... 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 ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB is a sequel to the author's Ser geant Lamb of the 9th, and it carries Lamb's story to the end of the War of American Independence. He fought in six battles; Guildford Court House was the last. Yet [he observes] I was by no means yet at the end of my wanderings, and I may affirm without boasting or fear of contradiction that, before I had done, the ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE Prime Minister of THE PRIME MINISTER, at Warner's Theatre this week, is not the one that most people will expect from the title, but Benjamin Disraeli. Or, rather. three Mr. Disraelis, covering all sixty of those glorious vears that Miss Neagle has told us so much about.- Young Mr. Disraeli looking like Mr. John Gielgud. Middle-aged Mr. Disraeli looking like Mr. ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. ERIC LINKLATER'S autobiography, The Man on My Back, starts so many hares that one scarcely knows which to follow. Mr. Linklater's body is as active as his mind-- and if we follow that, setting off from his native Orkney, we shall have traversed a large part, and perhaps the most interesting part, of the globe. Mr. Linklater lived in India and America in India as a ...

... Books for the Story-Lover Robert Graves and Sergeant Lamb Peter Cheyney' s Tough Detectives Jerome Weidman' s Horse and Two Lady TJovelists -By Vernon Fane THOSE who have read Mr. Robert Graves' Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth, will pleasantly anticipate the sequel and conclusion to the fictionised story of that remarkable character published now under the title of PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB (Methuen. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WHETHER THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (Gaumont) strikes you as just about the best film of the sea you have ever seen, or as a rather sordid recital of raw life between the devil and the deep, I can promise you one thing you won't be able to forget it. I should hate to have to prophesy what The Long Voyage Home will do at the box-office. It may prove to be too tough for the times. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WHEN Katharine Hepburn and the film industry parted brass-rags just over two years ago, no one would have pre dicted that the actress would be back so soon, breaking records in the very picture-houses where they once called her box-office poison. Yet that is exactly what has happened with THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. The Philadelphia Story, after 416 performances in 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 ...

... I GIVE full marks to H. B. Saxe. He has taken an Edgar Wallace style of plot, the Damon Runyan present tense, and a nice selection of slang and called it The Ghost Knows His Greengages (Constable, 7s. 6d.). The result is as good and as funny a thriller as you can want, set in the familiar West End of London with a Moat House with underground dungeon for variety. The ghost is a good character ...

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