... There is no place for subtlety and no real need for style in her record. The direct method suits the narrative and the story speaks for itself. Every country seems to achieve the Foreign Service it deserves. Despite Labour attaches and the merging of the ...

... and highly individual ways with love and crime, are moving, exasperating, funny or repellent and always vitally human. They speak with naturalness and behave often fantastically, but never unbelievably. They are characters in every sense of the word. I ...

... Wilcle, and as this actor has long displayed something of that playwright's whip-lash wit, it was to be expected that he would speak the Wildean lines with con summate ease and distinction. What is, perhaps, surprising is that he should have been able to make ...

... in the interval. Perhaps it is that Mr. Mar Adrian's useful jester adds the note that was not struck so firmly before. He speaks rather than sings his two lovely lyrics with a sadness which suggests that he sees through every one and everything, even ...

... Guthrie production) among whom my favourite is perhaps the be jewelled Tent Man in Stratford, Ontario, who put the lid, so to speak, rn the new theatre and wore a Bridge Coatee all the time. All my life I have treasured a secret dream that one day Dr. Guthrie ...

... Searching melody in a minor key SPEAKING AS ONE OF THOSE FAST vanishing woolly mammoths who well recall the 30's, Mr. Cecil Day Lewis (once part of that astonishing composite word Auden-Spender- Day Lewis-MacNeice) is for me for ever associated with my ...

... U.S. cavalryman (admirable Mr. Woody Strode) in 1881, on charges (unsub stantiated) of rape and murder. Mr. Jeffrey Hunter speaks forcibly in his defence. Otherwise the pro ceedings struck me as highly unethical and the interpolated comedy as in t he worst ...

... Court, Theatre Workshop in Stratford E., the Belgrade at Coventry and some others. Once up this ladder he is at least on speaking terms with the lady he hopes to conquer. There is a snag, of course. It is that though the lady may listen she will not neces ...

... A man I know was once nearly thrown out of the Garrick Club for daring to say, at the actors' table of all places, Actors speak louder than words. Certainly their memoirs, reminiscences, autobiographies, et al., tend to be louder (and sometimes funnier) ...

... subjects of at least three different recordings, but he still has fresh thoughts about them. The Jazz Gallery is, strictly speaking, a new series of Philips EPs, featuring their top artists. Duke is featured in one (BBE12304) which revives pieces he recorded ...

... may be neces sary to explain to British readers some of the misconceptions which arise from the fact that our two nations speak the same language on the surface. Nearly all these essays help the clarification and it is a real pleasure to have them collected ...

... succeeded in leaving to that great continent a far more durable monument. It is not only its inhabitants but its visitors who speak of Adelaide with the kind of affection not always evoked by feats of town planning. Mr. Dutton can be said to have done well ...