... affair must ha>'e im posed a great strain on Frank Sund strom, principal actor, joint trans lator and producer. Mr. Sundstrom, speaking I nglish with hardly a trace of accent, played with great inten sity and intelligence and did not relax his efforts even ...

... audi torium. Patricia Burke's Trilby shows a simple, happy vivacity turned effectively to glassy-eyed submissiveness. Her speaking voice is musical and her singing voice goes some way towards suggesting the world-shattering prima donna. But the climax ...

... with the impulsive interruption of a bridge-game by the young son in an outburst of anger at his elders' complacency when he speaks words of truth with the natural cruelty of youth. His Aunt Madeleine, who has long stiffed a passion for the boy's fa(her ...

... and even in Cornwall the people regard her wilh fear, for she has the reputation of being an ill-wisher and j possibly on speaking terms with the Devil himself. When her son. Garth, marries Mary, an attractive j young arli.st from London. Mrs. Tregarth ...

... Blythc as Wellborn, a dispossessed gentleman. is well cast for his general bearing, but he needs more variety of tone in his speaking. His friend. Lady Allwotlh's siep-son. is played by Geoffrey Hodson. who is efficient enough in a juvenile-lead kind of part ...

... charac- ters. in fact, have any reality he does remarkably well. He has quite a presence, especially in cloak and large hat. and speaks his lines with (Continued OB page (CoattalMd tnm pafe dignity and some variety, making great use of his opportunities in the ...

... threats, a half-crazed revolutionary shoots and wounds the King. There is a most effective scene where, in delirium, the King speaks with his dead grandfather, who urges him, above all else, never to betray himself as a man, and to do what is honour- able ...

... Alfred Parker Malcolm Russell Sheila Watkins Geraldine McKeown Tommy Mitchell Victor Adams Produced by Joan Riley Strictly speaking, this is not a new play. It was first performed at Buxton, but the author has sharpened up the dialogue and pruned here and ...

... was a compact, al ways enjoyable performance. Some of the banter between the lower characters was lost through over- rapid speaking. The more worthless lines could have been cut and the rest taken a little more slowly; but this was a minor fault. The pro ...

... the verse is largely an un known quantity, but a detailed pro gramme summary is more than suffi cient to enable an English-speaking audience to appreciate to the full the humours and philosophies upon which the play turns. It is King Solomon's contention ...

... original, witty, full of understanding for Shakespeare's genius. Hun garian is an excellently sonorous and rounded language for speaking verse, and the artists were well equal to the demands of their parts. Modern Bedroom comedies and drawing- room dramas are ...

... the Fentons' hospitality but on their possessions. Now. there is the germ here of a good social comedy. But t he germ, so to speak, fails to incubate the play soon becomes completely artificial. Mr. Fenton. who is an author, is unconvincingly persuaded by ...