... Mrs. Brown explains that when the boat's name was ever mentioned they raised their eyes to heaven the way people do when you speak of a haunted house. From this unlikely start, with Mr. Brown's great ingenuity and ability, Mrs. Brown's perseverance (and ...

... conferences, lecturing, broadcasting. He teaches one of liis sons German by taking him to Germany for three weeks and resolutely speaking only the language of the country. (Funnily enough it was I who first needed the dictionary; I didn't know what a grasshopper ...

... had none of the actresses' attribute of great beauty, though she was handsome and slender, and she conquered the English- speaking world quite alone. Alone in the most exact meaning of the word since, however much her monologues could people a stage or ...

... ing his subject and listening to the Africans' views: the dialogue of his African characters is not scripted he lets them speak for themselves. Zacharia, a simple man from Zululand, is driven by famine to take work in the gold mines near Johannesburg ...

... Shows, by Sarah Vaughan. Songs For Any Taste, by Mel Tonne. Odds Against Tomorrow, by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Historically Speaking, The Duke, by Duke Ellington. The gallery British Painting, 1730-1960. Pushkin Museum, Moscow. VERDICTS THEATRE overdraft ...

... justify its place in my shelves. For sheer impact of music you should hear an important record by Duke Ellington, Historically speak ing (PMClll(i), reissued as a result of the transfer of the Bethlehem catalogue rights in England. These twelve titles, recorded ...

... and drink, they have now become epicure chefs, gourmet, gourmand and fine bee Mrs. Cradock's book should appeal, broadly speaking, to everyone who prefers eating good food to bad, and it is I have witnesses to this un-putdownable. I even read part of ...

... magnanimity, the emotional intimacy he had desperately hoped to find in the friendship is utterly impossible. East and West do not speak the same language and their minds can make no fruitful contact. On its own merits, then, this is an exciting play, quite apart ...

... satisfactorily. The time is the very near future, and it is comforting to be able to report that human beings still look and speak normally, and that such institutions as the Treasury, advertising agencies and Soho afternoon-clubs still exist. The menace ...

... direction he is taking. God help me! I want to be the President of the United States. And God willing, I 'm going to be. So speaks a crusading District Attorney in a drink-candid moment when he realises that a certain conviction, achieved by him, might ...

... Saxon, who strips well, as the victim. I was impressed by Mr. Howard Keel's integrity in the title role even when he had to speak lines that inevitably raised a laugh. The dialogue throughout is plain atro cious and the well-hammered-home suggestion that ...

... the humble clerk who is the hero of Rhinoceros at the Royal Court; it always rings like a coin fresh from the mint. Broadly speaking, we can say that the process in each instance is the same process. It begins from the inside and works outwards, taking us ...