... Volume of the History of the English-Speaking Peoples The Record of the First Punjabi Regiment Fact and Fiction in Various Forms THE fourth and last volume of Sir Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples is THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES (Cassell ...

... e them as they would impersonate imaginary characters: they speak for them at certain crises in their lives. The idea is that we should hear three members of Communist committees speaking words that they are either reputed to have used or which are ...

... This is only well enough as far as it will go. 'or her breathless eagerness hardly gives ler time to speak what in the part must be conveyed by speaking rather than by act ig. This is one of the specks on an other-, ise delightful production by Mr. Glen ...

... ignored plays, often competent in them selves, that needed an actor's genius,, or idiosyn crasy, to develop them. So I cannot speak of The Party and Charles Laughton's great perform ance in it. The main categories, it seems to me, should be new and serious ...

... seaside town a hundred years ago; in fact, I cannot think of any period writer who is more successful at making his people speak naturally and yet timclessly, or better at getting under the skin of the age. He tells here the story of a respected solicitor ...

... inspira tion is missing. Some of us will remember from Redgrave's performance certain scenes rather than the whole man. He speaks compellingly, and in a fierce whisper, the lines, Now might I do it pat, behind the praying King; I think, also, of the talk ...

... are Swedish. Everyone knows Ingrid, of course, and all of us are delighted to welcome this lovely actress back to English-speaking films. In the past year she has starred with Cary Grant in the sparkling comedy Indiscreet, and with Curt Jurgens and Robert ...

... Avon) is directed by Glen Byam Shaw. That means it is as sensible a production as we are likely to have. But what of the speaking? Romeo must be heard, and here I cannot say that a visually fine revival succeeds. I don't mean that the artists are inaudible ...

... better, perhaps, brush up on our French a little for Paris Holiday in whi ...

... run away. But cruelty to animals is doubly unpardonable as a lesser form of creation they have been put in the charge, so to speak, of homo sapiens, and yet find themselves the victims of a misplaced trust. Maybe Mrs. Baillie didn't mean it quite the way ...

... director, M. Jean Negulesco, a chance to hring the characters to life and the variety of accents in which all the principals speak English enhances the atmosphere of artificiality. Mile. Carere has a devoted boy friend, Mr. Bradford Dillman and Signor Brazzi ...

... was rightly enraged by a Ceylon chauffeur. Other wise, no shadow was cast upon this holiday. A book with a title which can speak for itself is Intimate Letters Of England's Queens (Museum Press, 30s.). The compiler, and annotator, is Margaret Sanders, ...