... Portia, at her best in the trial scene. It is not her part, but she has a natural grace of movement and can speak verse naturally. The speaking of the verse was the chief fault of an otherwise admirable production by Mr. Glen Byam Shaw. The young actors ...

... ragged finery, she is like a glorified maypole carrying a satyric face with the fixed expression of the Fool who knows that he speaks many a true word in jest. She is apparently as mad as a hatter; but all the poor people adore her and when she saves a would-be ...

... given to a blinded soldier needs more enchantment than it can draw from the words the lovers and their philosophic spectator speak. For these defici encies the author must answer; yet I cannot help thinking that the words, such as they are, would have a ...

... purgatory. My father, who was very good, very serious, would never have been unfaithful to my mother and he had a charm when speaking to anybody that he could no more hide than the nose in the middle of his face. He hated to see his wife so unhappy, but the ...

... study of kingship and of the two tvoes of Dersonalitv from which men have always chosen their rulers. IN the first act, so to speak, efficiency in the person of Bolingbroke triumphs over imagina tion. The second and the third acts show the limits that are ...

... to have seen a psychiatrist. But this interesting profession, alas! did not exist in the seventeenth century. He could not speak until he was five years old, and his ankles were so weak that he had to crawl until he was seven. He had other physical defects ...

... doing in that rigout, he said. The man in purple replied: These are dark sayings. Scarcely do I understand you. But you speak the speech of the Children of the Stars, and you have among you a sweet musician. All such are welcome here. The Brethren ...

... carrying brass cans of tepid water. There was an early whimsical sketch of a lift. There was much blowing and bellowing down speaking- tubes. Any meal taken up to a bedroom involved about a hundredweight of metal dish-cover. The latest drama and literature ...

... him, and his widow, dying in 1897, left Hertford House and its treasures to a country whose language she always refused to speak. But it is much easier to say what Sir Richard Wallace did, than to be certain who he was. He had acted as agent for the fourth ...

... a Biblical character. In these dreams each is seen through the sleeping thoughts of the others and each, in his own dream, speaks as at heart he is, not as he believes himself to be. The final dream changes to a state of thought entered into by all the ...

... Rose and Mr. George Howe and Mr. Michael Goodliffe makes something distinctive of Camillo. But in Miss Virginia McKcnna's speaking of Perdita some of the play's loveliest verse loses its virtue. Jealousy and Suspicion cause Leontes, King of Sicilia John ...

... she is shortly to marry Mr. Iiichard Wainwright. the film producer You mean you borrowed them? Yessir, in a manner of speaking. But she was proud to lend them most ladies is, sir. It's a souvenir like, for afterwards. The end of that race was disaster ...