... Edwardian Story (Rockliff, 18s.). An Anglo-Irish rheto rician who dreams in genera lities and talks in italics, he writes as he speaks. It may be that the quiet, mellow, humorous Max Beerbohm manner of going back is better, and that one should decant one's ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... that actors spoke louder than words and, having made this observation in an actors' club, has not been heard from since. Speaking, however, is not the only thing that actors, and actresses, can do with words. Some of them can arrange them in very pleasant ...

... television. And who has better facilities for producing those than the existing film industry Mr. Goldwyn may not have been speaking on behalf of other American producers, but his predominant position in Hollywood makes it not unlikely that his attitude ...

... Englishman's business may be, with the sharp Navigation. Learn it and live or leave it and be damned. Walter Fitzgerald acts and speaks Shotover imagina tively, even if his white beard is hardly immense. He is ad mirable in the scene with Ellie when he muses ...

... watch Blind Pew with his Black Spot tapping his way across an English moorland. Only little Bobby Driscoll, as Jim Hawkins, speaks with the accent of a younger nation and on this point it is fair to remember, I think, that Steven son's original story was ...

... serving as the highbrows' whipping boy. This is a natural and even healthy state of affairs. Woe to the theatre when all men speak well of its management. Yet are there not too many highbrows who forget that they have a remedy against the imbecile boy's ...

... survived World War I. So sympathetic to the ears of his contemporaries was that bright staccato voice that it could often speak to them in tones of shrill reproof, and they liked it all the more. It comprehended the fascination of the gleaming social ...

... REVIEWS by C. A. LEJEUNE FANNY IN France they still speak with bated breath of l'immortelle trilogie de Marcel Pagnol --Marius, Fanny and Cesar. These studies of the lives of Pagnol's beloved Marseillais first became celebrated as stage plays; but the ...