... The fourth actress captured Max Siriol Hugh- Jones AS THE LEAVES DRIFT ANKLE-HIGH in the gutters, so do the bookshops start to silt up with the great pre- Christmas flood. Booksellers at this time of year develop a sort of built-in flinch, as of a man ...

... THE CINEMA Little Woman, Oreat Actress By JAMES AGATE SOME little time ago the papers were all predicting that the Bright Young Things would presently go out of fashion. It was ever thus. When the 'nineties petered out it was in favour of the excited ...

... Actresses Will Happen 99 Apollo By Herbert Farjeon TO complete the old saying, as modernised by Walter Ellis for the purposes of this farce, Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. And even when they don't, they may yearn to happen, as ...

... reception given to a world-famous screen actress I had to ask somebody to point her out! I saw a dumpish little creature with the mien and presence of a second housemaid. Yet I had just written of this actress that she has acquired so much poise that ...

... when he found that a group of elderly but still active and popular actresses would be willing to play the parts. So we have Dame Sybil Thorndike and Miss Marie Lohr as two actresses who loved the same man, have not spoken to each other for 30 years and ...

... Duse did. And here is Miss Dilys Powell in The Sunday Times Whether or not Greta Garbo is a good actress I have no idea, but I am sure she is a great actress. The good actor has the chameleon's ability of matching his surroundings; his colour changes to ...

... as to the relative merits of real actresses and film-actresses seems to me to be as much beside the point as to tell me when I am admiring Helvellyn that Everest is higher. Of course Bern hardt was a much better actress than Hepburn on the other hand we ...

... hold the boards when an actress of sufficient power treads them and fails. Of Mile. Yvonne Printemps's performance in the film at the Academy I speak grievingly because, like anybody else, 1 recognise what an exquisite little actress she can be when she is ...

... the good of the show. I once knew an actress who consented to have her name billed in smaller type than that originally stipulated on con dition that she received a handsome addi tion to her salary. Whether an actress who considered herself entitled to ...

... been focused too much on the man and not enough on the woman. I have been blamed for comparing present-day actresses with the famous great actresses of the past. I have been told that it is because I am senile and gaga, that I do not consider Miss Tippet ...

... concern the efforts of backwoodsmen to turn a barren plain into a citv or the efforts of voung women to turn themselves into actresses by ploughing the talentless field. With her, as they say in the Law Courts£ is Mr. Kaufman, the greatest living wise-cracker ...

... nervous and inexperienced actress of the mimic play scene (which is played for laughter), and she rises surprisingly well to the difficult final scene in which the seagull realizes that now all her dreams gone away she is an actress or nothing, whether fated ...