... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE The Film of Rebecca WHAT was the name of the first Mrs. Tanqueray? Only people en dowed with the cross-word kind of brain, the only kind which can ever answer such questions, will be able to reply straight away when asked for the name of the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca. Having read the book, seen the play, and viewed the film now showing at the Gaumont, I still ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE REALITY AND FILM BY far the most interesting film seen in our cinemas since the beginning of the war is Men of the Lightship, showing at the News Theatres. This recounts how, on a day in January this year, two German bombers attacked the East Dudgeon lightship. Everybody will have his own reaction to this actuality. One critic finds it wholly startling, and adds If ...

... The Glass Menagerie Haym arket) Anthony Cook man with Tom Titt REMEMBERING Mama has be come a national pastime in America. She is an or dinary woman, absurd in some ways but devoted, not always easy to live with but not to be men tioned in after years without a catch in the throat. It is a theme which, in Bacon's phrase, should come home to the business and bosoms of men everywhere, but for ...

... Elizabeth Havens Concluding Round the Year with Lady Addle Cigarette Card Cavalcade The Rape of Lucretia LAST week the children had it; and one or two last-minute children's books may, I hope, be a pendant to next week's page. Meanwhile, with Christmas approaching, there is the grown-up, donor or recipient, to be thought of. The book destined to be a Christ mas present should, I feel, have ...

... Cbt Festival I'Inys Aiiiianur Fookman THE Scots may be gay with difficulty, but their efficiency is an innate quality. All that efficient organization can do to create an international festival at Edinburgh has been done-- quite as a matter of course. The festive spirit cannot be created by efficiency, but visitors are expected to bring it with them, and if they have taken that sensible ...

... A Small Slir The Conversation* of Dr. Johnson The Doctor Wears Three Faces The Rainbow The Lovers Disturbed by Philip Pagre NOT only English people, whom it mainly concerns, will be interested in, and often vastly amused by, this wittily contro versial book, A Small Stir: Letters on the English, by James Bridie and Moray McLaren (Hollis and Carter: 8s. 6 d.). Why should a couple of Scots ...

... Tlie Foolish heiitlcwuman (Ihiclicms) IT is a novelist's play in the sense that it grows too slowly out of more explanations than there need be, but once it gets going the playgoer is given little reason for complaint. The story is one of those lucky inventions which seem to be true to the theatre and at the same time true to life. After providing a fairly rich mixture of plausible comedy ...

... 7 Cyrano de Bergerac (Now) PLAINLY our actors and producers can alike rise equal to the peculiar demands of Cyrano; but not, alas, our translators. The Old Vic's version of Rostand's glorious gasconade is in English, and the virtuosity of the supple, sparkling French verse has proved altogether too much for Mr. Brian Hooker. Possibly he would have done better had he never set eyes on Humbert ...

... ELIZABETH BOWELS The Clearing House Children of Vienna Get Away Old Man Here Comes a Chopper THE CLEARING HOUSE (Hodder and Stoughton; 12s. 6 d.) is a selection from the writings of John Buchan, arranged by his wife. Lady Tweedsmuir has sub-titled the book A Survey of One Man's Mind: this shows the idea behind the choice and arrange ment; and the idea has been worthily carried out. Few men ...

... TU Love Goes To Press (Duchess) THE woman war correspondent, we gather from this light comedy written by two of them, was something of a terror to rivals of the other sex. She was not braver or more enterprising than they, though seemingly ready for anything, but, being in a war which was run by men, she had certain natural advantages. II a staff car was cosier than a jeep in frozen Italy ...

... BOOK REVIEWS ELIZABETH BO WEI'S Symbol GLENWAY WESTCOTT'S short novel, The Pil grim Hawk (Hamish Hamilton; 5s.), is sub titled A Love Story-- never, probably, has a stranger story of love been written since the epoch of D. H. Lawrence. To suggest that Mr. Westcott resembles Lawrence would be completely misleading; and I do not do so. The four chief human characters in The Pilgrim Hawk are ...

... BOOK REVIEWS The Scarlet Tree The River Old Marylebone and Some of Its Famous People ELIZABETH BOWEAS THE SCARLET TREE (Macmillan; 15S. ) is the second volume of Sir Osbert Sit well's autobiography-- which as an entire work is to bear the name the author gave the first volume, Left Hand, Right Hand! The idea implicit in that title informs, and con tinues to architect, this present further ...