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... NOEL COWARD sets his last scene in May 1945. Visitors who come, unprepared, to the Lyric Theatre, may assume from a glance at the programme that a drama of the war years will end with an orthodox VE-Day scene and, possibly, with a speech that will be a parallel to the famous toast in Cavalcade. Later, reading the programme more carefully, they may wonder what a batch of S.S. Guards and ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. By W. Somerset Maugham. (Heinemann 10s. 6 d.) MEN OF TASTE. By Martin S. Briggs. (Bats ford 15s.) RETURN TO NIGHT. By Mary Renault. (Longmans, Green 10s. 6 d.) THE DEADLY PERCHERON. By John Franklin Bardin. Gollancz 8s. 6 d.) CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. From Mr. Somerset Maugham's new book of short stories ...
... By John Courtenay. TRESPASS (Globe) is a play by Emlyn Williams to the time of A-haunting we will go. He chooses a castle in Wales, seated pleasantly in the middle of a lake, and appears him self as a Cardiff draper who is not the fake medium he thinks he is. We are with the blither spirits during the first half of the play-- thanks largely to Marjorie Rhodes, delightfully candid as a ...
... By C. A. Lejeune. THE WEB (Tivoli).-- One of the smaller but slicker Hollywood thrillers, done with a deliberation that almost makes its extravagant postu lates acceptable. A poor young lawyer is framed on a murder charge by the smooth business-man he has been hired to pro tect; a sleuth from the Homicide Squad uses his own methods to unveil the real killer. Vincent Price, as the business ...
... LES DISPARUS DE ST. AGIL THERE are three things, roughly speaking, that seem to be foolproof material for the screen-- running water, running horses, and of small boys. e screen has hardly ever made a mistake v, pictures of children in the mass, and there is mistake about the French film at Studio One, Disparus de St. Agil. The film is technically lis J, that must be allowed. It was made in ...
... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. EUSTACE AND HILDA. By L. P. Hartley. (Putnam 10s. 6 d.) NINETEEN STORIES. By Graham Greene. (Heinemann 8s. 6d.) MINUTE FOR MURDER. MINUTE FOR MURDER. By Nicholas Blake. (Collins, Crime Club 8s. 6d.) (Collins, Crime Club 8s. 6 d.) TENNIS WITHOUT TEARS. TENNIS WITHOUT TEARS. By Susan Noel. (Hutchinson 10s. 6 d.) (Hutchinson 10s. 6 d.) ...