... THERE 'S GLORY FOR YOU Rupert Croft-Cooke By Michael Harrison. (Werner Laurie;* 10s. 6d.) I COUNT myself among those who have long been waiting for a really fine novel from Mr. Michael Harrison. He has certain qualities as a writer which have been promising great things for him ever since he began to publish. Now here is a novel which, although it does not entirely fulfil one's hope, is ...

... . By Olivia Manning. Heinemann 9s. 6 d.) Miss Manning's theme is more slender, but she holds fast to it, and her novel is without digressions or irrelevances. The scene is Cairo during the last war, and the city and its people, the squalor, heat and colour are suggested rather than described. The guns are heard off as the Germans approach and recede, and there are plenty of alf raids and ...

... FOR the first ten minutes of My Brother Jonathan I should not have believed, even if an archangel had come down from heaven to tell me, that I should be slipping this film into this space above this authentic signature as my choice of the best new picture of the week. The opening of My Brother Jonathan is terrible. We are introduced to a young actor, in an abominably ill-fitting grey wig ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT must be nearly four years now since M.-G.-M. pencilled PRIDE AND PREJU DICE into their schedule as a vehicle for Norma Shearer. Four years in the film industry is a long time, and the surprise, now that the film does turn up (at the Empire), is not so much that Miss Shearer should not be in it, but that the picture should have been made at all. Few films that are ...

... trottie true. A gay little Technicolor number from the British studios, based on Brahms' and Simon's witty novel about Gaiety Girls and mashers. Chief honours go to James Donald as a titled young-man-about-town, but Jean Kent makes a pleasant Trottie. M. obsession. Smartly revised screen version of Alec Coppcl's horrid thriller, A Man About a Dog. A distasteful subject handled with as much ...

... . By John Brophy. (Collins 10s. 6 d.) THIS is a carefully-planned and interesting novel set in Palestine during the last years of the British Mandate. Its central theme is the love-story of Julian Barr, a major in Intelligence, and Margit Tolmay, a refugee from Hungary. There is plenty of incident, but it has been contrived to show off a number of people and sometimes therefore lacks ...

... . By Alberto Moravia. (Seeker and Warburg 12s. 6 d.) Clever study of a prostitute in Mussolini's Italy. M. ...

... . By James Kinross. (Hamisl i Hamilton 9s. 6 d.) An ex-officer who has been a prisoner in Germany spends two years in hospital suffer ing irom tuberculosis. This day-to-day account of it is frank and heartening. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ENGLISH audi ences to-day are getting tired of fairy- stories, a weather- wise film man said to me recently. The war is giving them a sense of reality. They know that the world isn t one eternal Vienna Congress, full of gilt and gingerbread and flashy blonde women. They want to see pictures about England and English life not just documentaries, but dramatic stories, full ...

... . By Shelley Smith. (Collins Crime Club 8s. 6 d.) A good thriller. But the publishers say that this penetrating psychological study has the dram atic intensity of Zola's Thercse Raquin. Really, a ...

... . it By Cecilie Leslie. (Cassell 12s. 6 d.) The Indian's love of metaphor has let him in for this quite silly piece of melodrama among the memsahibs. The author solemnly describes the actual sacrifice of a goat. ...

... Susannah Sings. w By Maxine Hewson. (Peter Davies 9s. bd.) Spirited tale of a girl's rise to stardom and a wedding in one of London's biggest churches. ...