... OGLEBY. What with the dew and the east wind, my hips and shoulders are absolutely screwed to my body. That is Lord Ogleby speaking in the Garrick-and- Colman comedy, The Clandestine Marriage. It has not been revived for more than fifty years. Donald Wolfit ...

... illustrating the text with drawings very often, voicing his ambitions, describing with amiable bombast his eany successes and speaking with frank affection f his relatives and friends. He can be funny without malice and despondent without self- pity, and he ...

... cajoled, bribed with ropes of pearls and flattering speeches. But he is wrong. So speaks Berengaria of Navarre, in The Luteplayer. But after all, why not She could not speak English, anyway. Nor, for that matter, most probably, could Richard Cceur de Lion ...

... Shakespeare's Sicilian King in the clench of jealousy's yellow fever, is not unplayable. No one is likely to forget Gielgud 's speak ing and he has with him such people as Diana Wynyard (Her- mione), Flora Robson (Paulina), and Sir Lewis Casson (in the small ...

... is no space to speak, though I am inclined to think, with due allowance for their period, that Mr. Hesketh Pearson rather underrates them. -ORNiNG Star, Mr. J. L. Hodson's latest book (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) is a daily newspaper. It speaks fearlessly, attacking ...

... magnificent little hypocrite at her manoeuvres. She is a ringleader in some religious sect of her own called the Ever-Readies, and speaks of her God as though he were the star of a film in which she plays second lead. She is able to justify to herself every action ...

... functionary with the thickest of stammers which miraculously and amusingly changes to a smooth flow of synthetic sweetness when he speaks into the microphone. And Mr. John Tils, a shy little celebrity, is so remarkably affected by the same instrument of torture ...

... heredi tary and ceased to be merely the title of a trade, there must have been thirty or forty owners of it in the English-speaking world who achieved immortal fame, and Sidney Smith can be counted as remarkable among admirals as Sydney Smith among deans ...

... Herbert Van Thai. The latest addition to the Windows on the World series is Negley Farson's CAUCASIAN JOURNEY (Evans. 12s. 6d.). SPEAK, MEMORY (Victor Gollancz. 16s.), is the title for a Memoir by Vladimir Nabokov. In IN THE STEPS OF GEORGE BORROW (Rich and ...

... jolly professional nude, who instructs her junior to think of something nice while she 's posing, and I 'm sure nobody could speak them more com fortingly than Charlotte Mitchell, mending a sock, sipping a gla ss of Guinness, and wondering how many coupons ...

... CHURCHILL SPEAKS The Latest Collection of the Prime Minister's Speeches Edited by Randolph Churchill That the massive prose of Winston Churchill will stand the test of time there is no question, for his is the grand manner; and to what advantage did he ...

... (though not for want of publii have seldom had their flora and fauna re ecstatically admired. V jimir Nabokov evokes things past Speak Memory (Gollancz, 16s.) with nicroscopic intensity that is wholly fasciri; g, when he tells of his far-away life in Russia ...