... slurry. Their conversations intercut to a flashback as her mother waits for school to come out 14 years ago. Theatrically speaking, the trouble is that we are hectored, as well as lec tured, and, in the second play, subjected to Matheson's own theory of ...

... have that air of con cise and therefore chilling actuality which is a hallmark of this compa ny's work. Ella Wilder as Zoe, speaking with quiet elegance, typifies this approach. Nick is played by Gerard Bell and the floundering Bella by Diana Goodhand. Su ...

... company. A cornerstone of the play's con struction is that Davies the tramp is old. Derek Watson here stnvesnoblv to act and speak like an old man but fails lamentably to make the cha racter look old. Yet Derek Watson, Roger Lane as the nebulous and slow ...

... stage speech since I ventured myself to say a few words from a platform, and was asked by a dear soul in the front row to Speak Up. Speak up Me I had hoped I was bawling my head off. The matter is in my mind this week. I was at a play not long ago in which ...

... magnificent memories of old eloquence. But, oh dear me, the mass of words It seems as though Chaplin, once he has decided to speak freely on the screen, finds himself incapable of keeping back anything, however trite, that he has been longing to let go for ...

... Judith Martin as usual wrote the script, directed the action, designed the costumes and performed as well. Irving Burton is a speaking mime with a neat line in the ridiculous and the two younger members of the company Caroline Yeager and Court Miller, fit ...

... about it--but most of all I liked the way Felicity Taylor's intelligent and uncluttered direction allowed the play to speak so eloquently for itself, through characters that were, with out exception, given total integrity. Wilfred Harrison's Lear ...

... Salome, who wanted the head of John the Baptist. In this book, however, Charles Dunscomb never lets us actually hear Jesus speak, though at every silent contact we get that queer thrill, that sort of sudden sob down our spmes a planned assault on our twentieth ...

... Goodman. (Weid- enfeld and Nicolson 12s. 6d.), which concerns an old judge, who, in an age of mass communications, still speaks the language of Addison, and his under graduate grandson who wants to drive a jeep to the Mountains of the Moon. The publishers ...

... Plain and Fancy Drury Lane Straight is how we live, says Malcolm Keen in a beard, and plain, and simple, and content. He is speaking for the Amish, that colony of simple-living farmers in the depths of Pennsylvania. They have found their pleasant visitors ...

... especially when it invites us to compare him with the celebrated Loch Lomond monster Of the human acting I would prefer not to speak. For my own part, I never found this parti cular beast frightening at all if anything, rather discriminating and ill-used. ...

... ways of men were disturbing because, repellently as the insects resembled men, they remained, theatrically speaking, insects. Theatrically speaking, Mr. Spewack's characters are not ants at all. They are humans whimsically pretending in the spirit of a ...