... The intensely observed portraits, the dazzling, luminous still-lifes, the solemn, speculative and dignified children, all speak of the introspective, brooding and tenderly ruthless eye that looked at them so searcliingly and with juliet mcleod, the horse ...

... Square. And though I am still no nearer learning his secret it is satisfying to have, at last, met him in the paint, so to speak. Meditation by the sea is the work of that ubiquitous artist Anonymous, an artist who, judging by the size of the part he ...

... reminis cence of a festival of the seasons in ancient Tokyo, one or two cere monial festivities there is little else left to speak for the No or the Kabuki drama. In the place of these bygone indigenous entertainments there is offered the kind of exoticism ...

... 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 ...

... slator, faced with no mean task, seems to me now and again to have abandoned hope, as in sentences like this (the narrator is speaking about why he is writing the book): I must look for the reasons, find out by what devious ways, what hardly perceptible movements ...

... Joan. Mr. rian's inquisitor is really a sort of tench Stogumber who does not coi off as a joke, but the Prince Henri d Conde speaks for the French i bility, as Warwick spoke for the nglish barons, and is splendidly pi ed by Mr. Derek Godfrey. VERDICTS john ...

... properly dramatized. They are too often left to a small side-chorus of washerwomen when they might be left more advantageously to speak for themselves in action. But the spirit that informs the whole thing is irresistible and the constant applause it elicits ...

... point of Moomin and feel it all some obscure Finnish jest. I, ...

... and authors. And The American Civil War is a smashing gallop through history taken from Churchill's History of the English- Speaking Peoples, Volume IV, with extraordinary photographs. It seems likely that this particular war was one of the few the author ...

... has a young brother who because he lisps will hardly be bothered to speak at all. But the excitement of owning a trombone gives the lad an interest in life. He not only begins to speak but to sing, and Mr. Denis Waterman sings Gary, Indiana most takingly ...

... intellect which is 100 per cent evident in everything he did. Sir David Eccles, in a foreword to the exhibition catalogue, speaks glowingly of Nash's English- ness. He is right, of course, but it is the Englishness of the truism that we are a cold ...

... Green, who would be astonished to find how the old place has changed since he went away, says that in films only characters speaking B.B.C. English are to be taken seriously, and that England does not take Ernest Bevin or Gracie Fields or D. II. Lawrence ...