... almost engaged to the country squire, James Fla herty, and falling in love with her. He leaves, after a short visit, for America promising to return to Eileen and the Green -Valley. Flaherty, fearing he has lost the love of Eileen, intercepts Rory's letters ...

... ers, both a compelling piece of theatre and a valuable political document, throws bold light on the current hysteria in America against subversive activities. The danger lies not so much in the presence of the few who are creating an embryonic police ...

... intended before the Neapolitan censor's ban on a king's assassination caused it to be transferred to seventeenth-century America, raised hopes of a production and sentation worthy of this new authenticity. In spite of inequalities and shortcomings ...

... mis-spellings of names and other inaccuracies But the volume is full of entertaining matter, including some lively stories about America, where Mr. Matthews was as much a favourite as he has been here THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO CRITICISM The Art of Dramatic ...

... stage. The play begins slowly the prin cipal action in Ihc first act is the excited unpacking of food and drink parcels from America and the way in which it will end is obvious Ifrom about half -way through. When the curtain rises C':iv^ Jcvons and his wife ...

... Nigel Burke Nelly Bly Shelagh MiMer Barman Kenneth Smith None of the many versions of this folk-tale of ninrtccnth-ccnturv America makes clear the scene of action. An American balk t. Frankic and Johnnie, by Ruth Page, sets the story in ihe 1880s in old ...

... between the cousins, but unfortunately it does not prove possible to excise the returned cousin's record of shady activities in America This results in the attempted change of identity being disclosed and a desperate attempt to stave off the threatened arrest ...

... tact fully conceals the girl's selfishness and concentrates intensely on the character's pathos. Eden Gray, a newcomer from America, makes a good straightforward impression as the remorseful and doomed wife, and an uncommonly attractive per formance comes ...

... smartening up of pace might help, but, even then, the fun needs a deal of Arengthening, and surely it was not necessary to go to America to find a comedy such as this. We have dramatists over here that can write better and brighter comedies and give better opportuni ...

... intensifies until she smartly smacks Lord 1 lling- worth's face. Fortunately, there is at hand a gentle young puritan from America to engage Gerald Arbuth- not's affections. And that is aH that need be written of the story. Something Different I would be ...

... Cen tral European countries and become a People's Democracy. So its high drama is played out by aristocratic refugees in an America drawing- room. Count Zahky, who warns to defeat the Communists by restoring the monarchy, has only the late king's illegitimate ...

... in the best of it that it comes hard to write about this allegorical story concern ing a lynching in a southern State of America in 1941. Story it mostly is, the force and clash of drama being extremely weak. Through the mouths of the five characters ...