... 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 ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. VIRGINIA WOOLF'S post humous novel, Between the Acts, is the signal for us to raise our hats to the memory of a rare and ex quisite gift, a will-o'-the-wisp among more stationary and consistent luminaries, now tragically extinguished. But it is more than that, more than the final flicker of a light which, brightly as it burned, sometimes served only to em phasise the ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...