... in front of those sets. We remember that premiere still, whereas Plain and Fancy, for all its so-gentle charm, is going (I speak for myself) to be quickly and wildly forgettable. On the next night, when Max Adrian and Moyra Fraser, in a Fresh Airs sketch ...

... that Hollywood had found its best young actor since Marlon Brando. Rebel Without a Cause confirms this impression. Broadly speaking, the film belongs in the same class as The Wild One and The Blackboard Jungle. Within the limits of Hollywood melodrama ...

... Plain and Fancy Drury Lane Straight is how we live, says Malcolm Keen in a beard, and plain, and simple, and content. He is speaking for the Amish, that colony of simple-living farmers in the depths of Pennsylvania. They have found their pleasant visitors ...

... phoney: a fake, dust and ashes. The Waltz is in some ways a rancid piece and, having included it long ago in an anthology, I speak without prejudice but in the theatre it is also harshly comic, and, in some scenes, terrifying. It is just another of the views ...

... Goodman. (Weid- enfeld and Nicolson 12s. 6d.), which concerns an old judge, who, in an age of mass communications, still speaks the language of Addison, and his under graduate grandson who wants to drive a jeep to the Mountains of the Moon. The publishers ...

... the programme. Even so and this is the point we still hear the play. There are reasons now and then for a charge of under-speaking but, before the charges are made, an accuser must decide whether his (or her) hearing is as good as it ought to be, and whether ...

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... because his anniversary is due. For a few days there is a scrimmage over the poor fellow's body. At other times we do not speak of him he is not in the list of anniversaries. An odd business but we all conform, and I suppose we shall go on with it. At ...

... g boor, arrogant and shoddy, reminds me of the modern poet's demented wrestler, with gorge full of phlegm. Kenneth Haigh speaks him with great vigour, and such people as Mary Ure (wife) and Helena Hughes (mistress) help us through the night. There is ...

... Juliet Old Vic There is no need to say to John Neville, Wherefore art thou Romeo He was a natural choice for the part, and speaks it beautifully. Claire Bloom is a reasonable Juliet, Paul Rogers a resolute Mercutio, and Robert Helpmann's production excel ...

... has been done so well so many times during the last three decades that a new production only partially suc cessful (mixed speaking, beautiful costumes, dull set) is bound to disappoint. There is at least one fine comic performance Mark Dignam's prickly ...

... of thing and many people, as well as critics to respect, do then Hugh Sinclair (on behalf of Scotland Yard), Walter Rilla (speaking for psychiatry), and Michael Sheplcy (Yard again) will help you to enjoy it. If you solve its puzzle, you 're a better man ...