... 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 ...

... the present one, have to turn to vanished things and childhood memories for their material and how little, comparatively speaking, they have to say in praise of the countryside of to-day. Only in her chapters on Autumn and Flowers in Buckinghamshire does ...

... when not local-coloured, is often stiff but there is occasionally a useful flick of wit, and the cast, at any rate, acts and speaks as if it were all the most reasonable stuff in the world. The foursome is composed of MichaS Denison, as the arty writer (1 ...

... don't hear her. Except when she sings, or utters ejaculations that can't be dubbed, you hear instead a synchronised voice speaking fluent American. It is certainly well done. If there is anything to be said for dubbing, it can be said of this specimen ...

... to Bernard Shaw that he had never appeared in one of his plays. Nor will you, replied that gentleman. I prefer actors to speak the lines I write. I hear that you prefer your own. Nothing damped, and in fact delighted, Matty has been going irom strength ...

... But if the choice had to be made, we would first incline to light on Sir Thomas Beecham, whose broadcast in The Conductor Speaks was quite unforgettable. Then we would have second thoughts and finally decide on George Cansdale, the Superintendent of the ...