... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... had volatility (Peter, one fancies, possibly more than Ivan), and they were to develop a vast resourcefulness. They could speak six languages and could handle horses. They were by instinct drawn to luxury cars not, perhaps, the best aid to making or selling ...

... 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 ...

... discomfiture. Mr. Robert Eddison, who in his dark- blue cloak scattered with' stars, makes Oberon a rather terrifying figure, speaks the verse beautifully, and Miss June Bailey is a youthful -Titania who is clearly no match for her tormentor. The most co ...

... account to give of himself, forthright, clearly stated and modest without being coy, but also engages in some admirably plain speaking. For instance, he writes at one point This is the story of a successful life, and so, I suppose, I shall not be able to escape ...

... through the mysteries of a personality This summer the question raises itself again, for the book now impacts on English-speaking readers its formerly limited circulation in this country will extend. MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN has been published by Seeker and ...

... about it, that suits the TV medium as exactly as attempts to present a stage show within the frame of a postage-stamp, so to speak, are doomed to ghastly and expensive failure. The whole secret of television, I feel, lies in its power to bring us face to ...

... 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 ...

... questionnaires from which Mr. Gorer quotes constantly, with the result that throughout these pages the reader finds the English speaking for themselves. The author's own final comment is just as worthy of quotation and very revealing When I was reading, with ...