... THE GIFT THAT SPEAKS by Elizabeth Bowen CHRISTMAS book buying, I find, may be fraught with last-moment indecisions. Against how many names on our shopping list may we not have, happily, scribbled Book?-- and for the time, that had seemed to be that ...

... SYMBOLICALLY SPEAKING-- is not enough says C. A. UEJEUAE A HOLLYWOOD executive has just made a highly significant remark. Now that the innovation of the large-size picture has been accepted, he says, we can again place emphasis on the story. The italics ...

... A Foreign Minister Speaks Out Dr. Karl G ruber Writes of Austria in the Post-War World; My First Seventy-Six Years, by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Other New Publications -By VERNON FANE DR. KARL GRUBER, who is now Austrian Ambassador in Washington, has written ...

... delightful Viennese soprano, gives Sunday's r celebrity concert. On Tuesday The Conductor Speaks, in the person of Karl Rankl, former chief at Covent Garden. Speaking Personally on Monday is the wife of another conductor, Sir Hamilton Harty. Older opera-goers ...

... Shirer. (Robert Hale 12s. 6d.) The proper study The proper study of mankind may still be man all right, but, fictionally speaking, I suggest that it is now not man in conflict with himself (how is Tom managing his schizophrenia or man in relation to his ...

... Birmingham Kepcw} This is a Richard unaffected, for one, by the Montague reading of the conscious artist in sorrow. Jack May speaks with 3 beautiful lucidity, and Douglas Seale shows again that, in this matter of producing the Shakespearean histories, he ...

... this one (I speak with as much keenness as if I was charging twopence a borrow) this one is I cast about for words to describe how good it is this one is good. (Now you see why reviewers write as they write. They could hardly write as they speak, could they ...

... theatre in spite of Michael Denison's production and the performance of Maxine Audley (from Stratford). I am sorry to have to speak of it in the past tense. ...

... Tale Old Vic This has been slammed unwisely. A good deal of it (and it is madly difficult) comes over. Wendy Hiller cannot speak Hermione's verse, but she feels it, and gets us to feel Paul Rogers has no pathos but plenty of passion John Neville's spiv ...

... letters to M. Hegel and if I say that I can't see any problem here beyond that of putting yourself in the poor girl's place, I speak with the advantage of having read a writer who has done just that. ...

... and Stan Laurel, and become the. toast of the continent. America's Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart are her leading men, speaking Italian with dubbed voices. A film to talk about at seasonal parties. REVIEWS ...

... all 's well again, with the Dream basking in the best of weather gently now, I 'm 4 talking of last week Robert Eddison to speak Oberon as finely as we have heard it in recent years, and Mr. Atkins and the mechanicals of Athens-cum-Arden galumphing through ...