... r^fjio us CY r Tc THE GOLD DIGGERS AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. GOLD digging, as shown by the author of this play, Mr. Avery Hopwood, has none of the rigours of the Klondyke, and usually results in a bigger pile. Instead of quartering barren and icy ground for months, and then, possibly, digging for dirt alone, your young lady prospector looks her man up and down, and if the soil is obviously ...

... 5s The Literary Lounger. By Beverley Nichols L UULUT Locality and Mentality. I sometimes wonder how much longer people will be able to write travel books. We are enlarging our horizons at such a speed that surely in a hundred years' time the only places left to describe will be either the boundless ether or the bowels of the earth. I can hardly bring myself to believe, even to-day, that many ...

... Y $0*1 9?MM I J wi J I Produced NoOsmbcr 17, 19^6 v K By JINGLE THIS highly diverting production in troduces us to Mr. Billy Merson as a private detective in Blackley's International Stores. The great Sir Peregrine Blackley himself (Mr. Charles Stone) introduces the Firm with the help of the usual number of mannequins as a fair and fascinating chorus. Then we get news that the young people ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. r. MACBETH, AT THE PRINCES. THAT very affection to which Miss Thorndike referred in her thanksgiving on the first night, and which I bear to her, to Lewis Casson and Mr. Ainley; the great expectations with which I entered the theatre in the fervent desire to pay tribute, impel me to confess, in candour, that my heart-beat would not quicken-- save once in ...

... i TnK Produced December 22, 1926 By JINGLE I HAVE always been fond of pantomime. I am not vain enough to suppose that this quite personal detail is a matter of general interest, but I take the liberty of mentioning it here because it will ex plain why I approach an entertainment of this kind with much prejudice in its favour. Perhaps it is the sign of a small mind. Consequently, when 1 find ...

... a- v A BYSTANDER c tz/rnorzy t/ze 1 J 1 BOOKS ffi r y THE other day I happened to see in one of the newspapers two photo graphs of ladies busily shopping for Christmas. One belonged to to-day, the other was twenty years old. Only twenty years old, but what an astonish ing difference! You could hardly believe that in this very century women went about in the clothes that they did. And I ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i. ROBIN HOOD, AT THE NEW CENTURY. WE owe a very real debt of gratitude to Miss Lena Ashwell for her courage in staging, at the small Century Theatre and with the simple means at her command, the five-act play by Alfred Noyes on the theme of Robin Hood. For here is a thing of beauty, a poem that has caught the romance and the mystery of the forest, the ...

... J The Literary Lounger. By Beverley Nichols. Self-Willed Books. I am sure that books have likes and dislikes for their readers, just as much as their readers have likes and dislikes for them. By no other principle can one explain the quite uncanny way in which certain books manage to keen out of certain libraries. The owner of the librarv mav he a widely read man with an active brain. He may ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. 1 By J. T. Grein. i. LOST PROPERTY, AT THE EVERYMAN.- THIS is, as far as I know, the first comedy by Mr. Ben Landeck, the young veteran of melodrama fame, and it is capital fun in the Jewish key. The first act, humble milieu of a Polish couple who have just sold their business to seek fortune in the States; introduces us to kind people with a warm heart, an eye to ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Beverley Nichols The Petrified Hand. Not long ago I sat in a very pleasant room in Clarges Street watching with considerable astonishment a quite ordinary-looking man who was unable to move his hand from his chair. He was not paralysed; he was not drunk; he was in full possession of his faculties-- in fact, he was talking quite naturally and fluently about any subject ...

... apKCUJS Q,-K CY rn BROADWAY AT THE STRAND THEATRE. BOOTLEGGING, of late years, has been a godsend to the writer of drama. With the outbreak of the war, spies, secret wireless sets and submarine hides came to relieve them from the threadbare state secrets, compromising letters and stolen pearls of pre-war tradition. But the war was an episode, whereas drama we have always with us, and so when ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i. LOST PROPERTY, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S. I GAVE, in our last issue, my impressions of Mr. Landeck's jolly and clever play, when it was tried out at Everyman. Hence the main interest was now to observe how this satirical romance of Anglo- Jewish life would fare at the Duke of York's. Would the public appreciate the peculiar humour of the Ghetto? Would ...