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... THE BOOKS YOU READ The Winding Lane, by Sir Philip Gibbs (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) Terminus, by Doris Leslie (Hurst Blackett, 7s. 6d.) Alter War, by Ludwig Renn. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir (Seeker, 7s. 6d.) Soldiers and Women, by Otto Bernhard Wendler. Translated by Ian F. D. Morrow (Allen Unwin, 7s. 6d.) WHEN the complete, the really complete, history of fiction comes to be written and ...
... GENTLE SCOTT.-- The centenary of the death of the author of Waverley is hard upon us. No doubt it will be celebrated with appro priate rites, and not only in his own land or among his ow ...
... COLLECTING MODERN BOOKS Prices, pleasures and pitfalls in the first-edition hobby Modern First Editions Points and Values, by Gilbert Fabes. (Foyle, out of print.) Modern First Editions Points and Val ...
... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE HOLBORN. Following on a long succession of individually managed cabarets and first-class acts, the Holborn has again acquired Gordon Marsh and his Marshmallow Girls, who will present their cabaret for a month. As before, a strong nautical .lavour predominates in this produced and dressed show. It is of the lightning order, and no time is lost. The whole ...
... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE DANCE. Dancing is in full swing in hundreds of places, both great and small, from the aristocratic floor of the Grosvenor House to the dingy but no less jolly palais de danse of the far East End. Gala nights are weekly occurrences, and few are considered complete without cabaret, while bands are in groat demand. Oovent Garden, which rumour says will end its ...
... Qur Oft** Qrtc on DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS. The Gate Theatre Studio THE desire of every person is perfect liberty for himself, though as to his neigh bour-- well, he must have notice of that question. It seems that our theatre managers exist in a state of perfect freedom. When thev wish to produce a play they submit it to the Lord Chamberlain, and, having got his consent, they can flourish ...
... Qur Oc on THE MAN IN POSSESSION (Ambassadors Theatre). THE present entertainment at the Ambassadors is in that earlier form of curtain-raiser followed by principal piece. As often happened in the past two directly opposite plays are selected. It used to be considered necessary to harrow up the soul of any audience which had come principally to see a wild and abandoned farce with a hors ...
... 0UT Of1'05 (j)C on THE CATEIEDRAL (New Theatre). THIS is an interesting play which is a credit to our stage. I hesitate to call it a deserving play, because such a term might frighten the public away from a drama which would very likely entertain them. If you call a man a well-meaning man he is apt to feel insulted and if you speak of a play as deserving it is usually taken to refer to ...
... OOP*01* 0% on NIPPY (The Prince Edward Theatre NIPPY is housed in one of the big new theatres which are springing up in the West End in apparent defiance of the statements so often made that theatrical ventures spell bankruptcy, and were it not that new little theatres are also coming into existence simultaneously we should begin to think the day of pleasant intimacy between audience and ...
... Our Of1'0*5 Cjrt*c on WILD VIOLETS (Drury Lane Theatre). THESE schoolgirls in uniform are called violets because they learn, (to flirt and dance at any rate) at the Chateau Violette, and they are called wild for no worse reason than that they are very wild indeed. Their wildness makes their headmistress wild too, but cannot make her a violet. The essential exaggeration ol tne stage is wen ...
... Qur Of*005 Qrtc on DISHONOURED LADY (at the Playhouse WE seem to be having a glut of bad girls just now on the stage, not the abandoned creatures who play second fiddle and are placed there in order to make the virtues of the heroine stick fiery off indeed, but girls who, though they are the principal feminine characters, cannot behave themselves properly. This Way to Paradise wallowed in ...
... HIGH-SPOT i HILARITY Leslie Henson Swings Along I at Hammersmith Gentle Rain at the Gaiety After October' A Merely Drizzle By PLAY BILL BY some merciful dispensation of Provi dence (or, what is more likely, by sheer luck), a play of preternatural gloom is quite often immediately followed by the production of an exceptionally cheery one. The Two Bouquets, for instance, came a few weeks ...