... Hb, by Sid Cofia (Efca Tree Books, £8.95) The trouble with EUa Fitzgerald is that her music speaks for her mure eloquent ly than words can ever do. The most technically accomplished jaa jyr of our tune, and one whose records have frequently passed across ...

... Caught In the Act, by Richard Todd (Hutchinson, £12.95); Permission to Speak, by Clive Dunn (Century, £10 95^ It might be thought strange that these two books of autobiography have been coupled together. Both these actors, however widely differing in ...

... Star Speak: Hollywood on Every thing, by Doug McClelland (Faber and Faber, £9.95) You won't learn a great deal about Hollywood or its stars from these hundreds of anecdotes and one-liners spoken during the past 60 years by actors and directors. Some of ...

... Shakespeare's plays away from their i speaking in order to find special, and also simple, eloquence in other aspects. Movement, personal props, cos tumes and actual stage areas of all sizes are shown as speaking their own lan guage, importantly and.richly ...

... Drive, Menston, Ilklcy, West Yorks LS29 6NT) Examples of work specially written to provide students with experience of choral speaking. The term platform drama is used because these short pieces can be staged for special occa sions, though they are essentially ...

... dandled on the knee by a father whose selfishness and extravagance repelled all his children. It was the American-born, Welsh speak ing Walter's wit and yarn-spinning that one supposes influenced his son's immense articulateness in person and on the page ...

... Kumiega, who has a Polish father, speaks the language and has both worked and studied with Grotows ki, delves deeply into her subject, excites our interest in this mysterious man but fails to convince us that his work speaks to anyone who is not prepared ...

... £4.95 paperback) The Macmillan Modern Dramatists series resumes with an examination of the German (more strictly, German- speaking) playwrights who rose to prominence in the seventies. Unfortunately, of the seven discussed by Professor Calandra, three ...

... affected his music, but not his out put. which was that of a born com poser. willing to work over the wid est field. Public Speaking, by Dennis Castle and John Wade (Hodder and Stoughton, paperback, £1.25) Two very well-known members of the entertainment ...

... novelist and playwright. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Priestley kept one foot firmly on the ground and proved he could speak to the common man through his wartime broadcasts. As a dramatist, it seems now as though he will endure far more than many ...

... scale of the monument is most pressive. The epigraph wittily quotes from Othello, one of Robeson's most famous roles: Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate. Nor set down aught in malice. From the beginning, Robeson was recognised as a leader, not ...

... d£but as the Mar- shallin. Her autobiography, published last year in her native Sweden, is in translation a gentle affair, speaking ill of hardly anyone and yet revealing the difficulties ?which beset the path of any singer on the international circuit ...