... 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 ...

... agree. THE MUSIC MAKERS (Michael Joseph. 21s.) is Mr. Sidney Harrison's book on the lives of great composers from, roughly speak ing, Palestrina to George Gershwin, and it is as readable, in its clearly-phrased way, as many a novel. The author discusses ...

... involving spying and counter- spying, and he survives its dangers and stresses by a process of either holding his tongue or speaking what is only the simple truth. He observes the new world of secrets, perils and hidden meanings and decides that is meaning ...

... Caliban, as played by George Selway, looks no more frightening than an unfrocked friar with partial alopecia and, although he speaks the words of the noble earth spirit, we never think of him as anything more than Prospero's naughty pet ape. The comics ...

... being shut away with someone in the thick of a nervous collapse, which is indeed what the whole thing is about. Characters speak fluently, indeed non-stop, but obliquely, twistedly, under great pres sure and often apparently at random. There is a good ...

... 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 ...

... joking about his own affliction in his Portrait of the painter as a deaf man (No. 30) is saying sharply, Eh? What d'you say? Speak up, man. And in his last self-portrait, The artist in old age (No. 31) he is asking, Good heavens, is that really me?. Then ...