... John Barbirolli he of the sardonic tele vision manner will be appearing with the Halle Orchestra in another of The Conductor Speaks series, on January 24th. Lovely Jane Wenham, whom television has taken a considerable way towards stardom, will be appearing ...

... Salome, who wanted the head of John the Baptist. In this book, however, Charles Dunscomb never lets us actually hear Jesus speak, though at every silent contact we get that queer thrill, that sort of sudden sob down our spmes a planned assault on our twentieth ...

... except some fooling for the Martext- Audrey- Touchstone trio and we are lucky in an Orlando (John Neville) with a beautiful speaking voice, and in a young Rosalind (Virginia McKenna) who loves deeply, and who, as the weeks pass, will be merrier. The Arden ...

... in me End. In fact the last booing was at Covent Garden of all places. True, somebody behind me the other night did shout Speak up, please but it was a lone voice from the stalls and the piece was a success. Due for an Outbreak Still, this first-night ...

... everybody, I suppose, has the kind of word that drives him to near-madness. Few people in these days, except classical dons, can speak seriously of an epic. Noel Coward though he did not realise it at the time slew cavalcade long ago. We are beginning slowly ...

... produced a film that is blessedly free from tricks, effects and any form of self-consciousness. They asked Richard Burton to speak a commentary that wouldn't sound like a commentary. When Burton heard how the film was being made he did it, too, for the ...

... 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 ...

... seductive widow from England who takes up with Lisbon taxi-driver Daniel Gelin. Shrewdly amusing study by Trevor Howard (speaking slow French with an execrable accent) of a Scotland Yard detective patiently hunting down a murderer. Fascinating shots of ...

... a matter for debate. We have been used either to noisy Macbeths or to actors who treat the part as an exercise in verse- speaking. Olivier is at once warrior and haunted unconscious poet nobody in our day has probed Macbeth so deeply. The opening, in ...

... stage speech since I ventured myself to say a few words from a platform, and was asked by a dear soul in the front row to Speak Up. Speak up Me I had hoped I was bawling my head off. The matter is in my mind this week. I was at a play not long ago in which ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...