... 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 ...

... Murray took over the part of Romeo at very short notice, the production was generally welcomed as an attempt to let the play speak for itself. It also gives theatre- lovers a chance to see again Dame Edith Evans as the Nurse. Romeo (Brian Murray) interrupts ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... fairies are cast as small boys; the timbre of their voices is part of the haunting world of Oberon and Tytania. Puck is a speaking part, played by a boy acrobat, Nicolas Chagrin. This originality of treatment extends to the lovers, who are seen as a group ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 returned with a conviction that the future of painting is bound up with the recognizable image. But when an artist today speaks of a recognizable image we must not imagine he means realism or naturalism in the old sense. Frequently in these new Ivinleys ...

... 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 ...

... survey by Sir Percival Griffiths Sir Percival Griffiths, in assessing THE CHANG ING FACE OF COMMUNISM (Bodley Head. 21s.), speaks and writes with the authority stem ming from many visits to the Asian countries where Russia and China are most anxious to ...