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... The Sons of Mrs. Aab, Apartments to Let, Dawn's Left Hand, e Sons of Mrs. Aab, by Sarah Gertrude Millin. (Chatto partments to Let, by Norah Hoult. (Heinemann.7s.6d.) Dawn's Left Hand, by Dorothy Richardson. (Duckworth. Three JVomen MRS. MILLIN'S book is, in my opinion, not her best. Still, being by her, it is a good book; and it is only because, as a creation, it lacks some of the astonishing ...
... Here Gone T o-moWW^WU HKf 1 1 tflXPlIM A Story of the Way Film Companies work and live On Location By Margaret Chute TO order the construction, and subse quent destruction, of an entire town, solely for the purposes of making a moving picture play, is quite a trifle in the lives of the magnates of filmland. That the movie-goers of the world may be suitably entertained, towns must be built, ...
... Contract Bridge Up-to-Date, by Modern Approach and Forcing Bids Bertie Hollender. bv P. M. Smvth. (Bazaar, Exchange andMart. 2s.6d.). (Bod- lev Head. 2s. 6d.l These two excellent little books owe their origin to the success of the American players and their methods. It is perhaps significant that Mr. Hollender, who is a rather more faithful American than Mr. Smyth, has written the shorter and ...
... H.I. E.T. G.C. G. B. S. F. H. ana Other Letters Hundreds of Them by Arnold Palmer NOT for many years has one small corner of the biographical mine yielded such a cluster of gems as the Craig-- Ellen Terry-- Shaw volumes. Here they are, in order of their appearance. It also happens, I think, to be the best order in which to read them. Henry Irving, by Gordon Craig. (Dent. 15s.) Ellen Terry and ...
... LETTERS to the WOULD-BE'S of the TH EATRE In which the aspiring Managers, Backers, Woman-stars, Authors and other Hopefuls are offered an A to Z exposition of the whole Business of the Stage by that frank iconoclast Hannen Swaffer No. 1. To the would-be Dramatic Critic DEAR EVERYMA,-- I call you that because I know you want to be a dramatic critic, even if you have not said so. You want ...
... An Account of branch Pai.nti.n p by Clive Bell. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) To many intending visitors to Burlington House the timely appearance of this guide will be welcome. Mr. Bell, although he takes a very strenuous view of painting and has nothing but contempt for people who enjoy the wrong pictures, or the right pictures in the wrong way, is an extremely knowledgeable and re liable ...
... , by Karel Capek. (Bles. 5s.) A companion volume to the same author's popular Letters from England, this provides light and agreeable reading. The illustrations (the work, also, of the author) are par ticularly admirable, for they are complete in themselves. The letters themselves are not always so complete, and at times one feels that M. Capelc, having told us so much, must satisfy the ...
... HARD TIMES FOR CRITICS.-- it is pretty safe to say that never have there been so many Christmas holiday shows in the London theatres as this year. So vast is the number that the computations ...
... -- Mr. Winslon Churchill and his Thousands Literary Luncheons on Both Sides of the Atlantic An Author's X-ray Eye Diagnosing the Nationalistic Diseases of the World By CECIL ROBERTS A discussion having arisen as to the earnings of authors, I seemed to have startled the circle by stating that I thought Mr. Winston Churchill was probably earning as much with his pen as any man in the British ...
... -- Walk This Way at the Winter Garden The Nelson Touch at the St. Martin's Max and Mr. Max at the Vaudeville: It's a Girl at the Strand By PHILIP PAGE If Miss Gracie Fields were not known to be, of course with justice, as devoid of conceit as it is possible for a big star of the revue and music-hall world to be, I would say that in the case of Walk this Way she had banked too heavily on ...
... HARD TIMES FOR CRITICS.-- it is pretty safe to say that never have there been so many Christmas holiday shows in the London theatres as this year. So vast is the number that the computations ...
... Yachting King Charles By Junius MOST of us, I think, have the pleasing vision of yachting which Mr. Drysdale Smith describes in opening his book, Week- Ends Afloat (Alston Rivers: 7s. 6d.), Peaked cap, reefer jacket, white ducks, buckskin shoes, snow-white decks, sun-tipped waves. If the vision has its reality which it fre quently has yachting, especially in a twenty-five-ton pilot cutter ...