... The Theatre The Good Fairy (Royalty) IS there not somewhere in Scott a pleasing story of how the mighty blade of Richard Cœur-de-Lion suc ceeds only in crushing a silken cushion which the puny scimitar of the wily Saladin neatly cleaves in twain? Mighty intellects sweeping down on the new Molnar comedy at the Royalty may well suffer a similar humiliation. Ten to one they will be baffled by an ...

... The Bystander Bookshelf Ancient and Modern By Alan Thomas ONE of the most imposing contribu tions to the wealth of literature that has been written on and round the Coronation is a sumptuous volume entitled, A Chronicle of Kingship: 1066 to 1937, by R. B. Mowat and T. D. Griffith Davies (Arthur Barker: 30s.) The book, which is nearly a foot long and over eight inches wide, is a review of the ...

... The World of Books The Life of Ll iza Let) i Fry, Quaker and National Heroine Alan of December a Novel that is not a Novel Reviewed by VERNON FANE THE life of Elizabeth Fry has been so often chronicled in the pattern of nineteenth- century history that a full dress biography of this Quaker heroine is not only an event but a necessity. Hitherto her life has been recorded only in family ...

... CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. THE CINEMA. By MICHAEL ORME. IT is not, perhaps, to be wondered at that DER AMMENKOENIG, based on Max Dreyer's ironic comedy The Valley of Life, and now presented by special permission of the London County Council at Studio One, should have been refused a licence for general exhibition. For this eighteenth-century German satire is woven with considerable audacity ...

... CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. THE STAGE. By IVOR BROWN. WHEN we first meet Mr. Milne's Mr. Bendish-- who is the central figure of Mr. Milne's SARAH SIMPLE, at the Garrick-- he, Mr. Bendish, a serious gentleman approaching middle age, is kissing gravely, persistently, but without conviction, the spritely widow of one of England's Higher Clergy. His wife had left him to become a New York milliner under ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS JARRETT calls her new story a romance, and claims for it the special privileges and immunities of its genre. Nathaniel Hawthorne laid these down, in the memorable passage from the preface to The House of the Seven Gables which Miss Jarrett quotes in justifi cation of her experiment. The novel, Hawthorne says is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely ...

... Films of the Day For Music Lovers By George Campbell A WRITER generally specialises. You don't expect a Crime and Punish ment from Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, or a Postman Always Rings Twice from Mr. Denis Mackail, or a Trail of '98 from Miss Berta Ruck. Stage producers, too, stick as a rule to one line-- Shakespeare or drawing-room comedy or song-and-dance stuff. Only the film director is supposed ...

... ENTERTAINMENTS a la CARTE Swing Time THE new vaudeville, for which the performers are required to wander into each other's turns, and for which good teams stay unchanged while public support lasts, has two strong holds in London-- the Palladium and the Victoria Palace. These houses must be a godsend to the distributors of films, the advertisers of branded goods, and the manufacturers of radio ...