... Murray took over the part of Romeo at very short notice, the production was generally welcomed as an attempt to let the play speak for itself. It also gives theatre- lovers a chance to see again Dame Edith Evans as the Nurse. Romeo (Brian Murray) interrupts ...

... he could and then when he had reached middle age, decided to live among the Italians, who have given up such illusions. SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE LIKE A NATIVE (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) is the book which is one of the results of Mr. Menen's long Italian stay ...

... in im moderate terms against those who stopped the Minister in his tracks. They are content to let the rather dreary facts speak for themselves. The last has certainly not been heard of Mr McDermott, a man of talent by many people's reckoning and probably ...

... during thunderstorms, a fact which endears him to me more than anything else I know about him? Harpo Speaks is Harpo Marx's memoirs, and when he does speak, it is clearly not too easy for him to stop. Unfairly, one expects the great poetic unnervingly silent ...

... things and lacking them, really lacking everything. Here is no lyric emotion because that depends on the speaking of the verse, and the speaking of the verse throughout the performance is utterly without vocal rhythm and music. And, well balanced as the ...

... has a young brother who because he lisps will hardly be bothered to speak at all. But the excitement of owning a trombone gives the lad an interest in life. He not only begins to speak but to sing, and Mr. Denis Waterman sings Gary, Indiana most takingly ...

... his stage work has been done. His first tele vision was a BBC Childrens' Hour play about Nelson in 1959. This was the non-speak ing part of a naval gunner. During the past 12 months film and television commit ments have caused Arthur's appearances at ...

... what it is worth, is claimed as the most expensive black-and-white film ever made. The huge cast includes 57 stars and 1 67 speaking parts. The list is so long that it seems to the jaundiced eye that everyone in the film world has done his bit, as they ...

... an audience grate ful for a genuine singer's voice in a cast which, for the most part, is doing a Pro fessor Higgins and speaking the lyrics against a musical background. Relent lessly plugged as this song is, it is still not so much a hit as a near miss ...

... leading ladies are ver legant charmers and handle their love affairs with a certain discreti There are at present no manners to speak of and hardly any morals id we are not surprised to learn from Miss Dundy that back stage tl mailer and the youngest of the ...

... switch in natures, and with great subtlety David Warner marks the mutations. Mr. Roy Dotrice is a majestic John of Gaunt, speaking his great England speech with an intense feeling rather than declaiming it as the great passage of poetry that it is. He ...

... fairies are cast as small boys; the timbre of their voices is part of the haunting world of Oberon and Tytania. Puck is a speaking part, played by a boy acrobat, Nicolas Chagrin. This originality of treatment extends to the lovers, who are seen as a group ...