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... who uses them to-day is immediately suspect. I am grateful still for an evening that pleased the ear, and for the sensitive speaking of Tony Britton as Warbeck and in a smaller part-- Cathleen Nesbitt as the Duchess of Burgundy. In this play the Duchess ...
... for years. Sir Philip Qibbs is bound by no pedestrian chronology he saunters back to his own young manhood in Fleet Street, speaks of the same thoroughfare to-day, or of its site in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries without changing his manner to ...
... unlimited effort over the land and sea. Sir Philip seems always to have had the wonderful gift of liking to -try everything, and speaks with as much affectionate recol lection of hunting three days a week when he was a gunner at Woolwich, or of fishing for trout ...
... good as the naval officer made a little insensitive by the over-simpli fication of naval tradition. Miss Marjorie Fielding speaks wittily for the old order. But the special delight of the evening is Mr. Paul Scofield's transformation of his own personality ...
... actor for having the courage to act, not to fashion a mere walking gentleman out of a high-romantic part. And Badel often speaks the verse beautifully. He can voice the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand. The phrase that stays with me, at the evening's ...
... and sands of America slipping away beneath the wheels. It is, I suppose, worth going to' the Phoenix to hear Mr. Lunt as he speaks this, looking oddly like Jupiter disguised as a Victorian. Besides the Lunts, we have in the cast, for our pleasure, such ...
... post-war entertainment world has been the fashionable attitude towards the Coward plays. It seems the done thing nowadays to speak a little contemptuously of Coward, once the theatre's courted prodigy. It is smart to be beastly to him if we can. As if he ...
... too. Why does he not give the common term English Incunabula for books printed in Great Britain before 1600 And why does he speak of ''Plates without at least noting the commoner processes of book- illustration, and explaining to the novices and would-be ...