... always provide a studied look or an artful posture, an ecstatic Mmmm! or an insincere laugh, where not required actually to speak. And there was one at least who was prepared to cry: Enough! long before he reached the point of not being able merely to ...

... is no need to wait for the arrival of a beach-watcher or a policeman when an emergency arises. White, Wild and Race Horses Speaking of the sea, there is a new, pleasant little anthology. In Praise of the Sea (F. Muller as. 6d.), which has been put together ...

... 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 ...

... tax produced the larger surplus for distribution to shareholders) but Mr. W. Longman gave an optimistic view of prospects, speaking towards the end of 1962. Ranking larger than Longmans in terms of assets but recently showing smaller profits is the Gla ...

... Avon) is directed by Glen Byam Shaw. That means it is as sensible a production as we are likely to have. But what of the speaking? Romeo must be heard, and here I cannot say that a visually fine revival succeeds. I don't mean that the artists are inaudible ...

... disinterested) convictions of his own. He speaks, he (when necessary) argues, with a persistent gentleness born of vision. Is it not an irony of our age that, while our need of vision grows so vital, to speak as a man, as a visionary, may mean to more ...

... Cargill carried off his dual rdle with an air that made me warm towards him. I like a character who confides in me, so to speak, and my only grievance about Mr. Cargill's performance, is that some o(f his murmured asides were hard to catch. In a classic ...

... end, when the Communist Surkkala is turned out of his job and not even paid the full amount owing to him, but generally speaking it is a remarkably jolly piece with little or no plot and plenty of genuinely humorous episodes which presumably reflect ...

... form of a bed ridden child who addresses her father (another American, North this time, and younger), as Sir Lancelot, and speaks of polio as a wicked spell. For her sake Sir Lancelot (Forrest Tucker) goes round righting wrongs, and gets the hand of the ...

... gala performance of Tyrone Guthrie's production of Henry the Eighth at the Old Vic She will hear William Squire (as Cranmer) speaking the prophecy about the future Queen Elizabeth I. on her christening-day She shall be, to the happiness of England, A n aged ...

... 12s. 6 d.) KATE TERRY GIELGUD An Autobiography. Max Reinhardt 21s.) Reviewed by G. B. Stern IT seems somewhat premature to speak of The Little Ark, by Jan de Hartog, as the best novel of 1954 (even supposing we read it at the end of 1953), but cer tainly ...

... when I ventured a mild expostulation over the goings-on in Hollywood's Forever Female. I re spect his opinion, because he speaks from bitter personal experience. But I can't help feeling that a plot based on this sort of behaviour might be given a rest ...