... cellar in an access of drunken passion, and she slices a couple of table napkins in two with a Samurai sword. The hero (so to speak) is also the narrator and a thoroughly odious fellow who thinks he ought to have been a don and gives his mistress Italian ...

... told, that they don't turn a hair if a flat- voiced, level-spoken American actor like, say, the excellent Mr. Henry Fonda speaks in the voice of an operatic Milanese, but ever since I heard a Russian Desdemona cheeping away like a South Kensington sparrow ...

... poems or as we'd say in our square way nowadays, twenty- one poems for a woman who has to try to sing as though she were speaking and speak as though she were singing all at the same time. It is all very difficult and sounds like it. The two remaining works ...

... in simplicity of mimed expression, often reminds one of those Continental cartoons on the telly, where the characters never speak, but merely emit the occasional grunt or squeak to bolster-up the equally peculiar sound-effects. This is comedy of the rarest ...

... expect nor particularly want to. When the curtain rose on Das Rheingold at Covent Garden this week, a largely non- German-speaking public were committed to 16 hours of Teutonic philosophising in the original tongue, and an annual ritual which raises, in ...

... cheerful prospect for like myself who in the days of spring suddenly se that pretty young act- es are in short supply. rictly speaking this is not ely true there's Eileen ns in Sister George. Julia wood in Arsenic and Old Lyn Ashley and Jane loch in Charlie ...

... paper and paste with astonishing energy and artistic simplicity. This work, made a year earlier than the Tate's L'Escargot, speaks in a directly modern language, but with the traditional spirit of joyous, sensual, pastoral evocation that informed the great ...

... mean much to the crowd, unless they happen to be friends or rela tives. Although the names of the sport are, theoretically speaking, allowed to enter, the only ones who actually did ask for the regulation forms were warned that this was not an afternoon ...

... Treating You? 4 Hello Dolly! 5 An Ideal Husband On another page, Peter Darrell, artistic director of the Western Theatre Ballet, speaks of his urge to indicate that ballet has something to do with the theatre. Someone should do the same for opera. Many believe ...

... did. Dallia Penn. as the Other Woman, never became entirely real to me. Perhaps this was be cause the writer allowed Rob to speak at length about her bril liance as an artist but did not let her prove this to us herself. It was her ruthlessness and lust ...

... the most compulsive beat of the acts featured. But was all that guitar-waving really necessary? Such an exciting rhythm can speak for itself. Gene Pitney, the young American singer who looks like actor Anthony Perkins, gave a dramatic performance of his ...

... box office potential enough. But no. The makers have to have special appearances by John Wayne as a four-star general, speaking in a gravel drawl against a background of the American flag, and Frank Sinatra, as a cocky American pilot who gives his life ...