... quite quickly learn to speak out. Then this too will be a memorable performance. Static, brooding, hard and, above all, matter of fact, she taps her foot to summon the spirits that tend on mortal thought from beneath the earth, speaking urgently, hus kily ...

... expected when the film's principal speaking characters are dancers namely, Kirsten Simone and Mette Honningen. It makes one wonder, though, how Nadia Nerina and Ann Jenner, both comparable artists, would respond to speaking film roles. Because Ballerina is ...

... in simplicity of mimed expression, often reminds one of those Continental cartoons on the telly, where the characters never speak, but merely emit the occasional grunt or squeak to bolster-up the equally peculiar sound-effects. This is comedy of the rarest ...

... expect nor particularly want to. When the curtain rose on Das Rheingold at Covent Garden this week, a largely non- German-speaking public were committed to 16 hours of Teutonic philosophising in the original tongue, and an annual ritual which raises, in ...

... cheerful prospect for like myself who in the days of spring suddenly se that pretty young act- es are in short supply. rictly speaking this is not ely true there's Eileen ns in Sister George. Julia wood in Arsenic and Old Lyn Ashley and Jane loch in Charlie ...

... paper and paste with astonishing energy and artistic simplicity. This work, made a year earlier than the Tate's L'Escargot, speaks in a directly modern language, but with the traditional spirit of joyous, sensual, pastoral evocation that informed the great ...

... mean much to the crowd, unless they happen to be friends or rela tives. Although the names of the sport are, theoretically speaking, allowed to enter, the only ones who actually did ask for the regulation forms were warned that this was not an afternoon ...

... Treating You? 4 Hello Dolly! 5 An Ideal Husband On another page, Peter Darrell, artistic director of the Western Theatre Ballet, speaks of his urge to indicate that ballet has something to do with the theatre. Someone should do the same for opera. Many believe ...

... did. Dallia Penn. as the Other Woman, never became entirely real to me. Perhaps this was be cause the writer allowed Rob to speak at length about her bril liance as an artist but did not let her prove this to us herself. It was her ruthlessness and lust ...

... box office potential enough. But no. The makers have to have special appearances by John Wayne as a four-star general, speaking in a gravel drawl against a background of the American flag, and Frank Sinatra, as a cocky American pilot who gives his life ...

... feeling that I am trying to define there is, in the visual arts at least, something more specific and symbolic. Art always speaks by metaphor and every image has meaning on more than one level of understanding. For example, in a Flemish portrait a single ...

... houses, the Proms, and a ceaseless parade of visiting and fringe events. Foreign ers are not merely flattering when they speak of the musical capital of the world. Next week the Festival con dition becomes official, with the third City of London Festival ...