... to which Mr. Jugg is a non-paying subscriber, dismisses the whole thing with the dangerous half-truth Bald men write bad poetry, and how. Meanwhile, O. E. J. has lost his ball again, and he wishes me to say that he would be very grateful if those who ...

... and the wit proper to youth. Is it possible that youth, with its natural zest and grace and want ofheart, and not so much poetry, is what playgoers are now finding in Mr. Fry? The world's grown old and cold ancl weary our actors first Mr. Gielgud, now ...

... , who, suddenly nauseated by flat-racing at Newmarket, Epsom and Limerick Junction, had taken to cocaine, steeplechasing, poetry, and Plumpton. A sad story, my masters. Or is it But, reverting to the Rugby Union code, as Mr. Morse remarked to Colonel ...

... de chats, and assume a virtue (ballet), though I have it not The graceful, gifted mortals who are the embodiments of the poetry of the foot are fed nightly on adulation. Should I prance into the presence of Miss Ninette de Valois, kiss her tiny hand ...

... the conquering white man, or Sais, was too lazy, too drunk, or too stupid (as now) to take any trouble. Even so the native poetry of the Celt over comes these handicaps. If, for example, the former Colonial Secretary had been trapped in some far-off Imperial ...

... Kelly, star, co-director and, we suspect, moving spirit of this exuberant picture, has all the agility of Astaire but not the poetry; his film has all the right ideas but none of the insoiration. Some of these good ideas seem to me fundamental to the screen ...

... literature in 1948. Should fashion swing round again to harmonious usage of the well-picked word, then Miss Sackville-West's poetry will come back to its proper place in general esteem. She has explained that she hates writing novels and would never be good ...

... hearing, as well as of sight, I would like to have had his views on the re-discovery by T. S. Eliot of the Kipling genius for poetry, and on the Bloomsbury twitterings consequent thereon. The thought of this paradox might have caused a twitch of the bushy ...

... in this manner There are glints of wit and some sharp phrases, but the piece, though written in tic-tac verse, has little poetry. The eight or nine lines that suddenly light the stage in the last scene are by Shelley, spoken by the Earth to Prometheus ...

... based on Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, with which a chap we know won the Desiree Rumbelgiitz Come-to-Britain Gold Medal of the Poetry Society recently. The finale (Allegretto quasi giocoso) opens with a mysterious, godlike visitant from the Min. of Works revealing ...

... So you put him in the art depart ment Yes. He 's got interesting ideas on design. Writes poetry, too. And you publish it Good heavens, no We don't publish poetry. But it isn't bad stuff, all the same. What about the boiler Oh, Robert fixed that. Got another ...

... he plays with me, Now with his feet. And though the Restoration boys got rough and Herrick a trifle sickly the art of love poetry moved inexorably towards the Victorian era insisting on the same theme. Sheridan, to be sure, was apt to bring money into ...