... this absurd medley is not only changeless-- it is the most effortlessly popular of all theatrical shows and needs nobody to speak or write a good word for it. If you like pantomime, all well and good; if you don't, pantomime can get on without you. The ...

... intelligence of British juries are hearten- ing. One thing does again and again appear: the more spectacular trials, vulgarly speaking, have not always been the most interesting legally. Here we have, rescued from oblivion, a number of cases which, because ...

... what might be called the victim's end of the camera. This did not deter him from stalking his own victims with assiduity. To speak of victims is hardly fair for, from all showing, Carroll knew well how to make a sitting enjoyable no single subject of his ...

... making us think of .figures in a Punch and Judy show. Mr. Walter Hudd is an accomplished Polonius, and Mr. Wilfrid Walter speaks the Ghost well, though the production gives him a gratuitously human solidity. The Tragic Court at Elsinore: Gertrude (Wanda ...

... rendered more so by the years of ordeal. The effect is of sunshine blazing through a leaf, showing up every vein. Humanly speaking, Denton Welch's experience was constricted by that fatality of the acci dent in his late teens; just as it has been cut short ...

... Diaz? Yes, senora. 'Many thanks. It is Mat, Teresa of Albeicin who is speaking: the wife Don Floris Conde. Yes, senora. Of the (avert Do me the favour to inquire if I may speak v Don Jose himself. If the senora will have the goodness to waiij little ...

... demonstrates that the author has a deal of local knowledge about Kenya. More than that I cannot say, although the dust-cover speaks of a thunderous climax to a suspenseful story of espionage. A Tree of Night, by Truman Capote (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.). In ...

... compensate for simplicity, is not for him. This is degeneracy, no doubt, but noi surely of the kind which justifies, dramatically speak ing, the revivalist father in murdering his son's destroyer. If a man prefers bachelor luxury to love in a cottage he may be ...

... hand a whisky- soda. And on one's knees-- the book. A charming and pleasing thought, surely. This all leads me naturally to speak of Game Fish of the World edited by Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, F.L.S. and Francesca La Monte, secretary, I.Q.F.A. (Nicholson and ...

... this, I take leave to doubt. rrtHE Leaden Cupid, by Basil Creigh- ton (Richards Press 7 s. 6 d.). My dear Clara, how you speak You alarm me. You are not, X hope, a sans culotte of the feelings. I say that, as my virtual wife, my home is yours as much ...

... at their naivety. Miss Shelley is competently partnered by Mr. Norman Lawrence; but this is an entertainment in which deeds speak louder than words, and il is not really going until the characters get to blows and give Mr. Michael Benthall a chance to show ...

... through out the regiment's history has been derived very largely from families in which the boy, almost as soon as he could speak, has been taught that his object in life is to be a gunner and to live up to the standards set by Ramsay or Bobs or Bradbury ...