... experience. What do you think of the League of Nations? of shorts? of eugenics? of nudism? Did your mother spoil you Speaking of the liner, do you say le, or la Normandie? There is a rush of applicants since the salaries are good, and all candidates ...

... be a book of considerable value. He takes Auden, with T. S. Eliot, as the two most influential living poets in the English-speaking world, and his analysis is written in the light of that premise, with copious quotations from poems written at various stages ...

... illustrating the text with drawings very often, voicing his ambitions, describing with amiable bombast his eany successes and speaking with frank affection f his relatives and friends. He can be funny without malice and despondent without self- pity, and he ...

... speed of their movement, but for the sublime brevity of some of the conversational en counters. And who has been here? Come, speak! M. de Cavois. M. de Cavois? Yes, in person. The Captain of the Cardinal's Guards? Himself. The author was paid ...

... OGLEBY. What with the dew and the east wind, my hips and shoulders are absolutely screwed to my body. That is Lord Ogleby speaking in the Garrick-and- Colman comedy, The Clandestine Marriage. It has not been revived for more than fifty years. Donald Wolfit ...

... cajoled, bribed with ropes of pearls and flattering speeches. But he is wrong. So speaks Berengaria of Navarre, in The Luteplayer. But after all, why not She could not speak English, anyway. Nor, for that matter, most probably, could Richard Cceur de Lion ...

... 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 ...

... magnificent little hypocrite at her manoeuvres. She is a ringleader in some religious sect of her own called the Ever-Readies, and speaks of her God as though he were the star of a film in which she plays second lead. She is able to justify to herself every action ...

... Shakespeare's Sicilian King in the clench of jealousy's yellow fever, is not unplayable. No one is likely to forget Gielgud 's speak ing and he has with him such people as Diana Wynyard (Her- mione), Flora Robson (Paulina), and Sir Lewis Casson (in the small ...

... functionary with the thickest of stammers which miraculously and amusingly changes to a smooth flow of synthetic sweetness when he speaks into the microphone. And Mr. John Tils, a shy little celebrity, is so remarkably affected by the same instrument of torture ...

... heredi tary and ceased to be merely the title of a trade, there must have been thirty or forty owners of it in the English-speaking world who achieved immortal fame, and Sidney Smith can be counted as remarkable among admirals as Sydney Smith among deans ...