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... THE THEATRE BOOM CONTINUES Last Week's J\[ew Plays Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE I HOPE all those very serious people who since the outbreak of war have been wringing their hands and wailing that the London theatre has gone to demned perdition because little has been produced beyond flimsy musical shows are now satisfied. For Thunder Rock, the meta physical, political, social-economical, psychical ...
... A WAR-TIME BOOM IN THEATRELAND Dear Octopus Again Presented A Revival of The Devil's Disciple Shakespeare at Regent's Park A New Farce at the Duke of York's Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE FOR some inscrutable reason there is something very like a boom in theatreland. True, it is a rather pathetic little war-time boom; yet a boom it is, and not the least remarkable feature is that it has come at a ...
... BOOKS for the ARM-CHAIR TRAVELLER Night in Bombay; High Sierra; And so to Bath --By Vernon Fane MR. LOUIS BROMFIELD has travelled a long way since he gave Annie Spragg to the world, and became someone to whom the wit and beauty of Europe flocked to accept a delightful hospitality at Senlis. Senlis, alas, is no more, and Mr. Bromfield has very properly returned to the Ohio farm of his ...
... NOVELS SET IN DISTANT LANDS A Sfory of the East English Country Life A Blood from the West By Vernon Fane MR. LIN YUTANG is a Chinese who writes in English. Many readers will remember how much they enjoyed, and were impressed by, The Importance of Living and My Country and My People. Now Mr. Lin Yutang has published a novel of contem porary Chinese life, MOMENT IN PEKING Heinemann. 15s.) ...
... MURDER AND MUSIC A Thriller at the Lyric; The Proms Again Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE IN spite of the sort of weather one expects to get in August (which is surely a sufficiently safe way of putting it) and sundry alarms and excursions, the theatrical boom which started a month or so ago not only continues but (as I write) is increasing. It is true that last week only one new play was produced, ...
... THE MEMOIRS OF A GOVERNOR-GENERAL John Buchan Roger Fry Some Defectives and Spies By Vernon Fane The original Wilton Carpet factory, established in the seventeenth century, is now closing down owing to lack of orders. Its passing will be sorely mourned by its aged and faithful employees, only twenty of whom, out of 150, remain to finish standing orders. The romantic history of the factory ...