... have reacted in diametrically opposite ways. There are those who have taken deep de light in the excellence of its verse-speaking: and there are those also who have found this very excellence to be a weariness and a bore. So far as I am concerned, Mr ...

... on the stage by the Calverts, who ran almost the last of the stock companies. She was trained by them and had her first speaking part when the company was at Rochdale. Her brother Robert made his name in Australia. Then comes Lionel Brough, known as ...

... self-dramatising, like many other young men, but his sorrow is real and he finds for it a poet's expression. Paul Scofield can speak the verse simply and beautifully. This is a direct statement of the part without over-emphasis on the Benson idea of Richard ...