... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... bandleaders (SKL4090), in which he reminisces about their music, their styles, and the individual sounds they produced. It speaks well for his versatile band and arranging staff that 12 widely differing approaches to big band swing are effectively and ...

... in and break it up a little. Some of the material is enor mously interesting, most of it sounds to me deeply difficult to speak and listen to, and some of the most memorable material comes in asides, such as the incidental and stunning description of ...

... already and 12 more to come, in a new fluent and persuasive translation by Michael Meyer which permits the craggy characters to speak dialogue that is credible (not to mention speakable) as well as tremendous. People going on holiday are by tradition supposed ...