... for a long time, Walt Disney has had the fancy to satirize a number of cinema conventions, using as his characters animals, speaking with human voices. Any resemblance to George Orwell's Animal Farm may safely be taken as coincidental, although one or two ...

... priggish distortion of Nigel Balchin's new novel. But it seems to be supported by Henry's last word on Jason. Says a friend, speaking of Jason's trial and sentence for theft and false pretences It was pretty hopeless from the start. Says Henry, meaningfully ...

... isolation lightened by a gloriously tough race-meeting, or the Flying Doctor's visits, or a jolting truck expedition: I can't speak too highly of the author's knowledge of her subject, her character-work, and her exquisite comic sense. But, through no fault ...

... now mythical wars. Seen by ships at sea, the coasts of the Badlands, after dark, still send out a radioactive glow: sailors speak, with awe, of luminous ruins. The hero of The Chrysalids is a boy, David Strorm, who tells the story. He's a pleasant, natural ...

... myself slipping gently into a revue's rhyming prose. The stage is occupied by one theatre stall and one playgoer. Let him speak It 's only a London theatre, only a London stall the plushiest seat, no room for your feet, at the mushiest play of all and ...

... 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 ...

... flowers. The tranquillity and refreshment of Barrackpore must have been necessary to Lord Auckland. Here was it that he could speak to Emily of the projects he had at heart and in hand, and at which many around him stood askance. There was his educational ...

... Nevertheless, he has still the flash that, when it comes, can excite profoundly. It came that night, quite suddenly without speaking he seemed to reduce everyone else on the stage to midgets. Henry Irving must have had that quality in an overwhelming degree ...

... novel, in which category The Nimble Rabbit resoundingly does not fall. It has a likable central character in Jeremy Pine, who speaks his very sound mind delightfully there are also an author of the hairy-chested school, two publishers out to sign him up, ...

... Hollywood design. She is not the career-girl type, nor the glamour type, nor the bobby-soxer type, nor the wild west type. She speaks American with a French accent, and fits about as comfortably into Hollywood as a Great Dane puppy into a pre-fab. What are ...

... rights again, shipwrecks on the coast of Bohemia, long wanderings that lead home again at last and graceful village maidens speaking exquisite poetry as becomes those who are princesses though they do not know it. Nothing is easier than to retell such a ...

... 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 ...