... 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 ...

... woman Big Foot loves, with her unsullied desire Silence, a pierrot-like creature, sad but very much alive all these move and speak with a conviction springing from deep and I authentic creative impulse. Their j individual stories arc clear enough. It is ...

... to be some thing of an enigma, but Honor Blackman plays the part as a pure woman who is also a slut. She looks lovely and speaks attractively. Robert Ross as the trapper reveals the struggle between honour and passion with simple sincerity. The smaller ...

... exciting music being a ten dency to shout occasionally at an emotional climax. The same might be said about Warwick Braithwaite speaking orchestrally. In his en thusiasm ne now and again pro duced a rather overpowering tone from Ihe orchestra. Nevertheless, ...

... The story of the intro duction into a Swiss pastor's family of a grown-up girl-waif who is blind and has never learnt to speak may at first be more difficult to acccpl on a stage than through the medium of printed words; but the Pygmalion-like remoulding ...

... play was in parts weak in construction. The cast also, in common with many talented amateur companies/ failed at times to speak their lines clearly. At the end Howard Spring mounted the platform and handed the ladies of the cast bouquets, congratulating ...

... Casaon. Thomas the Rhymer, straight from Elfland, has strict injunctions from his Queen to gang warily wi' his tongue and aye speak the truth when he composes the ballad he has in mind, which must be based on lact. Ihe author has incorporated inlo his story ...

... Napoleon j should be played, but the perform ance remains too light and unsubtle. As the Strange Lady Jacqueline Syl- vester speaks well, but with insufli- cient stage command and a very limited technical equipment she cannot make more than a slight impression ...

... if one were assist ing at a merry Christmas party. Children should love it. Trevor Harvey as the conductor had the longest speaking part, and rose magnificently to his oppor tunities. A special word of praise must go to Herbert Wilson, who was down among ...

... however graceful and ably j contrived. It is well presented and acted, and one notices how clearly all the char- j acters speak. Though they are pup pets, they are determined to be lively and interesting. Perhaps the best performance is that of Vernon ...

... situations with a certain effective skill. The trouble is. the woman of easy virtue who becomes the real centre of things speaks too many moral clichis, holds up the action with stale philo sophising. and accentuates the essen tial triteness of the play ...

... The play directed by Michael Langham. Not all the words of praise and valediction that have been written since his death can speak with half the eloquence of this one excellent production of George Bernard Shaw's most popular play. Here is Shaw, the playwright ...