... servility towards the toffs who take his social educa tion in hand but an eagerness to learn their customs of behaviour and to speak proper. All this conveyed with that engaging quality which is Mr. Steele's particular gift to the theatre. Arthur Kipps is ...

... the Spanish Ambassador described this artist as one of the best (he may even have said greatest) in Spain it is my duty to speak up and contradict him. Durancamps is at best a sort of third-rate Frank Brangwyn, at worst a painter of the kind of furnishing ...

... bought them for well over thirty years, during our married life, in which work and leisure have been synonymous. When we speak of The Impressionists we are inclined to think only of the handful of great ones and to forget the many very good painters ...

... choices of word: sanguine, for instance, hasn't the same meaning as sanguinary, and British Am bassadors are unlikely to speak of being given jolly old what-for, but these must be very minor slips in a book of these dimensions and, I would say, sincerity ...

... for a few hours in a tent taken for the purpose. Their second and last kip was near Penrith. Their account of the journey speaks of glimpsing the cold glittering sea at mid night at Charmouth in Dorset; of the prison lights at Princetown appearing through ...

... talent to telling the story of some more remote forbears, the Bussons, and has chosen to give the saga the form of a novel. Speaking as an addict of unadorned, and preferably unromanticised, biographies, I could wish that Miss du Maurier's new book were ...

... in the balance of the play and serves to make Brutus very truly the noblest Roman of them all. Which is a good moment to speak of Mr. Tom Fleming's nobly sincere Brutus, having something of the weight and im- pressiveness of a young Godfrey Tearle (this ...

... lished Works: Chapman and Hall, 25s., has been edited by Mi'. Jocelyn Brooke, who also contributes an introduction in which he speaks of this young writer (Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33) as a true original his every utterance has an air of being entirely ...

... 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 ...

... a bad performance: on the contrary he plays the misguided and pigheaded Ambas sador splendidly, and for once every word he speaks is audible. From the way he raps out ringing lines like Confusion, ignorance and indifference will cease as from this moment ...

... 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 ...

... with a strong flavour of incest, and the lady in the case a most strange boss-character who alternately weeps and shouts and speaks a language on the edge of being totally private. The heroine in this case is called Stella Vass about the sexiest thing I've ...