... By Herbert Farjeon Quiet Week-end (Wyndham's) WHEN Turgenev says A Month in the Country, we know that he means a month in the country, and a month in the country it is. But when Esther McCracken (who wrote Quiet Wedding) says Quiet Week-end, we know that she does not mean quiet week-end, and quiet week-end it certainly is not. Unrest to the point of commotion is the keynote of this comedy. On ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WE have learnt, in The Prime Minister, that Disraeli interested him self, amongst other things, in a Bill for Public Baths and Wash-houses. I n .The Young Mr. Pitt, we shall pre sently see Robert uonat piaying at Brooks' Cltib a game called Hazard, that was the forerunner of America's modern craps shooting. Currently, in LADY HAMILTON (Odeon). we discover that ...

... Russia Stalin's Complex Land Caucasus Journey Lions are not like That The Wives of the R.A.F. An Analysis of Invasion: Reds, Pinks and Russians --By Vernon Fane BY some extraordinary felicity of timing, Mr. George Sava has only now published his account of a journey made in 1918 from Baku to Tiflis across the mountains of the Caucasus. His VALLEY OF FOR GOTTEN PEOPLE (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d. ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. FORREST REID'S criticism of books is, I suppose, a little old fashioned; he does not use terms such as integral or organic, and his attitude of mind is relaxed and meditative rather than tense and twanging. This is not because some of the essays collected in Retrospective Adventures were written a good many years ago, several in the nineteen- twenties and one or two ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Close Quarters (Apollo) THE characters in the order of their appearance are Liesa Bergmann and Gustav Bergmann. In other words, there are only two, so that it is clear from the word go that the play, which is in three acts of regulation length, will be something of a feat. How will the author accomplish this feat? A tricky business. But there are the steps of unseen ...

... UNDERSTANDING the GERMAN MENTALITY -By Vernon Fane Two Books Which Tell of German Aspirations Even Before Hitler; A Legend of India; A Pre' War Love Story DURING her recent visit, Miss Dorothy Thompson, whose sympathetic and bal anced broadcasts and public statements were so much appreciated over here, was able to do some plain speaking off the record. One of the things she said was that we ...

... The Storytellers Hold Court Virginia Woolf's Last Jsfovel E. M. Delafield's Family Saga; A Vfapoleonic Refugee Divorce^Court and Other Reminiscences --By Vernon Fane ALMOST anybody will admit that Virginia Woolf's last book, The Years, was not easy to read on first sight, though the kind of reader who would be unprepared to make the effort would be denying himself much aesthetic and ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF ever there was a film that carried substan tial insurance at the box-office, it is ZIEGFELD GIRL (Empire, Friday). Ziegfeld Girl, if it adds very little to the esoterica of f i 1 m m ak i n g simply can't go wrong with the cus tomers. Costing round about a quarter of a million pounds (we can make it sound even more impressive in dollars), it is showy, shrewd and ...

... Fictional Finesses in Varied Form C. S. Foresters Yankee Hero; ]\[orah Hoult Guys the Deep South School A Tough Tyro; Sassoon and Saroyan Seltcted MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON VISITS THE CZECH FORCES IN BRITAIN The famous American journalise now visiting this country has just paid a visit to the Midlands to inspect Czech troops. She was accompanied by Mr. Jan Masaryk (Czech Foreign Minister on left ...

... Lady Behave (His Majesty's) By Herbert Farjeon IT is some time since we last met the heroine who, being an archduchess or a million airess or something similarly unspiritually dazzling, rejects the gifts with which fortune has blessed her and temporarily swaps hats with her maid because she wants to be loved for herself alone. She became, I suppose, a bit of a laughing-stock, or, if not a ...

... Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg Sacheverell Sitwell's Diversion The Swashbuckling Trelawny Another Last to Leave Paris Book Tennis, Cocktails, Love and War -By Vernon Fane THE Wellsian mantle of pro phecy having descended upon the astrologers of the Sun day newspapers with a sickening thud, it would be unwise to assume that anyone out of touch with these dubious sources would have ...

... By PHILIP PAGE ALL the principal ladies-- and there were four of them-- in Lady, Behave (His Majesty's Theatre), a musical-comedy, behaved immaculately, except for occasional bursts of ill-temper, rendered necessary by the plot, or possibly the lack of it. In the case of the chief of the bunch, Miss Sally Gray, so pretty does she look when she is angry that it must be well worth while having a ...