... of entertainment is able to attract the public to a usually deserted building in rather an unprecedented way. Of course I speak of the audience as I found it. Possibly many of the giddy throng with which I mixed at the Queen's the other night had come ...

... girl life this, with some orthodox misfortunes, arising chiefly from an absence of that convenient quantity which only poets speak of nowadays as the root of all evil. Two orphan girls are adopted by a stem and mysterious woman of the stepmother in fiction ...

... Murray took over the part of Romeo at very short notice, the production was generally welcomed as an attempt to let the play speak for itself. It also gives theatre- lovers a chance to see again Dame Edith Evans as the Nurse. Romeo (Brian Murray) interrupts ...

... This is only well enough as far as it will go. 'or her breathless eagerness hardly gives ler time to speak what in the part must be conveyed by speaking rather than by act ig. This is one of the specks on an other-, ise delightful production by Mr. Glen ...

... falters only when the Wonder is attempting to speak of the future in terms of the present. And the surbordinate characters-are all well described. The Wonder's mother, subtly understanding the son who rarely speaks to her the father, Ginger Stott, who loathes ...

... friends. The guest batsman from London, so to speak, was Mr. Ernest Thesiger, who scored a century as Malvolio. Not only was he in good form, but suited the team to a T. Cunningly placed in the slips (still so to speak) were three experts of the Dolmetch school ...

... This arrangement has obviously its conveniences, seeing that while Signor Salvini, when he does speak, speaks Italian, all the rest of the company are to speak in English. Owing to Miss Ellen Terry's indisposition the character of Olivia in Mr. Wills's play ...

... minister, a chief secretary, the English secretary, Dr. Macartney (who speaks Chinese with wonderful facility), six under-secretaries, or attaches, and two interpreters. The latter speak English with singular idiomatic correctness, but their accent resembles ...

... in the Nile Desert y He; Pilgrimage, by Thos. Catling. London: John Murray.) (From 'page 974.) nisi bonum proviso, can he speak in all freedom of those who have gone before. It is a proof, then, of Mr. Catling s ability as a journalist that in his narrative ...

... except some fooling for the Martext- Audrey- Touchstone trio and we are lucky in an Orlando (John Neville) with a beautiful speaking voice, and in a young Rosalind (Virginia McKenna) who loves deeply, and who, as the weeks pass, will be merrier. The Arden ...

... g boor, arrogant and shoddy, reminds me of the modern poet's demented wrestler, with gorge full of phlegm. Kenneth Haigh speaks him with great vigour, and such people as Mary Ure (wife) and Helena Hughes (mistress) help us through the night. There is ...

... Hammond's j pouting Millamant, recites the articles of j matrimony and hears her reply, O horrid provisos Actress and actor speak this with the nicest finesse. Margaret Rutherford's J Wishfort (the old peeled wall is at least three times better than it ...