... April Fools at the Play house. Being in time, out of consideration for others, I spent a happy five minutes perusing the nature note on the programme. Most interesting some theatre programmes are tell you what to do if your dog has distemper, how and when ...

... eccentric, while their presentation seems to lead to stranger eccentricity still. Once only does the book strike a human and natural note, when a rustic youth contrasts the dental surgery of a farrier and a qualified licentiate. In the comic sock Mr. Pugh succeeds ...

... clearly cut in style, our joy would have been unalloyed. But the authoress, Miss W. E. Gunn, but rarely struck this vital, natural note only once before, in the delightful scene with Marjorie Fleming, his child pal, when the great man, at the hand of his ...

... purely a personal comment it is a charming, worthwhile little book. An attractive book of mixed reading (mostly wildfowling, nature notes, random observations) is Pastures New (Witherby 12s. 6d.), by Jeffery G. Harrison. It records experiences on the Elbe, ...

... sincere and manly as the handsome English exile. Frances Farmer, defending her commandeered schooner, strikes a clear and natural note, and Lloyd Nolan's smooth blend of cruelty and fanati cism emphasises the mystery of his un charted island. An excellent ...

... itself well to cinematic treatment, and a shrewd wit decorates the dialogue. The play demands an unforced and completely natural note in its interpretation, and herein the older generation is by far the most successful. Frieda Inescourt, as the serene and ...

... an outstanding figure John Howard's study of a tormented mind is sensitive and restrained, and Jean Parker's frank and natural note helps romance to tread discreetly on the stony paths of a stern and often gripping drama. The authors of the original story ...

... like 'em to be characters. Ann was herself secretly an author she contributed a weekly column of homely unpretentious nature notes for the Penfield County Register first she sang them, when she thought no one was by, spontaneous hymns of praise and later ...

... business of the Baron's robots. Thus Fran9oise Rosay's incisive and intimate portrayal of Catharine strikes a supremely natural note that seems a decade or so ahead of the hocus-pocus in the puppet- maker's workshop. But the elegant, if bizarre, Baron ...

... reminder. Two books of similar background, and similar in the sense that each is concerned with very rural existence, are Nature Notes of a Highland Gamekeeper (Seeley, Ser vice; 1 6s.), by Dugald Macintyre, and Highland Gathering (Bles; 18s.), by Kenneth ...

... choice of a mate. The wife, too, of Miss Mary Grew a find of Mr. Robert Atkins* was played with great sincerity, with a natural note that only became a little melo dramatic in the last act. But the woman, as we saw her in Miss Crew's portrayal, is essentially ...

... altogether unusual knowledge of birds in a most palatable form. The Times recognised this, and paid her hand somely for her Nature Notes. Nor can I say that Ordinary Families is a novel for the yachtsman, or for such as go down to the sea in sailing- boats ...