... Othello, which is not his part. He looks well and no doubt feels the passions of the man he cannot yet communicate them. His speaking in the earlier scenes is tight-lipped, spasmodic. It is not until he prepares to strangle Desdemona that Mr. Quayle suddenly ...

... them selves can give points to many a film-star in deportment and charm. Secret Conclave (Marble Arch Pavilion). English- speaking version of an Italian film about the life of the bare-footed peasant boy who eventually became Pope Pius X., and died full ...

... Marble Archi IN The Egyptian, there are sixty-seven major sets, seven stars, two dozen featured players, eighty-nine other speak ing rôles, over 5,000 extras, and 5,000,000 separate objects, items and costumes of Egyptian antiquity, including the Nile ...

... persuading me of the truth of any simulated emotion. She is a clever actress, but (and I speak for myself) she has not developed her powers of communication heart does not speak to heart. Elsewhere, the tale is far happier. John Neville is the most truly romantic ...

... Purdom looks extremely well in the uniform of a university cadet corps. His demeanour is that of a man of breeding and his speaking voice attractive. Unfor tunately, his singing voice is not his own, but the rich tenor of Philadelphia's Mario Lanza. The ...

... some comic tableaux (that took me back, as they say) of the defeat of the Armada. Are we lucky Well here it 's for you to speak. ...

... It looks so easy. All the dialogue is there. Very well, chaps, carry on I But I warn future aspirants not to be deceived. Speaking to them in the infuriating tones of a wise uncle, as one who has known the toil of getting an Alice into the theatre this ...

... gives way to a great whirl of verbal confusion. The French champion jockey come to stay at the hotel speaks not a word of English, and since nobody else speaks a word of French, the situation is good for at least ten minutes. Then at night the Colonel, disturbed ...

... sparkling Italian comedy, with pantomime so vivid, and dialogue so simple, that it flatters you with the belief you could speak Italian fluently, if you had the mind. The stars are Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio de Sica. The scene is a remote and gossipy ...

... sometimes one would willingly have had Mr. Hepton to tea and the players knew that the first task in presenting Shakespeare is to speak it well. If a Shakespeare play is not well spoken, it is of no use in the world to chat knowingly about decor, stage business ...

... offset by the excellence of Mr. Keith Michell as the insolent and self-worshipping Achilles, Mr. Leo McKern's expressive speaking of Ulysses, and Miss Barbara Jefford's remarkable abandon as the light, sensual and heartless Helen. Mr. Byam Shaw is better ...

... in parts, as a farce and productions in Russia, we understand, are much gayer than in England. Obstinately, I am not sure (speaking from this side of the fence) that Chekov himself got his play quite right. Agreed, it has extremely amusing elements but ...