... It is, rather, a plea for the painting to be allowed first to speak for itself in somewhat the same way as (if I have understood him correctly) Bertolt Brecht always hoped that he might speak through his actors to his audience, an ideal audience with hearts ...

... Catherine BBC, January 24. TECHNICALLI speaking, mis was one of the most successful of the Teletale productions. It was a fascinating example of what James Mac-Taggart described in Television Today recently as pushing the studio walls back. To say the ...

... Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He became New York's favourite figure abused, caricatured, burlesqued and loved. This, roughly speaking, is his career story set to music and enthusiastically if inappropriately played and sung by actors who, in the many moments ...

... does not come through the dialogue. Yet it is in the early part of the play, when nothing is happening but Dame Sybil is speaking almost continuously, that the attention is most firmly held. She is explaining the tenets of her simple and exacting faith ...

... His actions and statements are frequently in the news and his intentions may not always be properly understood. His book, I SPEAK OF FREEDOM (Heinemann. 25s.), should help to clear away such misunderstandings. It has the sub-title A Statement of African ...

... pronouncements, this is a flat-footed pro duction of Othello. To be straightforward with such a play and to allow the poetry to speak and sing for itself is permissible only in theory, yet it occasionally appears that that is precisely what Mr. Casper Wrede ...

... killed by the fling ing of a stray stone before she speaks the words which could set him free from his obsession. Here we have an incompre hensible and therefore, I think, a weak situation dramatically speaking, since there is no valid reason why any of these ...

... Outdoor exercises Oliver Warner Would you credit that there were still some 10,000 true-blue Romany-speaking nomads in this country, yet none to speak of in Ireland, where they still so value the horse and the time less existence? I gather these facts ...

... for some criticism, but I found it exactly right for someone who wanted to improve herself and had made untutored efforts to speak better. Joss Ackland had a problem on his hands with the role of Norman. The husband could so easily have been played as no ...

... us on various subjects in the manner of a television university lecturer. He has Evely introduced his point and then, so to speak, reappeared made up to act his views. I don't think enough comedy has been extracted from this role of lecturer -Baxter, the ...

... tax produced the larger surplus for distribution to shareholders) but Mr. W. Longman gave an optimistic view of prospects, speaking towards the end of 1962. Ranking larger than Longmans in terms of assets but recently showing smaller profits is the Gla ...

... Cargill carried off his dual rdle with an air that made me warm towards him. I like a character who confides in me, so to speak, and my only grievance about Mr. Cargill's performance, is that some o(f his murmured asides were hard to catch. In a classic ...