... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. LOVE ON THE DOLE, which you can see at the Odeon this week, is a very moving transcription of Walter Green wood's Lancashire play. It is the story ot the mill hands and their families in any Lancashire town, but in parti cular the story of the Hardcastles of Hankey Park father, mother, daughter Sally and eighteen-year-old brother Harry. Pennies are scarce enough in Hankey ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Up and Doing (Saville) TAKING it by and large, the impression left on me by this revue, which has now returned to the revivified Saville, was extremely gay and agreeable. Taking it item by item, what I felt was:-- (1) Opening, The Shop, smart, bright, brisk, auspicious as to chorus, principals and costumes, a good get-away. (2) I've Got You Where I Want You boy-and-girl ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Orpheus and Eurydice (New) A NEW ballet on a warm night in summer is irresistible to those who live by association-- and man cannot live, let us always recollect, by bread alone. The mind, and with the mind, the heart goes back to the keen, leaping days of youth: to loiterings outside Covent Garden between Tamar and Petrouchka; to the hot smell of straw in the nostrils, and ...

... The PASSING of SIR HUGH WALPOLE A Brief Pen-Portrait of the Herries Chronicler Four Flying Books Rupert Downing s Light Comedy An American Heiress in Italy -By Vernon Fane THE first book on my list this week is the current choice of the Book Society, and the moment is not inappropriate to offer a tribute to the memory of that Society's first chairman. Sir Hugh Walpole. It was largely because ...

... UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN AID Its Real Meaning Sir Walter Citrine's Odyssey H. V. Morton on Fighting Ground A Publisher's Reminiscences By Vernon Fane ONE of the most vital aspects of this phase of the war is, I am afraid, one upon which public opinion in this country is, to put it mildly, insufficiently informed. Since the passing of the Lease-and-Lend Bill, and the recent declaration by ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. UNLESS the supply is out of proportion to the demand, obviously people enjoy reading books about China. Here comes another, Through China's Wall, a travel book illustrated by the author. Perhaps travel book is not quite the right term, for although in and out of Mongolia and elsewhere Mr. Graham Peck moved about a great deal, he also, in Peking, ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. UNUSUAL subject-matter is always a help to a novelist, and may make a story of only average quality seem better than it really is. Hankow Return is above the average as a novel, but it owes a good deal of its interest to the author's special know ledge of the Sino-Japanese War, and particularly to the part played in it by aircraft. Bill Monroe, the hero, had begun by ...

... PERSONAL EXPERIENCES vie with NOVELS The Memoirs of an Australian Journalist Peter Fontaine's Flight From Paris A Complex Character Study Nineteenth Century Village Life A Collection of Forceful Short Stories -By Vernon Fane THERE is one way in which a journalist in these days can escape the trials of censors and the B.B.C., and that is by writing a book. In 1 LIVED THESE YEARS (Harrap. 10s. ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Rise Above It (Comedy) ENTER, cheek by jowl, the two Hermiones. The cheek being the cheek of Hermione Baddeley, the jowl being the jowl of Hermione Gingold; and the entertainment in which they join their brilliant forces being Rise Above It, a revue that is unusually bright, unusually gay, and both unusually and usually dirty. The brightness and the gaiety are delightful. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...