... IT is long since the West End list has had so many revues in it. Tuppence Coloured, which has now come over from Hammer smith to the Globe with its brigade of authors, is all an intimate revue should be. It is wisely topical and satirical-- spearing the flying folly-- but Laurier Lister has seen that there are enough straight songs to vary the crackle-and-stab. Nothing goes on too long, ...

... By C. A. Lejeune. DECEPTION, with Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains, is a handsome film with a certain amount of style; but the trouble is that the style has hardly been applied, at any point, to sense. It tells a triangular story of a famous refugee 'cellist, who comes to New York, marries a girl whom he has loved in the old clays in Europe, imagining her to be poor and innocent, ...

... By John Courtenay. DELIVER MY DARLING (Embassy) returns to us the firm of Joan Temple and Freda Jackson, who made of No Room at the Inn so shattering a venture in full- length Grand Guignol. Joan Temple, defending the maltreated evacuee, wrote the play from her heart, and Freda Jack son. Chief Tormentor, washed us in steepdown gulfs of liquid fire. We had expected much from the new piece, ...

... A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR. By Elizabeth Taylor. (Peter Davies 9s. 6 d.) THE DARK DAUGHTERS. By Rhys Davies. Heinemann 9s. 6 d.) THE MAN WHO MADE MUSIC. By Froom Tyler. (Harrap 8s. 6d.) PUNCH WITH CARE. By Phoebe Atwood- Taylor. (Crime Club 7s. 6 d.) Rupert Croft-Cooke A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR.-- Miss Elizabeth Taylor's novel is a puppet drama played against the background of a seaside crescent. Her ...

... By John Courtenay. HAPPY AS LARRY (Mercury) is a melodrama in ballade. It might have been composed by the author, Donagh MacDonagh, at the end of a long and happy Dublin evening, with the shades of, say, Shakespeare, Beddoes, Dion Boucicault, and an Abbey Theatre dramatist in high debate behind him. Nothing could be more endearing than this mixture in swift-running verse of fan tasy, ...

... NO one, when The Farmer's Wife appeared at the Court in 1924, could have prophesied a run of 1329 performances. Simple stuff, said the cynics: a dance of local yokels, a rustic charade: nothing here for the metropolitan stage. And yet to-day, twenty-three years later, the play is in Central London (at the Apollo) with all the authority of a minor classic. Why is this Purely, I think, because ...

... BACK to Leicester Square, where it ran for four testing years, conies that social phenomenon, Gone With the Wind, and it would argue an ill-instinct for history, as well as a gross display of ill manners, if we did not acknowledge its return with a special salutation. G.W.T.W. is not one of the world's really great pictures. For all its Technicolor exuber ance, for all its clamant clarets ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke THE JUDGE'S STORY.-- It is a signi ficant fact that no two critics interpret in the same way the symbolism and philosophic undertones in Mr. Morgan's new novel. One sees in it the Faust motif; another the lonely struggle of the individual for his own integrity against the onslaught of the masses. Yet the book's validity lies in the story itself. If all that ...

... I HAVE not chosen this film as an example of good workmanship, nor as an entertainment, but as an awful warning. It shows what may happen when a minor classic of the screen is remade by skill-less hands and inferior intelli gences; how easily the bloom can be rubbed off, and how even the strokes and touches that are retained here and there from the original can become meaningless in a new and ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke PENNY WISE.-- I have always wanted to read right through a book like this, and now that I have done it I am not without pride in the achievement. Miranda Kenyon used to sit between two boys at school, Roger and Bill. Roger was Reliable, Bill was tall and straight like a young sapling, with laughing eyes that made her heart turn over with a thump. Later, ...

... By C. A. Lejeune. LES FORTES DE LA NUIT, another Marcel Carné-- Jacques Prévert piece, is no Les Enfants du Paradis. Nevertheless, despite its insistence on gloom, and its strained thread of whimsy that strings the story on the figure of Destiny, who unaccount ably wanders in and out of the film in the guise of a harmonica-playing vagabond, the film bears the patent mark of the master. For ...

... By C. A. Lejeune. PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE.-- This is a little gem for the connoisseur; a delicate thing made out of the Guy de Maupassant story of a Parisian tradesman's family and their day's outing in the country. Maupassant conceived it as a short story; the film's director, Jean Renoir, has very properly refused to expand it. The film runs for less than an hour, and is a tiny miracle of wit, ...