... victims astutely and leads us through some varied scenes in pub, office, flat, street, with confidence. His occasional plain speaking would have been called obscenity not long ago and embarrasses me, even if it will do nothing of the sort to younger readers ...

... 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 ...

... weather conditions. The Open-Air Theatre, naturally, is at its best at the end of a more or less perfect day, meteorologically speaking. Nature becomes the handmaiden of art when the setting sun imperceptibly gives place to cunning lighting of the raised sward ...

... Jo Mielziner's vast set of AK 603, and he enjoys perching people in the unlikeliest places. All the actors have to do is to speak with forthright clarity. Tyrone Power, as Mister Roberts, is good at this so, too, are Russell Collins as the amiable Doctor ...

... light romantic role that James Donald touches off with much charm. Diana Wynyard, in the unlucky position of having no part to speak of the author seems to have forgotten her looks beauti ful and creates a part by force of personality. Thomas Heathcote, J ...

... modern comedy. Pinero's dialogue is here at its most rounded and ornate. The play calls for a special style of acting and speaking for a fullness, an authority to which the contemporary stage is unused. Personally, I do not find Tanqueray tiresome I find ...

... brings doom to Rosmersholm but she does not communicate it to us the secrets remain unshared, largely, I think though she speaks well because her range of English intonations is still limited. We have to look to the Rosmer, who is Robert Harris, grave ...

... periodically clutches her heart and fumbles in her bag for tiny pills, we are left in very little doubt that she has, crudely speaking, had her chips. The nature of her illness is never clearly divulged she herself blames it vaguely on the war and after but ...

... waned, we can find ourselves as disappointed as though the gold we had been grasping had thinned to sifting dust. So it is (I speak for myself) with Accolade. While the play was in performance on the first night, I felt that it must all be urgent and exciting: ...

... Italian Life and Landscape (Elek, i 12s. 6d.) you feel you are getting not so much the know-how as the S know-all, culturally speaking. He, too, agrees that you can shake off S yournativePuritanism in Capriand even become, to Italian eyes, a devil incarnate ...

... dialogue, to date, but there are in fact mercifully few set jokes. The humour is of the unobtrusive sort that rarely, so to speak, sticks its neck out. And the sentiment is too simple ever to grow musty. It turns on the modesty of Osborne, the imperturbable ...

... fabric of the theatre. The more good i ew work the better that is obvious. But if we ir. ist revive, then let the revivals speak for the best on tir commercial stage across the years. Certain peopli I believe, this season attacked the Edinburgh Festi /al ...