... and who hopes to make the reader share his feeling. In a market as crowded and competitive as is, currently, the English-speaking fiction market, it is reasonable that there should be a small book of practical advice on the specialised subject of the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the remarkable character of the author. Like Heinricli I Iarrer, he became very fond of the Tibetans (whose language he both speaks and writes), and a streak of mysticism in his character enabled him to enter into tne spiritual side ot tneir lile more folly ...

... 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) ...

... 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 ...

... is no need to wait for the arrival of a beach-watcher or a policeman when an emergency arises. White, Wild and Race Horses Speaking of the sea, there is a new, pleasant little anthology. In Praise of the Sea (F. Muller as. 6d.), which has been put together ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...