... Elizabeth Betvens Creatures of Circumstance Treadmill Leave to Presume the Death The Novel Since 1939 QUITE an interesting study for the sub- historian could be: errors which gave rise to famous false alarms. These, I imagine, would be found to thicken with the approach to our own fortunate day: the type writer must be responsible for many. I advisedly say the typewriter, not the young lady at ...

... (M Deep Are The loots (Wyndham's) THEY are the roots of racial hatred and fear that still bedevil the relations of white people and coloured folk in the Deep South. The problem thus perpetuated is purely American; but to assume therefore that you won't be interested in its treatment will be to deny yourself an evening of exciting theatre. It is exciting theatre because the authors (Arnaud ...

... Elizabeth Bewens THE sad part about many monuments is their stoniness, which may seem to place the person they would commemorate back in the coldness of other time. But John Buchan, by His Wife and Friends (Hodder and Stoughton; 12s. 6d.), is what seems ideal-- a living monu ment to a man who lived life to the full. In part a composite memoir, in part a series of portraits by different hands, ...

... THE name of Jeanne Demessieux is well known in France, but not particularly so in this country. Admittedly she broad cast in the Third Programme some few weeks ago but I am sure when you have heard her playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor you will know that here is an organist who will make her mark throughout the world. Walt Disney introduced this music to a very wide public in ...

... C Ur 7fc- Dr. Angelus (Phoenix) Anthony Cookman and Tom Titt AN eccentric Glasgow doctor poisons his wife's mother. His innocent young partner obligingly signs the certificate regularizing the death. The eccentric then poisons his wife, and again the partner's signature is forthcoming. But youth and innocence do not last for ever. The good young man's suspicions are aroused, he sends for the ...

... Cbt 1&L- Fly Away Peter (St. James's) Anthony Cookman and Tom Titt MR. DEARSLEY'S comedy of suburban family life is for those o us who go to the theatre, not to ask awkward questions, but to be innocently beguiled into a good laugh or a good cry. At the St. James's we shall enjoy both, and much good acting into the bargain. The whole thing hinges comfortably on Mr. J. H. Roberts, ai actor ...

... Elizabeth Bewehs Novels of High Society from the Victorian Age Certified So Long at the Fair Penguin Guides NOVELS of HIGH SOCIETY FROM THE VICTORIAN AGE (Pilot Press; 18s.) is an omnibus which pursues a pro mising route. The conductor is, one might put it, Anthony Powell, who, having selected the novels, very ably suggests, in his Introduction, some outstanding features of the bygone ...

... (Mr tfcu ft \JUUIajl^ Peace In Our Time (Lyric) TH Anthony Cookman and Tom Titt VERY likely Mr. Noel Coward's latest play will run for a long while. Yet it is not, I fancy, the kind of play that he had hoped to write, and should it succeed merely on its incidental brightness and easy appeals to patriotic feeling, possibly he, no less than his admirers, will be disappointed. Peace in Our Time ...

... Elizabeth Boivens IT has been my experience (remarks Collie Knox, in his foreword to People of Quality) that when human beings have attained their ambitions, they become, except in isolated instances, much nicer individuals. They have ceased their biting and scratching. Whereas once they stamped with both feet on those who stood in their path they are now kindly and not at all violently ...