... 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 C. A. LEJEUNE. MR. FRED ASTAIRE, you will remember, had a number in Care free in which he advocated Changing Partners. It was a charming number, one of his neatest and most tuneful, and a good many people, I fancy, will wish that it had stayed-- just a number. Screen partnerships are odd things. When they happen right, they are something more than the sum of two good performances. An x ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. BOTH as a writer and as a personality, Barrie had genius, and more than his share, perhaps, of the mystery that is inseparable from genius. In the immensely intricate pattern of his nature, shyness and showmanship were inextricably blended. Per haps unconsciously he realised the importance, in certain in stances, of not giving the public something that it wanted. Another ...