ...

... to Miss Compton-Burnett for what might be called superficial realism- her children (in this case Francis, Alice and Adrian) speak, for instance, with the sagacity and irony of particularly grown-up grown ups, and servants (in this case Bates, the parlourmaid) ...

... Salome, who wanted the head of John the Baptist. In this book, however, Charles Dunscomb never lets us actually hear Jesus speak, though at every silent contact we get that queer thrill, that sort of sudden sob down our spmes a planned assault on our twentieth ...