Body and Soul
... . By John Brophy. (Harrap 15s.) The fortunate publisher, reads the blurb, has no need to write up John Brophy. This reviewer is no less fortunate. BOOKS IN BRIEF. ...
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... . By Mariorie Coryn. (Hodder and Stoughton 9s. 6d.) Napoleonic episodes in the form of a novel. Talleyrand and Barras as characters. Napoleon apostrophises Ah, women Women There 's 110 keeping them out of anything. But the dialogue isn't all as silly as that. ...
Cotswold Stone
... . By Freda Derrick. (Chapman and Hall 9s. 6d.) A fascinating subject dealt with by a writer who introduces whimsical bits of autobiography. The illustrations are more informative than the text. ...
SHUFFLEY WANDERERS
... . By John Pudney. (The Bodley Head 8s. 6 d.) IT is a pity, also, about Mr. John Pudney, for it is scarcely necessary to say that he, too, can write exceedingly well, and in this politico- bucolic farce does himself less than justice. It is little more than a year since Mr. Evelyn Waugh sent a classics master off to a totalitarian country for a holiday, and here we have a village football team ...
THE LAST DAYS OF DOLWYN
... EMLYN WILLIAMS' original film, The Last Days of Dolwyn, will chiefly be remembered for the superb performance of Dame Edith Evans, in a medium that is still comparatively new to her. But the picture has such a strong native quality of its own, is set out with such delicacy of feeling against a background of the most enchanting countryside, that for quite two- thirds of its length it holds ...
THE LONG NIGHT
... I HAVE not chosen this film as an example of good workmanship, nor as an entertainment, but as an awful warning. It shows what may happen when a minor classic of the screen is remade by skill-less hands and inferior intelli gences; how easily the bloom can be rubbed off, and how even the strokes and touches that are retained here and there from the original can become meaningless in a new and ...
TELEVISION
... by Robert Dane ONLY a thoroughly cantankerous critic could complain of a fortnight which included, in dramatic affairs alone. Widowers' Houses, The Silver Box, Buoyant Billions and French Without Tears-- both the last-named with their original West End casts-- a brand-new and exciting production of Pagliacci, and the first performance of a new play by John Pudney. All this and, for good or ill ...
CAT OF MANY TAILS
... . By Ellery Queen. Gollancz 9s. 6d.) THE most avid seeker after murder and yet more murder could scarcely be disappointed 'in Ellery Queen's premise no less than nine stranglings by a single mass murderer who uses the same method in each case, and the same kind of Indian tussore silk cord, only varying its colour with the sex of his victim. The interesting problem which faces the detective ...
ANOTHER CHORUS
... . By J. F. Burke. (Werner Laurie 9s. 6 ...
ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH SOCIAL HISTORY. (Vol. I.)
... tf* -A By G. M. Trevelyan. Longmans 18s.) A new edition of this important book, with many well-selected plates. ...
THE SINGING APPLE
... 7T . By Peter Traill. Jenkins 85. 6 d.) Short stories, often with snap endings and cunning twists of plot. There is a faintly Edwardian atmosphere about them, though they are set in the present. ...
THE OLD BANK HOUSE
... w . By Angela Thirkell. (Hamish Hamilton 12s. 6 d.) Mrs. Thirkell's Barsetshire is so firmly 011 the map that no more need be said than that here is a new delightful chronicle of its inhabitants. ...