... should have played as Juliet, Viola and Roilind. and in plays by Ibsen and Chekhov. The author ,s more convincing when he speaks of that exceptional phenomenon in the modern world, a man who loves his work, and when he says Managers are always saying ...

... is The Last Boulevardier. The story is perfectly fitting to this. LUCIEN GUITRY His famous father, Lucien Guitry was not to speak to his son for fourteen years, after a quarrel, but lived not only to see him famous as a playwright but also as an actor, ...

... under the Ministry of Education The resultant standard of acting he describes as even and with no actor proletariat to speak of, and the majority have their main source of income from the legiti mate stage, though they work also in television and films ...

... probably sad to think that such a work is neces sary, yet it is certainly useful, not least for people who no doubt think they speak very well already. It is also fascinating in the way it explains why certain types of speech, for instance Northern Eng lish ...

... BOOKS SPEAKING up for Chekhoy, as he terms it, is Harvey Pitcher, in The Chekhoy Play -- a New Interpretation (Chatto and Windus £3). And speak up he does, eloquently and Informatively. A lecturer in Russian at the University of St. Andrews. Harvey ...

... informative and illuminating material. Mr Hayman has one of the greatest virtues of a good interviewer he really lets his subjects speak for themselves and does not needlessly bring in his own opinions. Subjects of these interviews, with some es says, include ...

... in Government. It was to the credit of his spirited heart and not the spirit bottle, that he pursued his main objectives to speak the truth and publish and be damned, like the great Tom Paine and defend both English liberties and those of the American colonists ...

... of the result. Directors' Theatre is notable not only for the range of directors included but because Miss Cook lets them speak for them. selves; she does not intrude need lessly with her own views, though at times she makes apt comment and provides useful ...

... viously a producer of discernment. Now he comes up with an autobio graphical book about his activities as a ponce and, so to speak, man of sexual provision, via the ladies of easy virtue with whom he spent a part of his life. He writes: As I might w_ell ...

... Macmurrough (Ma- cushla). Moss (The Floral Dance), Murray (I'll walk beside you), Paul Rubens (I love the moon). Oley Speaks (Sylvia), or Amy Woodforde-Finden (Pale Hands I loved); and there are doubtless many more omissions. But of course, when ...

... and Joan Sutherland. Never comple tely absent from the stage in Italy, he was for long comparatively neglect ed in German-speaking countries. Now, however, his creative genius is recognised there too. and one of those responsible for that revival of interest ...

... designs. These productions are illustrated and commented on as well as documentation and space permit. The designs are left to speak for themselves, seen as they are in their true functional context. There are mercifully few sketches. The productions are laid ...