... TU By Horace Horsnell Old Chelsea (Prince's) I OLD times, sentimentally approached, are apt to display ye olde veneer; and there are writers whose quality may be judged by their attitude to the past. This may be patronising, which is bad; snobbish, which is worse, or just plumb whimsical, which but it is late in the day to flog that poor lade, the musical-comedy libretto. Good ness knows ...

... TlC, Current Nonsense By James Agate To most people escape means unreality. By this I mean not something true about a new and unknown world but something false about the old and familiar one. No manicurist wants to learn how, for example, her Chinese opposite number feels about lacquering the nails of unspeakably old and hideous mandarins. What she wants to hear about ishow the modern Sophie ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Punch and Judy THE other day in a London street I came on a sight rare enough in peace time and still less expected in time of war. It was a Punch-and-Judy show, trundling on its way, unhonoured but unhit, and I followed hopefully for a short distance, not only because of the dearth of theatrical entertainments in town, but because, even when entertainment is plen tiful, I ...

... //y/* By James Agate A Protest A Yank in the R.A.F. is one of the greatest ventures ever undertaken by 20th Century-Fox and one of Darryl Zanuck's costliest productions. Every phase of the great battle for Britain has been re enacted-- the take-off of the R.A.F. squadrons on the bombings of German cities, dog fights in the clouds, attacks on German ports, rail yards, hangars and troop ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE That Censorship MANY years ago I wrote a novel called Responsibility. The crux of this novel was when in 1914 an illegiti mate son sought out his father saying that he had never worried him before but that, now that he was going to give his life, he would like to have as much to give it for as the other lads of his age possessing fathers who acknowledged them. ...

... Happy and Glorious (Palladium) By Horace Horsnell ALTHOUGH it is a wartime production, this Musical Fanfare has a peace-time éclat. The somewhat grandiloquent title, Happy and Glorious, suits it. It is true Variety, neither highbrow nor low, but just what the general public wants. And since good news travels fast and far, the big Palla dium arena is packed twice daily. The artists who ...

... BOOK REVIEWS THE NEW BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPION ELIZABETH BOWEN'S The Cruise of The Breadwinner China Servant Staying the Course THE CRUISE OF 'THE BREADWINNER' (Michael Joseph; 55.) is a tale of the sea in wartime, by H. E. Bates. This author's famous Fair Stood the Wind for France was, you will remember, a full-length novel: this his latest book-- the pages number not more than sixty- ...

... Cavalcade of Mystery (Aldwych) By Herbert Farjeon As a critic of magic I can boast no great pretensions. I must, in fact, confess myself in this respect a simpleton and a booby, my education as to goldfish, rabbits and vanishing ladies having been sadly neglected. For though my parents took me regularly to see Henry Irving and Ada Rehan and Charles Wyndham and Johnnie Toole from the age of ...

... (bfr Castle Anna (Lyric, Hammersmith) Burlesque Princes Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt THE theatre cannot be said to open its arms to distinguished novelists. At their approach it is apt to put on a closed shop stare and to growl out something about the need for a period of apprenticeship. Thus, unhappily, it stares, and thus it growls at Miss Elizabeth Bowen. This novelist's proved gifts-- ...

... THOUGH styles in the performance of music may change, genuine artistry and showmanship must always count, and in this country we have one singer who, in his own particular line, is still in the top class. His name is Sam Browne, and he has been making gramophone records since 1922. To-day he can show anyone who may doubt his capabilities that he has a long way to go yet. To prove this, listen ...

... Ellen Terry and Bernard Show The River Line 44 Parson Austen's Daughter Elizabeth Havens ELLEN TERRY AND BERNARD SHAW: A CORRESPONDENCE, edited by Chris topher St. John, was originally published in 1931. Messrs. Reinhardt and Evans, having acquired the book, now re-issue it, at 18s., in an admirably illustrated edition. There are photographs of Ellen Terry; of G.B.S.-- The most suitable ...

... THE CINEMA BY JAMES AGATE Nonsense and Sense THERE is a horrible scene at the end of Edmond de Goncourt's La Faustin. Lord Annandale is dying, and the French tragédienne who is his mistress is keeping watch by the bedside. Presently she begins to study the workings of the human countenance in extremis. And since her art has become her second nature, she goes to the mirror to see if she will be ...