... By Herbert Farjeon New Faces (Apollo) RE-ENTER New Faces. With some new faces and some (the best of them) not so new. With some fresh material and some (again the best of it) not so fresh. And the same lively, up-and-growing, star-in-the making, cheerful, clever air of well-drilled irresponsibility that proved so popular a year ago. This revue, which is much better than most, departed for the ...

... 'Nineteen Naughty One (Prince of Wales By Herbert Farjeon MR. ALFRED ESDAILE, the active theatrical manager, who is responsible for Strike Up the Music at the London Coliseum, and who may be said to be to Mr. George Black what Mr. George Black is to Mr. Cochran, has now presented at the Prince of Wales's Theatre another revue less spectacu lar, more intimate, written and produced by Mr. ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Annlesauce (Palladium) ONE by one the pre-blitz shows are drifting back to London. New Faces has reappeared al the Apollo. Once a Crook has bobbed up again at the New. Swinging the Gate and Up and Doing are shortly due at this theatre or that. Applesauce, formerly at the Holborn Empire, is now at the Palladium. If we've seen them before it would be churlish to complain. It ...

... By Herbert Farjeon The Beggar's Opera (New) OF the three revivals of The Beggar's Opera which have been seen in London since the end of the last war, this one at the New Theatre is emphatically and immeasurably the best. Sir Nigel Playfair's revival at the Hammer smith Lyric took the town with its airs and graces. Here was a thing, and a very pretty thing. But who was the owner of this very ...

... -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 ...

... (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 ...