Motion picture acting (1947)

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MOTION PICTURE ACTING if it comes; and what could be more natural than that Drake should flash into her mind? It is as though she were breathing a prayer, "Oh, God, for a Drake to turn the Germans back as he drove the Spanish Armada, in utter rout, back onto the rocky coast of France." She speaks the name of Drake with utmost reverence. It is only for a few seconds that she allows that thought to cloud her mind and voice. She turns quickly to the natural beauties of forest and meadow, but when she speaks of "the larks that will sing here tomorrow, high in the sun—tomor- row and forever," it is as if she were saying, "They can't sing here now—the gunfire and the bombs have frightened them away—but they shall sing here again, not only tomorrow but forever!" At once, she breaks away from that, and speaks lightly of the "shout of a newsboy on the corner, or the sound of a taxi horn." This naturally brings her face to face with the thought of the destruc- tion wrought in the cities, and she cannot keep that concern out of her voice as she speaks of their "age and dignity." She sums up all these more trivial aspects of England, and says, "If I said it was all those things, he would laugh—because words have said it so often before." 114