The Cinema: Some Plain Speaking
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... on galleries ROBERT WRAIGHT TOWARDS PLAIN SPEAKING Last April, when The Studio celebrated its 70th birthday, it published many eulogistic mes sages from leading figures of the art world. Most of these leading figures were old men and they paid tribute ...
... THE CINEMA Penny-plain Speaking By JAMES AGATE THE other day I read that the captivating Mile. Anna bella is in England and that she had been discovered by an interviewer in the new studios at Denham looking strangely pale and surrounded by cameras and ...
... RELATIVELY SPEAKING A STAR-STUDDED cast recently filled the Questors Theatre in Ealing for the professional debut of Simon MacCorkindale's new company, Pendant Entertainments Productions, in Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. The play includes all the ...
... I Speaking as a non-Zen Buddhist Robert Wraight To tell a serious artist that his work is very tasteful is just about the most damning thing you can say these days and I shall therefore refrain from saying it about the exhibition of paintings by Luigi ...
... LET THERE BE ANTHOLOGIES --By Vernon Fane Speak for England, the Ideal Reading Matter for the Soldier Bookworm NOTHING like a war to set publishers dreaming dreams of books to tell you all about it, books to make you forget it, books to explain how it ...
... A Historv of the English-Speaking Peonies. Volume II The New World, by Winston S. Churchill (Cassell, 30s). Unquali fied to give a critic's view of this new volume of a mighty work, and unwilling to read it at more than a student's pace, I will merely ...
... CHURCHILL SPEAKS The Latest Collection of the Prime Minister's Speeches Edited by Randolph Churchill That the massive prose of Winston Churchill will stand the test of time there is no question, for his is the grand manner; and to what advantage did he ...
... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This ...
... Churchill in action, but of those three only the powerful figure of Stalin remained to over shadow the latter Conferences. SPEAKING FRANKLY (Heinemann. 21s.) is Mr. Byrnes's personal record of those Conferences and of his period of office as Secretary of ...
... THE EX-CROWN PRINCE SEEKS THE TRUTH. Little Willie Speaks Out Poincare's Pre-war Memories The Declitie of Socialism THE WEEK'S BOOKS I Seek The Truth. By the ex-Crown Prince William of Germany. (Faber Gwyer. 21s. net.) The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare ...