... but not hippopotamus, and that a giraffe cow can almost decapitate a lion with the forward kick of a front hoof. And when he speaks of birds, and the colours of birds, Mr. Campbell becomes lyrical. His wanderings have taken him to many places, but with ...

... pleasure? Whatever the lovers find to say there is no reconciling their points of view. Time has separated them. They no longer speak the same language. There is not much they need to say; M. Anouilh has seen to it that the cleverly contrived and brilliantly ...

... space-ship to talk to the President of the United States. He is well equipped to do this, as he is a bi-lingual space-man, speaking perfect English, although with what is described as a New England accent. The President must call a conference, Mr. Rennie ...

... worked harder than any poor y! He was one of the first to be killed in 14. little rat, is the phrase always used by Pah a in speaking to the writer, and the boo has a peculiar idiom deriving, not so mud: from any sort of unfamiliarity with the English language ...

... bore having to pretend that every hero with an American voice has really come from Toronto or Montreal and that the heroine speaks English in the way she does because her father married a lady from New York. it may be true in certain cases, ol course, but ...

... the author calls j a ballet-comedy, and that Lucienne Hill has adapted with a swift grace alas, not always visible in the speaking at the Arts. I enjoyed this little piece at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre London, I fear, falls behind the Midlands, ...

... remember the writ which James V. of Scotland drew up in 1540 in favour of oure louit John Faw, lord and erle of Litill Egipt. He speaks of wagon-dwellers of Tudor times, though the gypsy caravan is less than two centuries old and its owners still sleep in tents ...

... undemarcated frontier of China and India about fourteen years ago. In these simple, direct and yet often lyrical chapters speaks not only the expert mountaineer but the explorer, and the man whose love of nature is overwhelming enough to affect his life ...

... little overdoes the clowning proper to Dogberry and Miss Dorothy Tutin rather over-formalizes the heroine, but generally speaking there is no serious fault to be found with the company, and they have in the settings and the cos tumes of M. Mariano Andreu ...

... own jokes, the hearers grow glum. John Gielgud has avoided this. We are spared ripple and trill and chuckle. Playing and speaking are gay, but, for most of the time, without self- consciousness. It is only in the broader fooling that we find any sense ...

... writing, of a distinguished officer of the late Indian Army, who uses the nom-de-plume of Cornet. Although I necessarily speak as one who has seldom been farther east than Fen- church Street Station, I can genuinely say that I thoroughly enjoyed these ...

... than to convey the same impression when the heroine has to be shown in dramatic action. Seeing her at close quarters, so to speak, we are able to judge for ourselves what degree of admiration is her due. Unless Mr. Wood had entirely remodelled the character ...