... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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.) ...

... THE ENGLISH CHARACTER AND THE ENGLISH SCENE Two Authors and Two Artists Give Their Individual Viewpoints Chesterton called the English The Secret People. Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget: For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. That was how he wrote, but in doing so he was more concerned with the England of his imaginative reckoning, still the ...

... 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 ...

... CESARE BORGIA AND RUDOLF HESS Books About Two Totalitarian* and Other New Publications Briefly Reviewed Cesare Borgia, known to all the world as a sinister, Machiavellian figure who stopped at nothing in the achievement of his ambitions, whose indifference to human life was as much a byword as the luxury and debauchery of his Court, has for these very reasons been revealed but seldom in ...

... DOING JUSTICE TO WASHINGTON A Novel More Discerning than the Biographies; and Other New Books Briefly Reviewed In the anguish of defeat and frustration it is possible to read most dearly the character of men. We should, if that reasoning be sound, know George .Washington truly well, but historians have not seized their opportunities with regard to the great Virginian. Mason Weems, who recorded ...