... CHURCHILL SPEAKS The Latest Collection of the Prime Minister's Speeches Edited by Randolph Churchill That the massive prose of Winston Churchill will stand the test of time there is no question, for his is the grand manner; and to what advantage did he ...

... Henry the Fifth the King says of Fluellen: There is much care and valour in this Welshman. Richard Burton might have been speaking of himself. The young Welsh actor, who appeared as Prince Hal in the two parts of Henry the Fourth, now presents the King ...

... SHAVINGS (St. Martin's IT sounds almost like a touring revue. Why not speak simply of a Shaw Triple Bill This is an in-and-out evening. The Man of Destiny is that tedious anecdote about the young Napoleon I am sorry to say that the acting increases the ...

... Falstaff has gTown more confident, and Richard Burton's Hal is as restrained as before. Again, Harry Andrews's King Henry now speaking magnificently the invocation to Sleep commands I the Stratford stage. Alan Badel's I Shallow, a husk of a man, is well J ...

... is no space to speak, though I am inclined to think, with due allowance for their period, that Mr. Hesketh Pearson rather underrates them. -ORNiNG Star, Mr. J. L. Hodson's latest book (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) is a daily newspaper. It speaks fearlessly, attacking ...

... Redgrave craftily manipulates the Northumbrian accent used here, instead of the familiar stammer, as an interpretation of speaking thick. I am heretic enough to dis like Falstaff's sallies on the field of Shrewsbury and X have never wished more urgently ...

... his major work. At the Cambridge, where the piece makes a long night indeed, much of the prose labours and not all of the speaking satisfies. Andre Huguenet's Hassan is direct and unremarkable Frederick Valk's Caliph was hard to hear at the premiere and ...

... wait for corro boration. But I am never any good at anagrams Mrs. Christie has me well beaten here. I must be cautious in speaking of the cast. You will find no clues in the careful statement that Jeanne de Gasalis (fluttering her way through the night) ...

... Palladium he waits to be squeezed. Ask him any preposterous question. After a second's premonitory rum ble, the oracle will speak Who won the Popplewell Plate at Kettering in 1853, sir Popplewell Plate Let me see, sir, that would be Dragoman'; Lord William ...

... timid bank clerk, is to hold up his bank manager and Simon, ne'er-do-well playboy, is to marry the first eligible girl who speaks to him after the reading of the will. Failure to observe theie conditions entails loss of the legacy in each case, and the ...

... philoso phises in an arbour to our great content. Add Marie Lohr (the author could have expanded this part) Basil Radford, speaking for the cricket and the Home Guard of 1804 and George Rose, who spends the evening, a cherub aloft, up a tree and there is ...

... Portia, at her best in the trial scene. It is not her part, but she has a natural grace of movement and can speak verse naturally. The speaking of the verse was the chief fault of an otherwise admirable production by Mr. Glen Byam Shaw. The young actors ...