... : Reviewed by Rrevor zydllen A DOCTOR'S work, like a woman's, is never done. Even his holiday may turn out to be a busman's. Mr. George Borodin-- the pseudonym of a Harley Street surgeon and pioneer in plastic treatment-- long dreamt of gipsying round the romantic isles of the Pacific. When at last he was able to do so he found he had to gipsy round operating tables, too. He was called to ...

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... IJMfl III Reviewed by Trevor Allen QUEEN'S HALL, which opened with a children's party and expired to Goering's Firebird Music on the blitz night of May 10, 1941, not only epit omized half a century of London's earnest musical life. George Robey once conducted there; Landon Ronald, with a 9 ft. baton; and Herman Finck, with an orchestra which included motor horns and household utensils. Among ...

... AT rare intervals one strikes a story --psychological, spiritual, dynamic ally original-- which either tries one's patience or demands complete sur render. Mr. Chris Massie's Pity My Simplicity (Faber, 8s. 6d.) is not for those who require light, easy reading, but those who believe that the deeps of human conduct, especially in unusual lives, contain unfathomable mysteries, S A soldier in the ...

... Technique for Beauty. By fane Gordon. (Faber 10s. 6 d.) THIS is a book to make mere man gasp: 100,000 words, 460 pages, the product of a year's research into no fewer than eighty- eight text-books by world-famous specialists, and all so that every day in every way woman may grow lovelier and lovelier. scientific, classified advice about every kind of beauty treatment, inner and outer, and ...

... American women have gone mad rough-house beauty treatments. Avenue beauties arc being stood elegant coiffures, for standing head is said to clear the comover Fifth on their on the plexion smooth out wrinkles. rhev are being r slapped with coarse hair mitts to make the skin fine, and pummelled until the tears start to their eyes, to pep up sluggish circu lations. Then they are sent home with ...

... Books: Reviewed by Trevor Allen HOW the great betray them selves in the little! In the garden of Miss Naomi Jacob's home at Sirmione, Lake Garda, was buried a pet Pekinese with his name, Samuelo, painted above the grave. When the all- conquering Nazis arrived they said: The name is Jewish. To-morrow it will be painted out. And it was. Even during that bitter struggle, she writes, they ...

... I GIVE full marks to H. B. Saxe. He has taken an Edgar Wallace style of plot, the Damon Runyan present tense, and a nice selection of slang and called it The Ghost Knows His Greengages (Constable, 7s. 6d.). The result is as good and as funny a thriller as you can want, set in the familiar West End of London with a Moat House with underground dungeon for variety. The ghost is a good character ...

... Books: Reviewed by Noel Thompson DON'T blame me if this month I have less escapist books than usual on my list of recommendations. Various angles on the war, especially the blitz on London, are beginning to assume a proper pro portion, and to call for perpetuating in print. The number that will live is at present few. One will undoubtedly come eventually from the typewriter of Quentin Reynolds ...

... Books (Continued from page 28) is the root cause of the trouble, and that by world co-operation a basis for a lasting peace can be achieved. There are numerous charts, tables and maps, and his section on the problems and aspirations of J apan in the Pacific makes accurate reading at the moment. This is a book to study and keep by you when you feel argumentative and want to be sure of your ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen WHEN I read a novel in these home-bound days I not only want a good story, I want to go places by proxy. Miss Katharine Brush's You Go Your Way (Cassell, 7s. 6d.) whisks me to the New York of cocktails, highballs, wisecracks, snappy dialogue, and divorce. Connie, you see, who wore a sleek black satin dress that loved her figure, had wilful ideas about marriage. ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor' zTfllen NO one in Cairo, Mr. Cecil Beaton implies, will ever need the Kipling epitaph: Here lies the fool who tried to hustle the East. He found the atmosphere of G.H.Q. not at all bracing-- rather like a reunion dinner of old schoolboys --and decided that no war leader should be encouraged to remain there for long, for Blimpism, plus the Cairene climate, were two of ...