... Press Jury Astaire always knew what he was doing which was more than could be said for this show. It ended with the machine speaking for the third time, linking Claude Boiling at the piano. Nothing was striking in any way about it. ...

... characterization something lo be remcmbcied The part of Cassius is played very well by Alan Allkins. an actor who appreciates the speaking of verse, and John Shrapnel is inipos- I ee. Simon Ward, Derek Clarke. Michael Butcher and Mivluiel John son. For ihc first ...

... Switzerland The Apple, 28 minutes BACK to Adam and Eve again, this time with an allegory with no speaking and little music. Just before this pantomime, however we got some primordial images set to music; this became leaves, a man and woman in green cloth ...

... baritones in the Wells company, and he here shows himself to be a con siderable comedian as well, with an admiiably varied speaking voice. Anna I'ollak., always notable foi her clear enunciation and sharply defined sense of character, is a veritable Edith ...

... Theatre Club, presented a revival of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset. The group of young players, sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, the American Correspondents' Association and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. who have put on this production, deserve ...

... the peasants a spark of desire to continue the struggle. The producer. Nugent Monck. has been content to allow the play to speak for itself Certainly it does this in no mean measure, and It must be confessed that many of the speeches are lengthy chunks ...

... good as a philandering hero He misses no opportunity, and ho sings well. Jeannetti Ma* Donald make* a beautiful Queen. She speaks well, but i* not ro satisfactory when it comos to singing. Especially welJ rendered are the military numbers. ITEMS. Although ...

... George Robey's, these should prove a very popular item Robey's tj.n tested some twelve minutes, with song and patter, and the speaking: part of the picture was a*s ex-el lent as the photo graphy There are quite the 'best things of the kind we have seen. Argosy ...

... as the villainous old evangelist Kelly, or as Larrabeo in his last moments. Jack MacDonald as a Mysterious Stranger also speaks^ clearlv. and the same can bo said of Robert Ames as a newspaper man. Hal- 'am Coolcy and John Loder vary. This may be on ...

... hundred picture houses where the picture is lei. While it is being run off centrally, the actors of the oast are assembled, and speak the oramat/iat's dialogue while watch ing themselvee act, so that they exactly synchronise with tno play as it proceeds; and ...

... proprietorship. These vicissitudes seem rather to have upset stich equilibrium as the Era may have, for in an article this week it speaks of 44 its rivals who are rapidly succumbing. This amusing re ference must be to the other film journals, which do not appear ...

... the longest short talkies on record, Harry Lauder. The idea of the tirm is to let the artist who wUhcs to go into 44 talkies speak into a microphone and then lot him hear tho accurate reproduction of his own voice. Instruction in how to do this 44 broadcasting ...