Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith Evans set for the New York run. As Paris...
...newest book, published last September in Boulogne, he tries to express his idea of the city of the future in some 400 confused pages jammed with maps, plans, cartoons, old engravings, photographs. Slower minds could make little of it beyond the fact that he has not yet lost his skill in epi-grammatics. Excerpts...
Distinguished both as a scholar and as a man of letters, Dr. Flower has shown himself to be a post of high technical skill and fine feeling in his translations from Irish Poetry...
...undue attention is paid to the Romantics, who for some anthologizers are the only English poets, yet no less than the fitting amount of contributions from their pens are included. The editors, both of the prose volume and its poetry companion, have done their work with great skill. Splendidly printed and bound in the Oxford blue and gold, the collections are not only eminently useful from a scholarly standpoint but valuable in their well-presented opportunities for arm-chair enjoyment...
...loving virtuous, unambitious woman. Mr. Bary's answer is an unhesitating "no" and his play rives on to the inevitable tragedy. Hanna realizes that he can exist only for himself that he cannot make the compromise with his inner self which marriage necessitates. This problem is worked out with skill and directness but in so doing Mr. Barry frequently forgets that his characters are human and cannot be shunted about like chess-men. There is an abstract mechanical quality to the play, an over emphasis of problem and serious disregard of essential human complexities. Few human beings can be resolved...