... mime audience never stale, though the older generation always knows what is coming next.' There is a need with one or two speaking parts for just that extra effort to allow themselves to be heard in the gods. The speciality acts are admirable. Janet ...

... acccnt) by Rikki Fulton. Their crockery-breaking scene brings howls of delight from the kiddies. John Mulvaney, a breathless- speaking Eastern character named Tumshic, almost steals one scene with his big pop eyes and quaint comedy here is a visual comedian ...

... against a back ground of elaborate scenas, a feature of the show. Two 12-year- olds, Linda Abbott and Patricia Fagg, do well in speaking parts. Class and finish is given to the show by the individual acts. Most spectacular is a breathtaking skele ton sequence ...

... Dee (wilting with boredom over the British deb's delights) has the good fortune to stumble upon a good-looking, American- speaking young man, Mr. John Saxon. She doesn't mind that he is merely a jazz drum mer. She falls impetuously in love. Miss Kendall ...

... (this of a middle-aged Greek dancing: Energy suspended within him, balanced, weighed, he is on the outside of himself, so to speak, just as he is at the edge of the circle he describes; be carries on an intrigue with a focus that is never explained; he is ...

... his wonderful ebullience) examines language and its position in the history of the world, religiously and philosophically speaking. He also takes a number of sharp cracks at theories of word origins. Was the name given to the elephant, he enquires with ...

... man who reaped the whirlwind by Anthony Cook man T PLAY: Dii >'s Death Pc Wymark Patrick 1 cGoohan I old Lang WHEN someone speaks to me with starry-eyed enthusiasm about a play admitted to be not a good play I am not put off; but a great many people are ...

... (Hodder and Stoughton. 21s.) Mr. Brian Connell writes vigorously and well of this turning-point in the history of the English-speaking world and has some interesting things to say about that land-hungry young colonel, George Washington. A PEARL TO INDIA ( ...

... the meaning of the monuments of Chimu, mountain-guarded Chavin, Titicaca, Cuzco of the mighty stones, and many others. They speak a curious language. They are milestones on the path of humanity, passed by a series of races who left their seal upon the earth ...

... the expedition was clearly bound up with a general enthusiasm for the African scene (the remoter the better), while English-speaking John Goddard, from Los Angeles, was clearly cast in the same mould. In all it took nine months of voyaging to negotiate over ...

... by an excellent cast, that it is the sort of picture that would probably be greeted with cries of delight by non-English-speaking audiences at foreign film festivals. A plain-clothes policeman, passing a modern block of council flats, grabs a young boy ...

... interval, Mr. Home makes the greater part of his comedy depend on their un ravelling in the morning. A pretty foreign maid who speaks no English adds to the complications. The conscience stricken philanderer leaps to the conviction that if he did not, as at ...