... back-pro jection thrown in for good measure. But I have made amends by cutting those thirty-five characters down to thirteen speaking parts It has been a fascinating job of work, and now it has been made even more exciting by the fact that I have been drawn ...

... in that brief scope his published work was strong enough and original enough to have had a lasting impact on the English-speaking world of letters and in the European. The Haunted Man (Hutchinson. 16s.) is a biography, or portrait, of him by Mr. Philip ...

... greater part of the play but he has to arrive there in a condition of suppressed hysteria, striking twelve o'clock, so to speak, at once. He is the local doctor calling on a woman in a lonely moorland cottage to explain that he has come to shoot her husband ...

... (the other is Mr. Walter de la Mare), in language comically and, we suspect, deliberately unlike the pretty-pretty-pet style speaking with a decorous lack of emotion of the little bird's instinctive behaviour-mechanics the transference to the unnatural p ...

... characters. As the too-bland husband beaming on his wayward wife, Hugh Latimer under-states charmingly Jean St. Clair is, so to speak, a kind of suppressed-tomboy Cinderella (how she must have tossed about the ashes and, at regular intervals, David Stoll gets ...

... unwelcome, but Mr. Coates tells us that he was blessed with an Aunt Eliza who had sterner (and more original) stuff in her. Speak well back in your throat, Eric, she would say to him, and remember you are descended from the Welsh Kings. I think you will ...

... his brother, Bertrand Russell, and of Lytton Strachey, Robert Bridges and the brilliant acquaintances of his Oxford days. He speaks of the Mediterranean, the Near East and his final retirement in Italy, but saves the most loving words for England I loved ...

... SUNSET TOUCH. By Howard Spring. Collins 12 s. 6 d.) Reviewed by G. B. Stern TO speak of Niagara as just a waterfall is something of an understatement, and equally to speak of G. K. Chesterton's cascading genius as a mere lavish output hardly meets ...

... subjection to the fiercest competition, the fiercest discipline and the fiercest criticism that I know and I am not here speaking of newspaper criticism, but of behind-the-scenes criticism by managers and producers and fellow-actors. Amateurs seldom get ...

... till wakened by Vickey's frantic appeal Oh, please Please some body help us. We 've just got to have help When he had, so to speak, found his sea-legs on firm earth, he developed a highly original technique in ghosts which enabled him to attend efficiently ...

... together. By far the most dis tinguished Shakespearean in the cast is Sir John Gielgud, playing a lean and hungry Cassius, and speaking the lines with a beauty of diction that none of the others has even begun to emulate. But the part does not give him the ...

... finally, with draws in his sputtering little car to another year of nowhere. It is a part of M. Tati's comedy that he never speaks. A very large young man, dressed in tennis flannels and a Tyrolean hat, gripping a pipe between his teeth at a rakish angle ...