... The fourth actress captured Max Siriol Hugh- Jones AS THE LEAVES DRIFT ANKLE-HIGH in the gutters, so do the bookshops start to silt up with the great pre- Christmas flood. Booksellers at this time of year develop a sort of built-in flinch, as of a man ...

... ABOUT YVONNE ARNAUD A gay portrait of the actress; memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster and a wide range of non-fiction and recent novels There are several autobiographies this week, and good ones, too, but it is a brief but en chanting portrait ...

... when he found that a group of elderly but still active and popular actresses would be willing to play the parts. So we have Dame Sybil Thorndike and Miss Marie Lohr as two actresses who loved the same man, have not spoken to each other for 30 years and ...

... teresting hobby. I mean it when I say I will only stay around as long as people want me. This is the attitude of Israeli actress Daliah Lavi, who won the Venice Best Act ress award for her perfor mance in II Demonio and is one of the decorative lady spies ...

... Magda Szabo: Jonathan Cape. 21s., has been translated from the Hun garian by Kathleen Szasz and is the story of a Budapest actress, told in the first person, and addressed to the lover she has lost. Emotional; with excellently reported contemporary scenes ...

... that two separate End managements had to a desperate expedient. Were they not pitting the drawing power of popular actresses against the all too conspicuous lack of drawing power in the plays chosen for them? 1 can think of no other defence for The ...

... intention which ought to disarm criticism, but which unhappy provokes it. The piece sets out to show that the nouvelle vague actress the fashionable Edwardian leading lady, and indeed the whole be of theatre folk through the centuries, are sisters ...

... contempor- ary significance you will have a pleasant evening. Miss Moira luster, as the actress wife in the case, plays her, no doubt deliberately, as a very grand actress indeed. She has little to act, but she gives the impression of acting all the time. ...

... discussed, not only by these three, but by another trio representing the more physical aspects of the theatre the count, an actress and an impresario. It is a civilized opera taking place in Strauss's favourite, improbably 18th-century France. Dr. Gunther ...

... success ful members of the New Wave in the theatre. It is set throughout in the dressing-room of Annie Fox, a young magnetic actress with a Jewish, suburban background. Complete with bed and drinks cabinet, the dressing-room is the focal point for Annie's ...

... up again as the setting for the screen version of Tennessee Williams lhe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, the story of a fading actress and a young gigolo in the high life of Rome. It is a somewhat odd film, notable for the perform ances by Vivien Leigh and ...

... played by Miss Maggie Smith, a cir cumstance which is good enough for any theatregoer and gives this scintillating young actress a chance to hide part of her little face behind a Max Linder moustache. She is, of course, a born comedian, moustachioed or ...