... By Herbert Farjeon Women Aren't Angels Strand THIS farce by Vernon Sylvaine, in which characters, still further to brighten the dialogue, answer to such surnames as Butch, Bandle and Popday; in which husbands hunt, or are hunted by their wives, in pairs; in which pretty girls in dishabille are bundled behind curtains at short notice to avoid-- or can it be to arouse?-- suspicion; and in which ...

... Wednesday After The War (New) By Herbert Farjeon ONE gathers from the theme or title song of this outstandingly unexhilarating musical production that by the Wed nesday After the War everything in the garden of Europe will be absolutely wonderful, and that we shall all immediately be allowed as much petrol as we can use and as many onions as we can digest, while young ladies will respond with ...

... By Herbert Farjeon No Time for Comedy (Haymarket) SMART is the word for this play, which is as smart as they make them. As smart as Noel Coward, though it is by S. N. Behrman. As smart as Schiaparelli, though Diana Wynyard's costumes were de signed and executed by Paquin and Victor Stiebel. As smart, twice, thrice as smart, as the Haymarket Theatre, where it is being played. And the ...

... (tA Hut By James Agate Good Material and Bad THE incommunicable mystery of the sea. I forget who said this. Perhaps nobody. Possibly it is merely the crystallisation of what all seafarers, and landfarers too, have felt about the world's changeless, ever-changing high-roads. Whatever its origin the phrase sums up the informing spirit of that great writer, Joseph Conrad, which is at once ...

... 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 ...