... Books: H P)uty on Humour H Premium on Size Previewed by ARNOLD PALMER EVERY year, English publishers select one or two American humor ists, of whom there seems to be a good supply, and introduce them to us. We come up smiling, endeavour to get in the unanswerable Pleased to meet you before the other fellow says it to us, and then stand anxiously listening. We know, because Americans have ...

... King Henry V by Philip Lindsay (Ivor Nicholson Watson, ros. 6d.) The Life and Times of Catherine de Medici by Francis Watson (Hutchinson, 18s.) THE author of that successful novel, Here Comes the King, continues to travel back wards in time. After Henry VIII, Richard III now we are at Henry V, and already Mr. Lindsay seems to be casting hungry glances at Edward III. Well, it sometimes pays to ...

... War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. Vol. 4 (Nicholson Watson. 21s.) A Time to Keep by Halliday Sutherland (Bles, 10s. 6d.) I'll Go No More A- Roving by Charles. Ladds (Selwyn Blount, 8s. 6d.) Cafe Royal Days: by Capt. D. Nichols Pigache (Hutchinson, 18s.) MUCH has been said already, much more will be said, about this fourth instalment of Mr. Lloyd George's story of the war. (His mounting ...

... THE CINEMA Lorna Doone By JAMES AGATE NOT everybody knows that the novel, Lorna Doone, on its first appearance was a complete flop. Then an English Princess married the Marquis of Lome, and the British public in some way connected the two events. The book ran through edition after edition, and the author's fame was made, though, consistent with its first view, the public still persistently ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE Belisha Beacons and Christmas Pantomimes Cinderella at Drury Lane, Dick Whittinglon at the Lyceum Garbo Returns in The Painted Veil The Film Version of a Somerset Maugham Story It is a Belisha Beacon pantomime season, and their unanimity is wonderful. In my extreme youth I was taken to pantomimes when the Trilby boom was on, when every other comedian sang of Trilby ...

... By Alan Thomas THIS book tells, in simple and eloquent language, the story of a brave woman's life-- the life of a woman standing high among those whose example has acted as an inspira tion to the builders of our Empire. So writes Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby in his preface to Mrs. Marina King's book Sunrise to Evening Star (Harrap; 10s. 6d.) o v r It is the story of the seventy years that ...

... By JAMES AGATE AS I remember, Mr. Maugham's original story went something like this: Kitty Vane was a silly little donkey who preferred to marry a man utterly distaste ful to her rather than let her younger sister be married before her. That is the kind of thing no mere man can under stand. Fancy Tom, who has kept wicket for Eton and pulled his weight for his university-- I trust there is ...

... Films of the day Cinema Cosmopolitan By SYDNEY TREMAYNE OF the pictures shown in the chief Lon don cinema-houses during the first weeks of this year, three of the most interesting were Continental. American contributions included two super-musical entertainments, while English productions of note favoured costume and romance, and the never-to-be-forgotten horrific depiction of war as it really ...

... By Alan Thomas IT is a long time since I have read a novel so moving as Latter Howe, by Doreen Wallace (Collins; 7s. 6d.). I am not going to be rash enough to endorse the publisher's blurb, which describes Miss Wallace as destined to be ranked among the great novelists of our age. But there can be no question about her being among the first half-dozen of our most competent women writers. The ...

... THE CINEMA The War at the Rialto By JAMES AGATE REALLY it is difficult to say whether war pictures-- even the authentic ones-- do or do not achieve the end for which they are shown. The day after I had seen Forgotten Men: or The Way As It Was, which is a stringing-together of actual photographs taken during the actual fighting-- in view of the number of fake war pictures one is compelled to ...

... Reviewed by VERNON FANE Wit, Wisdom, and Understanding, in Four Short Novels by Rebecca West O Lady Eleanor Smith creates a Living Narrative Out of a Conventional Theme I have heard it said that Miss Rebecca West's reputation, at its highest, rests upon her critical writings. Undeniably she is a fine critic: powerful, witty. profound. Yet there is evidence in her work that these exercises have ...

... DRAMA Free Trade in the Theatra W orld The Garho s English Co-Star Flora Rohson as Queen Elizabeth BlacfyMagic at the Royalty By PRINCESS PAUL TROUBETZKOY Somewhere between the grey ness of London's January and the crisp sparkle which dances along the famous skyline of New York there is a graceful, slim ship, the Stella Polaris, bound on a course which will lead her round the world for three ...