... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Lady Elizabeth's unpublished journals and correspondence quotations are numer ous and rewarding much of the time our heroine speaks for herself.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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... his new collection, WINDOWS ON A VANISHED TIME (Michael Joseph, 6s.), is to be welcomed. It chanced, says Mr. Bullett, speaking of the summer in which he wrote, that I was visited, almost every day, by some significant moment of the past that had long ...

... 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 ...

... the ninety-year span of her life, which extended from 1818 to 1908, and which, because of her connections, allowed her to speak with equal familiarity of Mendelssohn and Wagner, Chopin and Liszt. Miss Averil Mackenzie- Grieve has written her story with ...

... authors say, the starting-point has been won. The real researches are about to begin. Men and women throughout the English-speaking world remember the profound shock and the sense of personal loss with which they heard the news of the death of Franklin ...

... 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 ...