... a dull moment. THE FREEBOOTERS. By Robert Wernick. (Cresset Press 9s. 6 d.) In a well-meaning blurb, the publishers promise us life turned upside down where brawls, black market, rape, getting drunk, spending money, queues at the Paniers Fleuris, intrigue ...

... canteen work on the wharf. She sang When Irish Eyes Are Smiling through her cupped hands later, when she progressed to the unique status of greeting and seeing-off every ship, she used a megaphone. Her exuberance bubbles up perpetually she does not go in for ...

... tainment. The Puzzle Corner item, which once used to drag all over the programme, has been speeded up by Ronnie Waldman. The Terry-Thomas show, How Do You View is not our cup of tea. Even the title makes us squirm. But we try to be broad- minded enough ...

... and we are done. Are all the Historic Houses of England going to be as dull as Penshurst Place It could, and should be, a fascinating series. Our stately homes are the most beautiful and romantic in the world. If Producer John Read and Commentator Geoffrey ...

... After seven years of this sort of thing the novelty was beginning to wear off, and the music-hall proprietors were seriously using the bioscope as a chaser to clear audiences out of the theatre, when a picture came along that revived public interest in the ...

... it gets under way. Twelve O' Clock High is simply a story about a bomber group in the U.S. Eighth Air Force (in which both the authors served) stationed in England, during the early days of precision bombing. The morale of the crews has cracked through ...

... our figures, we would like to point out that a billion, in the U.S.A., is a thousand millions, not a million millions.) In England the picture is somewhat different. Set-ownersh p is only rising toward the half-million mark. We base our estimate, rather ...

... dreary that only a stern sense of duty stopped us from switching off the set. Should Hugo von Gerhart, a German film director, leave his native, Four- Power-occupied Berlin and start a new life in England Should his film-star sister do likewise in America ...

... 10s. 6 d.) Imaginary biography of an inventor's daughter who views life as a fight Emma Conquest versus the world. I 'm frankly on the world's side. THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE. By Giovanni Verga. (W eidenfeld and Nicolson 10s. 6 d.) A good translation ...

... the Celestial Chorus obliged with the strains of Silent Night on the sound-track; although Christmas scenes are regularly used to point up family reunions and bring a lump into the throat of the susceptible spectator, the cinema, unlike the theatre, ...