... 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 ...

... deference to criticism, but simply because the plot dispenses altogether with a Prince Charming. Since King Cole has no history to speak of, Mr. Nesbitt's authors have been free to invent a history for him that is like all the fairy stories rolled into one. There ...

... moved to the sick-bay: he learns, now, that the ship has been mined an immediate evacuation is ordered. He and an Italian-speaking lieutenant remain aboard with the prisoners and when a tremendous explosion rips up Valiant's bows, all happily survive. ...

... LPs (OLPC1214) some fairly hefty cuts had to be made in the performance. Which means, of course, that it is not strictly speaking a complete recording, but for most people it will be complete enough. Cimarosa's opera, which is gay, cheerful and witty ...

... that in the sixteen years since his death, the inventor of Fascism was almost totally neglected by writers in the English- speaking world. Christopher Hibbert's BENITO MUSSOLINI (Longmans. 25s.) goes quite a way in repairing this omission. The author has ...

... Mr. Kirkup was invited to work for two years as English lecturer in a celebrated Japanese university. The book is, broadly speaking, a journal of the time he spent during those years, his impressions and the effect that the strange but to him perpetually ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... before Albeniz's Iberia and also includes music originally written for piano. Here is a fine example of a French composer speaking Spanish as fluently and convincingly as a native and, by saying a great deal more in the end, proving the point I made at ...

... a permanent means of establishing contact between jurists from all African states, especially between French- and English-speaking jurists. Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah. President of the Republic of Ghana, who declared the conference open, said that law, to be ...

... Howard St. John) in Atlanta, Georgia. This is perfectly O.K. by me, too but it appals me that Mr. Cagney might be understood to speak for the average American when he makes such cracks as I wouldn't touch a Russian with a 1 0-foot pole and I wouldn't touch ...

... 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 ...