... AND NOW A YOUTHFUL HORNBLOWER -By VERNON FANE Some Early Adventures of the Sea Dog Whom the English-speaking People Have Taken to Their Hearts 'THERE has to be a first time, as people are apt to say with a kind of gloomy philosophy, and so, I suppose ...

... law or members of the British Army. The only thing I did not show them was the rose-window glade what would be the use of speaking to these men about the death of celandine and primroses ...

... 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 ...

... Life becomes the First Choice of a fortnight in which, as the only new West End production staged for a run, it is-- so to speak-- returned unopposed. If the Bristol Old Vic's revival of The Two Gentlemen of Verona had been on for longer than a fortnight ...

... I shall think of the evening in terms of his line, Oh, the delights of love and burgundy Maxine Audley and Ruth Trouncer speak admirably for the plotting Lurewell and the chaste, the candied Angelica. As Wildair says in the last couplet Woman, Charming ...

... Ring Out the Bells (Victoria Palace) LAUGHTER came less readily at the Victoria Palace. I speak for myself. Around me the theatre swayed. Strong men melted in their seats. Women sobbed hysterically. But I observed only the presence of Bud Flanagan, Nervo ...

... only child of adoring parents. Mandy is such a bright baby in all other ways that they can't understand why she is so slow to speak. The anxious mother, watching her closely, finds that she doesn't respond to normal sounds and voices-- calling, clapping-- ...

... magnificent memories of old eloquence. But, oh dear me, the mass of words It seems as though Chaplin, once he has decided to speak freely on the screen, finds himself incapable of keeping back anything, however trite, that he has been longing to let go for ...

... ways of men were disturbing because, repellently as the insects resembled men, they remained, theatrically speaking, insects. Theatrically speaking, Mr. Spewack's characters are not ants at all. They are humans whimsically pretending in the spirit of a ...

... actresses Siobhan McKenna's Virgilia is in gracious silence. The Valeria hardly deserves the famous greeting (Anthony Quayle speaks it splendidly) to the moon of Rome. Only one woman is of first importance, but what a personage she is Acted at height, she ...

... Hordern's Caliban can be both affecting and alarming it is never, like so many Calibans, just a shaggy-dog story, j and he speaks Be not afeard as well as I I remember it. These two players, the creatures of air and earth, are the making of the revival ...

... is all that can be asked as an east wind, when at the end she has to veer to the tender' west and speak a nobly moving apostrophe to matrimony she speaks it nobly but somehow not movingly. It is as though she might be better at exhibiting emotions than ...