... The Snow Queen speaks ■1WM1B MISS MARY MCCARTHY IS A FORMIDABLE LADY who has written novels, criticism, the memoirs of her girlhood, a certain amount of coldly alarming journalism, and, most unexpectedly, a book on Venice, a city with an appeal too lush ...

... on galleries ROBERT WRAIGHT TOWARDS PLAIN SPEAKING Last April, when The Studio celebrated its 70th birthday, it published many eulogistic mes sages from leading figures of the art world. Most of these leading figures were old men and they paid tribute ...

... I Speaking as a non-Zen Buddhist Robert Wraight To tell a serious artist that his work is very tasteful is just about the most damning thing you can say these days and I shall therefore refrain from saying it about the exhibition of paintings by Luigi ...

... 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 ...

... source of inspira tion, and it will speak to you in its own language, the language of sculpture. What it says to each individual will vary and may have little resemblance to what he wants it to say, but it will speak with force to all but the mentally ...

... systematic murder of the Jews in their thousands and tens of thousands. He and Father Riccardo were urging that the Pope should speak out, that he should condemn Hitler and that the papal attitude should be made plain before the world. It is a matter of history ...

... that most people now accept the conven tion of actors speaking proper English when they are playing foreigners, whereas hearing Eng lish actors putting on accents when they are meant to be speaking a foreign language is both instrusive and inconsistent ...

... convicted embezzler, remains year after year immured in the same house with the wife he has dis graced and who will not see him or speak to him. Ibsen contrived for the tomb-like drawing-room in which the twin sisters sit exchang ing barbed memories of the past ...

... quite quickly learn to speak out. Then this too will be a memorable performance. Static, brooding, hard and, above all, matter of fact, she taps her foot to summon the spirits that tend on mortal thought from beneath the earth, speaking urgently, hus kily ...

... expected when the film's principal speaking characters are dancers namely, Kirsten Simone and Mette Honningen. It makes one wonder, though, how Nadia Nerina and Ann Jenner, both comparable artists, would respond to speaking film roles. Because Ballerina is ...

... capable of doing is to spe; the blank verse of Shakespeare unaffectedly, as boys and underg; dilates have often been heard to speak it, trusting that given a good 'livery of the verse the interest of drama and character auto matical i follow. Mr. Richardson ...

... Warwick being presented more as a brutal soldier determined on Joan's execution than a subtle king-maker, and the Bishop speaking with the easy but complete authority of the Church. Between them, as War wick's ranting and bigoted chaplain, Mr. Frank Finlay ...