... : Reviewed by Noel Thompson IT must be almost a burden to have written a book of which five million copies have been sold. Henceforth in comparison everything you produce must seem puny. Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet On The Western Front and caught the tide of anti-war feeling. His latest book Flotsam (Hutchinson, 9s. 6d.) deals with the fate of those people without a passport or ...

... WAR BOOKS and the PARIS THAT WAS Goring Gets It Wrong Again The Empire at War A Lucky Australian Ship A Woman Reporter's War Modigliani, Kiki, Picasso and the Rest -By Vernon Fane IF we are to believe the words of the bemedalled Goring, (in this case there can be no reason to doubt them), the Germans on entering this war made one of their habitual mis calculations. Never again, said Goring ...

... Vivid Accounts of the Nazi Scourge William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary The Polish Angle A Professor Witnesses the Subjugation of Tforway A Third Issue of Modern Reading -By Vernon Fane I WONDER how many people could have forecast with any accuracy the course that radio would take in this war. By that I do not mean the develop ment of radiolocation and all those kind of things, but of ordinary ...

... The LIVES of MEN in the PUBLIC EYE A Biography of Lord Halifax The Story of the Sassoons Dr. Rauschning's Counter -Tiazi Philosophy By Vernon Fane AS long as there are famous men, people will want to know about them, and to read about them. So wrote the author of the recently-published biography of such a man. Modern publicity methods and the development of newspapers and magazines into gossip ...

... THE THEATRE IN WARTIME The Festival at Stratford-on-Avon and a Brief Review of London's Shows. By PHILIP PAGE IT has been remarked that if William Shakespeare could have attended his own Festival last week, Stratford-on-Avon under a black-out would have sur prised him. It would not. There are many things about wartime Stratford which would have caused him surprise (among them, I think, certain ...

... Three Novels in Varied Settings Yorkshire Sagas and Russian Eccentrics Mr. Lloyd Douglas's J\[ew Book Bv Vernon Fane THERE are some who complain that the re gional novelist is too much with us. Late and soon; getting and spending they lay waste their powers; and all that sort of thing. It is a poor line ol criticism. The novels of Trollope or of Hardy do not suffer from the limitations of ...

... THE LITERARY f LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. I AM always aware of a strangeness in the novels of Mr. Joyce Cary, and, trying to analyse it, I find it comes partly from the quality and partly from the attitude of his mind. The quality and the attitude, I suppose, are really aspects of the same thing; the first has the greater effect on one while reading the book, the second when reflecting on it. ...

... Reviewed by Philip Page NEARLY a year ago, when things in London were difficult, to say the least of it, there was a boom in ballet. The Vic-Wells Ballet, orchestraless, drew crowds to the New Theatre, and have recently had another successful season there, with an orchestra, albeit a little one. They even produced a new ballet, Orpheus and Eurydice (which was about the dullest thing ever did I ...

... By Herbert Far j eon The Mail Who Came to Dinner (Savoy) ON its first night at the Savoy this American success was a roar both on the stage and off. The roaring off the stage was done by the audience, which delighted in the sophisticated, flish-flash sallies provided by those ingenious and indefatigable authors, George Kaufman and Moss Hart. The roaring on the stage was done by that admirable ...

... (oi -His. Thdwuf By James Agate To Like, or To Dislike MY excellent and fair-minded colleague, Miss Lejeune, has been telling us that either you like or dislike Miss Katharine Hepburn just as you like or dislike Mr. Crosby, Mr. Cagney and the Marx Brothers. I feel that here is a half-truth to which I must devote half a page. Let us begin with Mr. Crosby. Obviously you cannot like an artist who ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Orchids and Onions (Comedy) ALTHOUGH there are quite a lot of people in this more or less intimate revue, it is really a one-man show, and that one man is George Doonan. When I first saw Mr. Doonan, I jumped to the conclusion that he was going to turn out commonplace, which is not a good thing for a comedian to be, as well as turning out common, which is quite a good thing ...

... (A iixJL By James Agate A Good War Film IT was the Americans, I think, who invented that beautiful phrase sales resistance. Thus a publisher, instead of a brutal Can't get rid of a darned copy, has the suave Sorry to tell you, madam, your novel is meeting with a considerable amount of sales resistance. Think how usefully the scope of this phrase might be extended. Of Miss Null, whose ...