... 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 ...

... siderable lustiness, too, and the same approach, half-scholarly, half-rollicking, to the customs and speech of the time. Speaking for myself, it is an age that I am heartily glad to have missed, out I cannot deny the vitality of the Lindsays' writing ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...