... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... what it is worth, is claimed as the most expensive black-and-white film ever made. The huge cast includes 57 stars and 1 67 speaking parts. The list is so long that it seems to the jaundiced eye that everyone in the film world has done his bit, as they ...

... an audience grate ful for a genuine singer's voice in a cast which, for the most part, is doing a Pro fessor Higgins and speaking the lyrics against a musical background. Relent lessly plugged as this song is, it is still not so much a hit as a near miss ...

... leading ladies are ver legant charmers and handle their love affairs with a certain discreti There are at present no manners to speak of and hardly any morals id we are not surprised to learn from Miss Dundy that back stage tl mailer and the youngest of the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... cover many subjects, such as death and rebirth, the nature of man, suffering and life in the world. On all of them the Sage speaks with wisdom and considerable humanity. Some of the dialogues have a humour all their own: Devotee: I have a toothache. Is ...

... Portugal almost no English is spoken. What Our oldest allies? And then I tried to remember one person I knew just one who could speak Portu guese. But it is a delightful book. First in the list of novels this week, for more reasons than one, is Miss Margery ...

... paper-backs, with pride of place going perhaps to the first two volumes of Sir Winston Churchill's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE. Both are published by Cassell at 10s. net. Volume I, The Birth of Britain, takes us to the end of the reign of Richard ...