... systematic murder of the Jews in their thousands and tens of thousands. He and Father Riccardo were urging that the Pope should speak out, that he should condemn Hitler and that the papal attitude should be made plain before the world. It is a matter of history ...

... Warwick being presented more as a brutal soldier determined on Joan's execution than a subtle king-maker, and the Bishop speaking with the easy but complete authority of the Church. Between them, as War wick's ranting and bigoted chaplain, Mr. Frank Finlay ...

... he could and then when he had reached middle age, decided to live among the Italians, who have given up such illusions. SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE LIKE A NATIVE (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) is the book which is one of the results of Mr. Menen's long Italian stay ...

... in im moderate terms against those who stopped the Minister in his tracks. They are content to let the rather dreary facts speak for themselves. The last has certainly not been heard of Mr McDermott, a man of talent by many people's reckoning and probably ...

... pronouncements, this is a flat-footed pro duction of Othello. To be straightforward with such a play and to allow the poetry to speak and sing for itself is permissible only in theory, yet it occasionally appears that that is precisely what Mr. Casper Wrede ...

... tax produced the larger surplus for distribution to shareholders) but Mr. W. Longman gave an optimistic view of prospects, speaking towards the end of 1962. Ranking larger than Longmans in terms of assets but recently showing smaller profits is the Gla ...

... poems or as we'd say in our square way nowadays, twenty- one poems for a woman who has to try to sing as though she were speaking and speak as though she were singing all at the same time. It is all very difficult and sounds like it. The two remaining works ...

... plans to leave for Perth in the autumn of this year Chief Kola Balogun, the Chairman of the Nigeria National Shipping Line, speaks at a luncheon in Newcastle-upon-Tyne after the launch from the Walker yard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson of the M/V ...

... Cubism a doctrine for others to follow. Of those landscapes of 1908 and 1909, that first provoked the critic Vaux- celles to speak of cubes and cubist bizarreries, Picasso has said, When we painted as we did, we had no intention of creating Cubism but only ...

... cleaning policy pursued in recent years. The exhibition is, as Sir Philip points out, largely one of cleaned pictures. As such it speaks eloquently far more eloquently than any expert could-- in favour of cleaning. BULLERIES ...

... into abstraction M returned with a conviction the future of painting is ■end up with the recognizable N. But when an artist speaks of a recognizable laa=e we must not imagine he tans realism or naturalism 'be old sense. Frequently in these new Kinleys large ...

... The great painters of royalty were not overawed by their sitters because they were themselves kings in their own sphere. Speaking of spheres reminds me that Geoffrey Fletcher, whose drawings have graced The Sphere for many years, has a one-man show of ...