... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 2. FUNNY SIDE UP, AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. I'VE got tickets for 'Funny Side Up,' announced Ber nard, beaming. Laura's face fell. Not that she didn't want to see Funny Side Up, of which on all sides she heard excellent ac counts, but she realised that she never would get ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF FOR FREE DOM (Gaumont) didn't deal with events that stir us pretty deeply at the moment, I wouldn't put it at the top of this column. It is not, I regret to say, a very good picture. As a documentary mani festo of Britain at war, it is inferior to The Lion Has Wings and The First Days. As a fictional story, presenting Will Fyffe as an enterprising news-reel editor, it ...

... By V. S. Pritchett THE trouble about most thrillers is that, like boys' books, they are always crudely patriotic and ortho dox when they deal with international politics. Other people's politics are always being confounded and their knavish tricks frustrated with a self-righteousness which is very boring for anyone above Boy Scout age. It is also very old-fashioned. For patriotism has branched ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. SONS AND FATHERS, is a novel dealing with the last days of Tsarism and the beginnings of the Bolshevik Revolution. Mr. Maurice Hindus has chosen a title which deliberately chal lenges comparison with Turgenev's masterpiece. His story does not sustain the compari son, and it seems to me that the spirit of the men who made the Revolution is better ex pressed by Bazarov, in ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon Rebecca Queen's) MISS DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S drama tisation of her best-seller brings to light affinities with His House in Order, which took the town by storm thirty-five years ago. Both plays deal with second marriages. In both the husband brings back his second wife to a household dominated by the memory of his first. In both her intrusion is resented as an ...