... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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: ...

... 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 ...

... his character, and it may equally well be true. He was young when he died there, only thirty-two and the records of his time speak of the personal sorrow that was felt all over England, a sorrow that inspired more than two hundred elegies. In a sense his ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Kentucky Mountains, where semi- starvation and hopeless back-breaking work seem to be the rule, and where the local people speak a dialect that is remarkably vivid if you can catch the words. Hunter's Horn (Collins. 12s. 6d.) is straight out of the department ...

... of Civil Defence, and a hilarious sketch of some aspects of the Home Guard, as organised in a remote village. Mr. Vulliamy speaks clearly through his chosen characters, and sometimes prophetically. I was trying to explain that Liberalism is an attitude ...