... the theatrical quality that Fry, for all his verbal flourish, still lacks. Venus Observed has the advantages of impeccable speaking and of two sets (by Roger Furse) as pleasing to the eye as any thing upon the London stage. But Fry has not yet matched speech ...

... and Wilfred Hyde- White, is soundly picked for acting capacity and, as a bonus, the film presents, in her first- English-speaking part, the enchanting Anouk. Golden Salamander, with all these advantages, ought to have turned out a really choice bit of ...

... sketching holiday taken by Rowlandson with his friend Wigstead, then goes on marvellously refreshed in body and mind. Or, speaking of his gambling In his descent into folly Rowlandson injured only himsell. Ur in recalling the death of Rowlandson's aunt: ...

... approached with all the subtlety of a lumbering puppy. With Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore. it Bagdad. Maureen O'Hara, speaking Irish with an American brogue, as the English-educated daughter of a tribal chieftain of Bagdad, who manages to clear up ...

... timing has a deadly assurance. No doubt Mr. Squire would deny any of this and say that he merely speaks the lines. But it is clear that he was born to speak Lonsdale. I am still wonder ing, by the way, abput the family tree of the Bristols, and where one ...

... compelling power through the man's scenes of harshness, temptation and final shame. Already Barbara Jefford's youth and fervour speak eloquently for Isabella with experience her command will grow. Harry Andrews deals gently with the disguised Duke, though one ...

... first on one group, then on another, without allowing us to be distracted by the crowded scene. Some of the actors should speak up in the eighth row of the stalls I found a few of the voices blurred but there is much direct and competent playing a cast ...

... has only a limited run at Hammersmith but it is so much better than West End arrivals during the same fortnight that I am speaking of it first in the hope tl^t Central London will soon have a chance to applaud for itself, a The play lacks the deadlier ...

... or why it was written, by which periodical it was accepted or rejected. The author seems determined not to let the stories speak for themselves. This is a pity, because they might well have done so. They are bright, competent little tales, often enlivened ...

... adults exchanging improbable remarks in an artless attempt to establish plot and character. For instance Mr. Henry Oscar speaking of Mr. Guy Rolfe, a philosopher He 's the Englishman who is confidently expected to win a Nobel Prize. Miss Kathleen Byron ...

... and how the middle child, thirteen-year-old Adrian, his life suddenly crumbled about him, also stares dumbly, too hurt to speak. Later, in another unexpected scene which, though some may hold it to be stagey, has for me a ring of truth, the children express ...

... content is something that everybody must settle with his own soul. On its qualities as film, however, I do feel entitled to speak. Orpheus is magnificent cinema. Very rarely do we see the camera used to such purpose all the tricks of slow motion, double ...