... By Herbert Far j eon Old Acquaintance (Globe) MR. JOHN VAN DRUTEN once wrote a tender and touching play entitled After All in which he demonstrated the indestructibility of old domestic ties-- a play of stodgy uncles, fusty aunts and seedy depen dants from whom the young turned with aversion as they grew up, but to whom they turned again as they grew older, wiser, less expectant of the future ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE New Gallery, I suppose, will again be the Mecca of parents with children to entertain these Christmas holi days. The new Disney Christmas annual is out, and it's called DUMBO, and proves to be the simple, gaudy, straightforward sort of thing that children expect from Disney, without any disturbing innovations. Dumbo is a baby elephant, an innocent, blue-eyed baby born ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IT is a sad commentary on the quality of life at the present day that lyrical poets should be so few. Poets we have in plenty; but they are reflective and interpre tative, satirical, denunciatory or partisan, prophets first and poets second. The spon taneous flowering of a mood, essential to lyric poetry, is withheld from them, so con cerned are they with dis cerning the ...

... //y/* By James Agate A Protest A Yank in the R.A.F. is one of the greatest ventures ever undertaken by 20th Century-Fox and one of Darryl Zanuck's costliest productions. Every phase of the great battle for Britain has been re enacted-- the take-off of the R.A.F. squadrons on the bombings of German cities, dog fights in the clouds, attacks on German ports, rail yards, hangars and troop ...