... drops a small frog on the MS he is reading. Com plaining, reasonably enough, that he can't work in these circumstances he speaks forcibly to the old man, who then has his heart attack and is carried off to the house by his remorseful son. Luckily, this ...

... between them, refer with relish and monotonous regularity to the bashings they give their younger son and (theatrically speaking, the worst crime) shout and shout and shout. Miss Peggy Mount, as Ma Hesseltine, has her own mellow bellow which ranges from ...

... 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 ...

... knowing Mr. Hutton to be totally inexperienced where sex is concerned, diagnoses an acute case of first night anxiety and speaks soothingly of the period of adjustment which every married couple must endure. Mr. Franciosa doesn't make much head way with ...

... 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 ...

... particu lar order or sequence hut with a cumulative effect as impossible to ignore as hammer blows. Baal is a poet who sings or speaks or growls his poems to the plinking of his guitar. He is also a drunkard, a lecher and a wanderer. He uses women and discards ...

... have hung up my harp for my songs are all sung. He had indeed lost that magnificent voice three years earlier and even for speaking had only a hoarse whisper left. But before that he had had a career of fantastic success, had made a big fortune and spent ...

... wonderful sense of proportion. THE STRUGGLE OF THE MODERN (Hamish Hamilton. 25s.) by Mr. Stephen Spender is, very broadly speaking, a work of literary criticism and, more than that, an attempt to reassert the relationship of litera ture to modern life ...

... 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 ...

... already proved scores of times is beginning to become the wee-est bit of a bore. In The Wrong Arm of the Law he's at it igain speaking slightly fractured upper- class English as M. Jules, the Mayfair couturier, and coarsish Cockney as Pearly Cates, the backroom ...

... and accurately to life than her appealing phonetic Cockney spelling. The Life and Letters of Emma Hamilton lets the letters speak for her. When she scribbled at the bottom of a letter from Naples, Sir Was wrote you a few lines, the dear, untidy, generous ...

... 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 ...