... taste for Greece. It is journal of life on the island c Ydra. Sometimes there ar memorable phrases, such as when the author speaks of th splendid wind that cracks th electric awnings of the restaur ants and of the dazing light that so astounds the traveller ...

... intimately, it would be difficult for him to detect the many undercurrents of hatred and bitterness. This is Michael Bird, speaking in The Secret Battalion (Muller, 25s.) of the High Savoy, in which, in 1944, parties of Frenchmen engaged many times their ...

... It proves impossible for him to explain to Miss Lisi that the whole thing's a ghast ly mistake she's Italian and doesn't speak a word of English and his attempts to assure the outraged Terry-Thomas that it's a mistake easily put right are coldly received ...

... Outdoor exercises Oliver Warner Would you credit that there were still some 10,000 true-blue Romany-speaking nomads in this country, yet none to speak of in Ireland, where they still so value the horse and the time less existence? I gather these facts ...

... the mime of picking something up. The exercises get more complex and are linked into short stories and sketches. The clowns speak and use all kinds of props. If this sounds techni cal and dull, the effect on an audience is quite the reverse: Something ...