... 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 ...

... aesthetics of Kant. When he describes his acquaintance with authors rather more recently dead, Mr. Maugham lets himself (if I may speak vulgarly) go a bit. No one who knew Henry James in the flesh can read his stories dis passionately. He got the sound of his ...

... has to stand for sanity), Constance Lome, Colin Douglas, Cyril Smith and Dodd Mehan. Mr. Mehan's shady art dealer is, so to speak, one of the evening's lights. Ruth Maitland thunders in now and again as a conventional' mother-in-law and exit line, something ...

... Babar's Visit to Bird Island (Methuen 15s.), an almost certain favourite among the very small. Seasonable if not strictly speaking children s books are two good anthologies, The Riches of Christmas, edited by Hannen Foss (Blandford Press 15s.), and The ...

... Because You're Mine (hmpire) SPEAKING as a professional reviewer, I would say it was hard luck on Because You're Mine to have been chosen as the feature for the Royal Film Performance. Because it's not mine, nor, apparently, my colleagues'; and to thrust ...