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... Speak to the Earth, by Fivienne de TV atteville (Methuen, 15s.) FEW people can ever have spent five months in East Africa more profitably than Miss de Watteville. Her love of Nature and all the inmates of the natural world is not merely keen it is flaming ...
... THE GIFT THAT SPEAKS by Elizabeth Bowen CHRISTMAS book buying, I find, may be fraught with last-moment indecisions. Against how many names on our shopping list may we not have, happily, scribbled Book?-- and for the time, that had seemed to be that ...
... SYMBOLICALLY SPEAKING-- is not enough says C. A. UEJEUAE A HOLLYWOOD executive has just made a highly significant remark. Now that the innovation of the large-size picture has been accepted, he says, we can again place emphasis on the story. The italics ...
... Personally Speaking By A Jan Thomas THE TESTAMENT OF JOAD, by C. E. M. Joad (Faber and Faber; 8s. 6d.), is not an inspired work, because Mr. Joad himself says he is not inspired. He is, on the other hand, so intellectually detached that he makes a brilliant ...
... Africa Speaks By V. S. Pritchett NOBODY cares much, or even knows, what happens to us down here behind God's back, said a settler in Tanganyika, and so gave a title to Mr. Negley Farson, the itinerant American transgressor. Behind God's Back (Gollancz; ...
... CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING Good THE musical programmes of the recent past. The First Night of the Proms was notable for an inspired performance of Rach maninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 by Moiseiwitsch, accompanied beautifully by the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra ...
... THE CINEMA Personally Speaking By JAMES AGATE ONE of the strong est pulls the cinema has over the theatre is the fore knowledge that from the film goer not the most fractional bit of cerebration will be required. Let the attention wander in the theatre ...
... do you think Speaking as a Party member, Preminger said. I approve of your brother's attitude, Charley. Nuts, Charley said. Speaking as a man, Charley, Preminger went on. Please put Lueger on his back for at least six months. Speaking as a man that ...
... CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING Good The violently controversial Elizabethan Evening's Diversion. In fact, very good indeed. From the start it was quite obvious that much time, thought and work had gone into the assurance that all the items were absolutely authentic ...
... The Snow Queen speaks ■1WM1B MISS MARY MCCARTHY IS A FORMIDABLE LADY who has written novels, criticism, the memoirs of her girlhood, a certain amount of coldly alarming journalism, and, most unexpectedly, a book on Venice, a city with an appeal too lush ...
... Speaking For Myself EDINBURGH MAGGIE Kinloch, new director of the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, has chosen well in combining these two monologues into a thoughtful and amusing double-bill, and in Phil McCall and Alyxis Daly she has two actors who inhabit ...
... The Cinema Some Plain Speaking I By JAMES AGATE IN a week singularly barren of the usual epoch-making, world smashing, and Creation-staggering new talkies I have been delighted to receive a copy of a speech delivered in the American House of Representatives ...