... memorable portrayal. James Dsnald is excellent as Captain Carvallo. playing with charming ease and making good use of his fine speaking voice. Richard Goolden is very amusing as the farmer, and Peter Finch's clever study of the professor is outstand ing. Thomas ...

... gesture or speech can be over- exaggerated, and that the raising of a voice is much more effective when the character has been speaking in a normal tone during the greater part of the performance. ...

... Her facial gestures are also fine. Sadie White is clcvcrly treated by Kathleen Hobart, who envisages her part clearly and speaks her lines forcibly. She plays the maid in the last act. too. with credit. Daphne Wood is another with two parts to cover, ...

... therefore, is, for Ihe most part, a very good show to see. It is also a very good show lo hear to the extent that every one speaks up uncommonly well. Let us give grateful thanks for this at all events. As for the acting, Tyrone Power gives a good, sturdy ...

... Anglo- American production, so called be cause the leading parts were played by English and American artists with some English-speaking foreign ers in smaller parts, was entitled Him, by E. E. Cummings. Directed by Eric Bentley, well known both in Europe and ...

... the 1 year. Six new children had been j accepted into the orphanage, the capacity being 16. Miss Esmond i then went on to speak of various gifts given to the fund, one of which was the proceeds of the birthday celebrations of the Windmill Theatre t given ...

... effects gained by clever staging and lighting deserve great praise. John Glen brings an attractive stage presence and fine speaking voice to his excellent portrayal of Don Juan. The somewhat sinister figure of his deformed manservant, Owen Jones, is cleverly ...

... any comic play is Mr. Hare's high-pitched pedantic voice! No one on the British stage can more surely make us iaugh when speaking a line that looks almost dull in print. For instance, we found irresistible the actor's shocked remark. 1 his is no time ...

... while speaking of this, he added a warning against what he called production for production's sake, and the cus tom. rather prevalent now, of dress ing up and over-decorating old plays in order to disguise their ihin plots and meagre ideas. Speaking of ...

... producer at the Oxford Playhouse, are only two in stances of his outstanding work for the live theatre of this country, was speaking on his pioneering toils of* the lasl three years in establishing, amongst olher institutions, the pro fessional theatre in ...

... fourth member of the group which haunt: a smart studio-flat near Baker street. For added interest thert arc a painter who speaks broker English and an agent with a tin- pan-alley accent. The character: are quite well drawn the situation: bristle with ...

... Harold Young and j the Company Sergeant-Maior of Maxwell Jackson simply could not be beltcred, except that Mr. Young might speak out rather more clearly and Arthur Lovcgrovc engagingly i exploits the comedy part of Mason, the cook. John Gordon Ash, who ...