... 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 ...

... character of Canaris, and we can hazard a guess that it will be years yet before his mysterious role will be fully understood. I speak of Africa and golden joys, wrote Shakespeare, and this quotation aptly sums up the theme of Kathleen Courlander's new travel ...

... (Seeker and War burg. 15s.) is a long and, as the publishers tell us with commendable restraint, complex novel which, tersely speaking, is about the excavation more than fifty years before the story opens, of the tomb of a seventh-century bishop. In this grave ...

... incorrigible Old Cock is in the Shakespearean comedy tradition those parts which used to be cut for schoolroom reading. Modernly speaking, Mr. Mankowitz has done (and high time, too) for the Cockney English what James Joyce did for the Dublin Irish. He's been ...

... People By VERNON JF ANE I AM neither impressed nor even distracted by Dr. Edith Sum merskill's political opinions, so that I speak without bias when I say that the doctor's book on box ing, THE IGNOBLE ART (Heine man. 10s. 6d.), will have the enthusiastic ...

... TIven those who do not readily grasp what Jj exactly Mr. Eliot is getting at are given all possible help by the actors, who speak most of the sinewy, analytic verse with a beautiful expressiveness, and by the subtle changes of atmosphere which the producer ...

... 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 ...

... . The need to soothe the public, to impress the tax-payer, the Ministry, the politi cians, to outfly their rivals, not to speak of the more interesting, personal ones of building the odd empire, ditching the next man, pleasing the boss made the going ...

... perform ance. The performance is dominated by Mr. Ron Moody as the student prince played by a young clerk who is too shy to speak in the presence of departmental chiefs in the audience, and takes refuge from criticism in magnificent gestures. Miss Ruby ...

... vivid and extremely engaging picture is created by his grand-daughter, Miss Aileen Smiles, of a plain man who liked plain speaking. He was, nevertheless, something of a snob, enjoyed travel in a thoroughly Victorian way, and was immensely full of energy ...

... resolved to get his client acquitted. Sensationally, he refuses to cross-examine the captain. So the I decks are cleared, so to speak, for a tooth-and- nail conflict of evidence. Mr. Herman Wouk manages this conflict with a great deal of art, mixing human interest ...

... Expert The Evolution of Jazz A Naval War Hero Eric Ambled s New Thriller and Other Fiction By VERNON FANE MOST people when they speak of the Edwardian age mean it in a fairly precise sense to refer to the King's own circle or, at the most, to that small world ...