... in fact a far from dead sport, and there are many more men practising it, women, too, than catch the public eye. Generally speaking, the ex- perienced falconer is a little reluct ant to encourage others to take up j the recreation, partly because he knows ...

... 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 ...

... pangs will be relieved. I have just read a book which proves this point amply, and very funnily, which is why I am able to speak with such authority. BE GUIDED BY ME (Michael Joseph. 15s.) has been written by M. Guy Abecassis and crisply translated from ...

... 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 ...

... dreaded as a cat dreads water. And, more important, this particular well-made story really requires in Marchbanks a poet who can speak like a poet. All Shaw can supply in this line is an intellectual with the mind of an artist. But the strength of the play, ...

... platforms and appealing with more or less success to varying audiences. Mrs. Emily Kimbrough, for instance, specialises in speaking to those formidable bodies, women's clubs, and her volume of reminiscences on the subject is surely more hilarious than the ...

... the modern school, and a very different idea of what constitutes an arrangement for jazz band and soloists. Jon Hendricks speaks two introductions on this album, but I prefer him as a singer in A Good Gil-together (LAE12231). There is a refreshing funky ...

... there among the Chinese and Cambodians, and is especially interested in the ancient Khmer empire, the Khmer language, which he speaks, and the present-day descendants of the builders of Angkor. When he writes about Indo-China, therefore, he is writing not ...

... straight from Mr. Buch- wald's witty worldly column. Mr. Hiram Sherman, a plump and offhand little American comedian, usually speaks for the columnist. He has a quietly funny little piece about the fantastic shopping which THEATRE ch airborne clobe-trotters ...

... a keen appreciation of society's thirst to New York in the Prohibition era. For Belle Livingstone not only kept the gayest speak- easy in the city but, according to her own standards, hand-picked its devotees. She had good drink served to those of her ...

... Roman Catholic attitudes. It left me pretty dazed, but then I am unaccustomed to the sort of world in which young women of 17 speak of my Faith as the best and the most exciting and wholly delicious thing in the world. BOOKS ...