... STILL more American plays are making the perilous Atlantic passage. The latest recruit to Broadway-on-Thames had a fourteen months run in New York. This does not guarantee success at Wyndham's; but it will be odd if London rejects a piece that has its roots deep in the good earth of drama. The fact that it considers a problem unknown to Britain does not in any way weaken the theatrical ...

... Rupert Croft-Cooke PEOPLE OF QUALITY.-- I like Mr. Collie Knox's title. It reminds me of that fine short story of Galsworthy's which sketches the downfall of an old crafts man who could only make by hand the finest articles in his trade, and so was left behind by a world satisfied with the mass-produced and the nickel-plated. People of Quality are rare, as Mr. Knox implies when he chooses ...

... THE FAR AWAY MUSIC. Rupert Croft-Cooke REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. By Arthur Meeker. (Michael Joseph 10s. 6 d.) ENGLISH FAMILY. By J. L. Hodson. (Go llancz 12s. 6d.) THE ADVENTURES OF WESLEY JACKSON. By William Saroyan. (Faber 8s. 6 d.) OUR OWN KIND. By Edward McSorley. (Collins 9s. 6 d.) THE FAR AWAY MUSIC. The first two of the books I am dealing with here are family novels-- not lengthy ...

... By C. A. Lejeune. SO WELL REMEMBERED.-- James Hilton's novel about a Lancashire mill-boy, who takes up a political career in a mood of high idealism, but finds that his wife's social ambitions don't square with his dreams of slum clearance. The film has been made in England under joint American and British auspices, with a collaboration of stars and technicians from the two countries. The ...