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... 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 ...
... since it achieves that dream of ambitious biographers, of creating and sustaining interest in a character who in spite of world-wide fame, has few of the obvious attractions. Miss Nightingale, for instance, was autocratic, domineering, harsh, and at the ...
... GIN-PALACE ART A Wide-ranging Survey on Public-house Decor The world of art is preoccupied these days with the decor of the English public-house. There is much talk of reinterpreting the English public-house tradition in a modern manner, and there has ...
... after he does nothing to interfere with the perfect happiness of the human lotus-eaters. An old schoolfriend coming out from England is naturally rather shocked by the routine of this queer household. We are to learn later that she has no sort of dramatic ...
... from the engraved frontispiece of Milnes's first volume, is now as familiar to us as the strange, eggshell countenance of Shakespeare from the First Folio. In 1848 in England that face was still unknown. One and perhaps the pre-eminent delight of Mr. ...
... 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 ...
... a shock to an author on a U.S. lecture tour to be told by a hotel clerk that if he wants a room to show samples in, that will be two dollars extra. Here and there Godfrey Winn received other shocks which convinced him that U.S. hotels are less good, British ...
... however, the danger of a number of readers knowing Byron only at one remove; through the medium of other, explaining minds. Let us miss no opportunity of direct approach. Such approach is offered by Byron: Letters and Diaries-- A Self-portrait --edited ...
... have since those dates, I imagine, been repeats. Rayner Heppenstall, of the B.B.C., who contributes the general preface, tells us that he wrote The Fool's Saga because he so much enjoyed producing The Hawk and the Handsaw which was, he adds, from the ...
... sixty-three one-handed after his left had been badly split between thumb and forefinger in fielding a hard hit. Captain ing England that year-- his best-- he topped Test Match averages with one of just over fifty-seven. But full though he is of cricket lore ...
... nothing expected or flat about the recital of their actions. Boris is wounded, but plans to escape and continue the fight in England his sister Ivich (surely the least euphonious name ever coined for a pretty girl) continues to be impractical and sulky Mathieu ...
... Two Solo Flights I'J. 9 ITho.V THE records of World War Two have no wilder nor stranger story to tell than that of Sir Basil Embry's battle to outwit captivity in the early summer of 1940. It is set out in Wingless Victory (Odhams, 9s. 6d.) by Anthony ...