... TU By Herbert Farjeon The Blue Goose (Comedy) IF you want to get the feeling that there isn't a war on and that life in 1941 is pro ceeding just as evenly and calmly as it did (or did it?) ten years ago, a visit to the Comedy Theatre may possibly supply your need. Not that life as depicted in The Blue Goose is appreciably more like life in 1931 than it is now. It isn't. It doesn't nretend to ...

... (A Hui By James Agate Which Eve BE sure oi this, reader, that when the cinema says Eve it means the Eve not of Mr. Shaw but of Mr. Shakespeare. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock- pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Sadler's Wells Ballet (New Theatre) IN these barbaric days (or are there still people who maintain that the world progresses?), a little culture is a great consolation. If humanity must fight for its life when the guns get going, so, no less tenaciously, must art. And in a country that regards it as a wanton waste of money to spend one governmental penny on the theatre in ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Jupiter Laughs (New) THE action of Dr. Cronin's play (a very workmanlike affair) takes place in a private nerve clinic, the particular locale chosen being the doctor's common-room, which happily spares us the patients. Here we are introduced to Dr. Drewett, an amiable old hand much engrossed in playing patience, and to Dr. Thorogood, an unamiable young one, much engrossed in ...

... //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 ...

... 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 ...

... Actresses Will Happen 99 Apollo By Herbert Farjeon TO complete the old saying, as modernised by Walter Ellis for the purposes of this farce, Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. And even when they don't, they may yearn to happen, as was the case with the Pryor family at the Apollo. This consisted of Mr. Pryor (Christopher Steele), who was prim and pernickety; Mrs. Pryor ...

... The A.W.V.S. By Pamela Murray FROM Alaska to Kentucky the American Women's Voluntary Service is recruiting volunteers who will take civil defence and first aid courses; enrolling as drivers and helpers of all kinds. The organisation is being modelled on our W.V.S. of splendid reputation. One of the first to join in Bedford County, N.Y., was Eleanor Iselin Mason, a young sculp tress who studied ...

... -Hut Thdw-j By James Agate IT makes it easier to get through this war if one declines-- but that is too weak a word-- if one refuses to believe that the good things of this world arc in anything but abeyance, and a short-lived abeyance, too. I believe with all my heart and soul, and, what is even more important, with my full mind that the good little things of this world will return in their ...

... Books.- 1 Reviewed by r Noel Thompson LET us start off this month with a book which is surely going to be a winner, The Thin Blue Line (Hutchinson, 5s.) by Charles Graves. It does not matter what Charles Graves writes about, you will always learn something new, and this book, his first in novel form, is no exception. He has taken seven young men who joined the R.A.F. in October, 1939 as his ...

... : Reviewed by Noel Thompson TWO books this month have their setting for the most part on board ship. The first is Life Boat by Signe Toksvig (Faber and Faber, 7s. 6d.), and a very unusual book this is. The plot is that of the American wife of a German husband on their way back to Germany. The husband's former governess is on board, now a missionary, and terribly wounded about the face by the ...

... Russian Opera Mussorgsky's Sorotchintsi Fair at the Savoy Theatre The merrymakers of Sorotchintsi a Ukrainian village, group themselves round the gipsy fortune-teller Lipa Balmont), whose tale of a 44 pig-headed devil in a red coat plays its part in the gay, inconsequent story Mussorgsky's comic opera, Sorotchintsi Fair, which is based on a story of Gogol, who himself was a native of ...