... 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 ...

... to wear. He made this his excuse for not going out into society, when great or learned ladies invited him to do so. We are speaking of the eighteenth century, when gentlemen's hose was more conspicuous than it is today. Mr Stillingfleet's objections were ...

... rational woman, whose conversation on this occasion is to serve her purpose more effectively than tears, knows better than to speak of what her husband would probably consider a most unreasonable subject of complaint. She tries to recollect some incident ...

... performance sat Mr. Wolfit, and I noticed that he followed Sir John's performance with particular care. Now, statistically speaking, he has gone one better than his great predecessor, for, in addi tion to Oedipus Tyrannus, he is playing Oedipus At Colonus ...

... Muriel Masefield in Peacocks and Primroses Examines the Works of the Great Statesman with a Flair for Fiction AN author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children, said Disraeli once, and except with Queen ...

... Lesley Osmond as a soubrette and Mr. James Carney as a tipsy masher and Mr. Olaf Olsen as the Prince Consort. But generally speaking all the opportunities belong to Miss Neagle, and it is not till the second half that she begins to turn them into a personal ...

... dom with Arragon. And when at last the flower blossoms, when Bassanio has come and conquered, how moving it is to hear her speak You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, and finally to kneel in love before her lord, her governor, her king In the Trial ...

... subject of G. B. Stern's A Name To Conjure With (Collins, 15s.), for she digresses in a vein of affectionate reminiscence to speak of many friends and acquaintances whose personality means far more than their names. Names to conjure with indeed they are ...

... as a labour of love, and he has done a real service in making one of the greatest of Russian works accessible to English-speaking readers. This is a work of scholarship in marked contrast to the first translations of the Gorky trilogy which were so u ...

... Philip Bate fell the formidable task of producing Sir Thomas Beecham in The Con ductor Speaks. It was a task excellently carried out. Sir Thomas certainly did speak. It is difficult to decide which gave us more pleasure his discourse, which was a mixture ...