... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon T wo More Revues WHAT a cast for Up and Doing, at the Saville! Leslie Henson: positively his revue début. Binnie Hale: making antic hay of Evelyn Lave and Frances Day. Cyril Ritchard: showing slinky, lank-haired Hollywood ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Far j eon Yes and No Ambassadors PLAYS run in fashions. Once it was eternal eternal triangles, as con structed by Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones. Later it was social reform, as advocated by Shaw, Galsworthy and Granville Barker. ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon The Golden Cuckoo Duchess) THE action of this new comedy by Denis Johnston arises out of a very nice point. An editor com missions a contributor to write an obituary notice of an eminent scientist who has been investigating ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon Ridgeway's Late Joys (13, Albemarle Street) UNDER the congenial and command- ing direction of Mr. Leonard Sachs, Ridgeway's Late Joys have, for the duration, removed their habitat from King to Albemarle Street, demonstrating ...

... THEATRES FIRST-NIGHTMARES.-- In spite of the crisis, in spite of the cinema, in spite of lawn tennis, dancing and Corinthian bagatelle, in spite of the fact that there were no new contributions from Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Pinero, or any of the other ...

... THEATRES LOVE, LOVE, NOTHING BUT LOVE.-- To see Edna Best in love is always a pleasure. She has the trick of it to perfection. And one of the merits of John Van Druten's new comedy at the Apollo is that it provides her with love scene after love scene ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Far j eon The Taming of the Shrew Old Vic I THIS is a lively rather than a sym pathetic production. Mr. Tyrone Guthrie, faced by a Shakespearean comedy, seems always to be struck by the idea that it would be great fun to produce ...

... of crabbed age and youth, and the old lines certainly find confirmation in Mr. Stuart Ogilvie's new comedy at the Court Theatre. The slowly developed and necessarily abortive attachment of John Durnford, the leader of the advanced Radical party, to the ...

... the past, and it is true that not many houses calling themselves that are left in the West End, but a little tour of the theatres just now will discover plenty of music-hall comedians who are alive and kicking. Whether signed up in pantomime or in revue ...

... The Importance of Being Earnest. No doubt the point occurred to Mr. Noel Langley long before the entertainment reached the theatre. Happily, he did not allow himself to be dis concerted by it. He went unblenchingly on with his job of concocting effective ...

... lower ribs or provoke the ventral guffaw. But if its punches had been delivered by Broadway buffoons, every funny-bone in the theatre might have been dislocated, if not broken. Such idiomatic knockabout as Messrs. Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov have based ...

... THEATRES AFTER THE FLOOD.-- The Bible is full of beautiful themes for plays, and now that Obey with his Noé has given an impetus to Biblical playwrights as fresh as the impetus given by Maurois to biographers with his Ariel, we may expect the possibilities ...