... gives way to a great whirl of verbal confusion. The French champion jockey come to stay at the hotel speaks not a word of English, and since nobody else speaks a word of French, the situation is good for at least ten minutes. Then at night the Colonel, disturbed ...

... has a young brother who because he lisps will hardly be bothered to speak at all. But the excitement of owning a trombone gives the lad an interest in life. He not only begins to speak but to sing, and Mr. Denis Waterman sings Gary, Indiana most takingly ...

... A WRITTEN-OFF PLAY COMES TO LIFE A t th e Theatre IN what, practically speaking, is still unknown Shakespeare, the Old Vic is doing fine business. The din as the Lords of York and Lancaster curse and kill, and are cursed and killed in turn, can almost ...

... sparkling Italian comedy, with pantomime so vivid, and dialogue so simple, that it flatters you with the belief you could speak Italian fluently, if you had the mind. The stars are Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio de Sica. The scene is a remote and gossipy ...

... SWEET MADNESS Vaudeville IT is the story of a rich and exasperating young man who, so to speak, ordered a wife from his psychiatrist. The order, in business jargon, would have read Kindly despatch one Psychological Complement, and oblige The girl, under ...

... audience. When the madly attractive Liz Muir arrives in Paris to escape the boredom of a 22 year marriage with no sex to speak of and no companionship either, anything can happen and does. After all this is Paris and there's the good looking young waiter ...

... held a Rent Party if they had money problems. This is where the fun really begins and although there is no plot or message to speak of the hat is passed round but comes back empty we are entertained to a delightful evening of blues and jazz performed by a ...

... reflected in the mock- Shakespearean language of the aristocracy. The language makes the strongest impression. The royals speak in blank verse which is, sometimes, a comic parody of Shakespeare and, at other times, a flowery front to the characters' inner ...

... monster by the Krupps and Siemens and their like, is anatomised by Brecht, writing in 1938. It is all here people afraid to speak critically, even in the family circle; the bodies of suspects sent home in tin coffins after interrogation; doctors in hospitals ...

... actress must be very bad indeed to lose the solemn farcical splendour of the scene in which Eliza, slowly, as one in state, speaking with a beautiful tone and keeping a proper poise and gravity, introduces the Eynsford Hill family to the New Small Talk. ...

... rights again, shipwrecks on the coast of Bohemia, long wanderings that lead home again at last and graceful village maidens speaking exquisite poetry as becomes those who are princesses though they do not know it. Nothing is easier than to retell such a ...

... or why it was written, by which periodical it was accepted or rejected. The author seems determined not to let the stories speak for themselves. This is a pity, because they might well have done so. They are bright, competent little tales, often enlivened ...