... noon, owing to Gareth Davies's Eugene Marchbanks. It was said that the character first won favour because Shaw made his poet speak poetically. His words can easily become a prey to melodrama, but Mr. Davies made the outbursts genuine, and showed Eugene's ...

... versions of them selves with much charm, and Heather Thatcher makes a good impression in a brief and rather pointless English speaking part. It is left to Jeanne Fusier-Gir to provide the one vital piece of act ing of the evening in an altogether delightful ...

... per- haps for the present work. Leslie French gallantly leads an insipid band of rustic miracle players, and Robert Speaight speaks thie closing speech with ringing oratory. WESTMINSTER ABBEY ...

... history lesson delivered by a serious-minded lecturer. Opportuni ties for lighter interludes were neg lected. As there were 52 speaking parts and 22 extras, plenty of op portunities were afforded for a large number of students to portray characters ranging ...

... audience. Good as the American girls were, they did not succeed in making the incident as I amusing as the Rambcrt dancers. I Speaking generally, the burlesque was successfully performed in the lampooning spirit in which it was devised. Three Virgins and a ...

... heard some thing, Dearest confesses. But when it becomes apparent that he must learn. Dearest, who cannot bring herself to speak to him on the subject, seeks the aid of her friend, the fascinating Comtesse de Chau mont, and then the fun begins. Three of ...

... where Donald Wokits company usually wins our sympathy, no mat- i ter whai defects may be found. Warmth and entbusia-m. clear speaking, the sincerity that gives grease-paint an exciting smell and the traffic of the stage a magic all its own these attributes ...

... s writing the subtlety that most English-speaking people prob- 1 ably missed in the other. Peter! Hall's is a faithful and unfaltering interpretation, and the cast as a whole have the great merit of I speaking smoothly, swiftly and accurately. Tony White ...

... Centre Dramatique Romande Following the example of France. ?i French-speaking centre drama- lique has been founded in Switzer land. with headquarters in Lausanne, lis object is to exchange visits wilh France, to prepare a repertoire of French and other ...

... writers of to-day are needed for puppet productions, according to Bruno Tublin mana- f'ng director of Puppet Theatre, to., speaking in Edinburgh. But several of these writers had un fortunately ridiculed such sugges tions. Surely, when Goethe and George ...

... the ardour of the man. This is no mean achievement, considering that so much more than her tiny hand is frozen. Mr. Welles speaks n unnecessary prologue through a microphone off-stage, in which he has pretentious things to say about the gradual closing-in ...

... begins in the deadliest earnest, and without wit or originality. The author, unfortunately, seems unable to make his characters speak naturally to one another. Most of the dialogue, in fact, consists of irrelevant gags of dubious vintage and puns which could ...