... detriment of the novel. Could Celia really have got away with all that How did she, even under the influence of love, learn to speak such fluent Italian in so short a time before the end of the year, we have her translating a Hardy novel (read aloud, that ...

... TV than it could expect in the commercial cinema for a long time. On the same evening that variable series The Con ductor Speaks has the benefit of Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra. Earlier the same evening, the new young comedian, Dave King ...

... expose these bygone displays of extra vagant hospitality to salutary modern satire. How are the periods to be brought within speaking distance Mr. Burn manages neatly enough by finding a million aire who has a great house in present-day London and endowing ...

... to Miss Compton-Burnett for what might be called superficial realism- her children (in this case Francis, Alice and Adrian) speak, for instance, with the sagacity and irony of particularly grown-up grown ups, and servants (in this case Bates, the parlourmaid) ...

... in cluding Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and Black on White. To-night's film is on John Piper, with the artist himself speaking the closing commentary. In its function of modern magic lantern, TV is perfectly suited to show films on art. One on the ...

... Lady Elizabeth's unpublished journals and correspondence quotations are numer ous and rewarding much of the time our heroine speaks for herself. We are back with the same triangle, inside the same circle the triangle being the Devonshire House menage a trois ...

... Virginia McKenna is at her best in the audacities of Rosalind, which are mostly conveyed through her prose passages, but her speaking of the poetry has too much voice and too little variety, and, for me at least, she does not quite suggest what is the great ...

... Kurt Jooss. Earlier on Good Friday evening we shall see the American evangelist Billy Graham during his Scotland crusade, speaking at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall, which is said to hold 10,000 souls. His producers might be reminded that from Harringay last year ...

... Long Play carrying Xanadu and the lovely short poem Frost At Midnight. For this recording Richard Burton was selected to speak The Mariner and its two mess mates. The choice of this exceptionally talented young actor is indeed rewarding. His interpretation ...

... woman's heart, I think he may give a misleading impression. Of lush revelations we have none. But perhaps, when Dr. Gooch speaks of the heart, he is thinking rather of its endurances, and its deprivations. For here is a life-loving woman doomed, almost ...

... 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 ...

... regret will come to the comparatively few, and that by far the greater part of the audience will enjoy listening to a Borodin speaking with an American accent. And when the nocturne from the second string quartet is turned into the lovely vocal quartet called ...