... This film scares me rigid Elspetb Grant EX-PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, SPEAKING MORE IN SORROW THAN IN horror I gather, has expressed the opinion that the world may really be just a few minutes away from disaster-- and having quaked my way through Mr. Val ...

... orchestra which he assembled for an appearance at the Jazz Gallery in New York late last year. I find his pieces, orchestrally speaking, inclined to be sombre, though he leaves much space for improvisation. Weill's Bilbao is typical of this treatment, which ...

... and compassionate frame of mind. Two English authors, travellers both, are responsible for the next two works which. widely speaking, may be described as books of travel. THE ROAD TO 1NAMURA (Robert Hale. 21s.) is the work of Mr. Lewis Bush married to a ...

... in the odour of good whiskey and bad cooking, and with the man who is, in one BOOKS SVETLANA BERIOSOVA has the difficult speaking and dancing role in Ashton's Persephone at Covent Garden sense, their benefactor and later, perhaps, their victim. It is ...

... sorry, said-- a little coldly, that there I was: surely I appreciated that Sid for Cid was the best solution for English-speaking audiences? As long as it does not prompt them to look for Mr. Sidney James on the ramparts of Valencia, I suppose it is. ...

... during thunderstorms, a fact which endears him to me more than anything else I know about him? Harpo Speaks is Harpo Marx's memoirs, and when he does speak, it is clearly not too easy for him to stop. Unfairly, one expects the great poetic unnervingly silent ...

... vear-old Avril Ticehurst. playing her first professional part as Red Riding Hood, steals the show whenever she appears. She speaks her lines and stngs her songs with confidence and charm so much so that many of the young audience are relieved when the principal ...

... deference to criticism, but simply because the plot dispenses altogether with a Prince Charming. Since King Cole has no history to speak of, Mr. Nesbitt's authors have been free to invent a history for him that is like all the fairy stories rolled into one. There ...

... moved to the sick-bay: he learns, now, that the ship has been mined an immediate evacuation is ordered. He and an Italian-speaking lieutenant remain aboard with the prisoners and when a tremendous explosion rips up Valiant's bows, all happily survive. ...

... LPs (OLPC1214) some fairly hefty cuts had to be made in the performance. Which means, of course, that it is not strictly speaking a complete recording, but for most people it will be complete enough. Cimarosa's opera, which is gay, cheerful and witty ...

... that in the sixteen years since his death, the inventor of Fascism was almost totally neglected by writers in the English- speaking world. Christopher Hibbert's BENITO MUSSOLINI (Longmans. 25s.) goes quite a way in repairing this omission. The author has ...

... Mr. Kirkup was invited to work for two years as English lecturer in a celebrated Japanese university. The book is, broadly speaking, a journal of the time he spent during those years, his impressions and the effect that the strange but to him perpetually ...