... By Herbert Farjeon On Approval (Aldwych) HERE are two revivals, the first (unex pectedly) being a revival of the theatre orchestra. This takes one back. Let us hope it also takes one forward. For, speaking generally, live and lively fiddlers are jollier, though admittedly more expensive, than inanimate and unexhilarating grinding- machines, exercising over the atmosphere of the auditorium a ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Goodnight Children (Netvj As a butt for his latest play Mr. J. B. Priestley has invented an organisation which he has named the English Broadcasting Company, known as the E.B.C., and which, we are warned on the programme, is not to be confused with the British Broad casting Corporation, known as the B.B.C. This, I must confess, was, in my own case, more easily read than ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Variety Metropolitan THERE comes a time when, after many comedies, tragedies, farces, revues, plays, highbrow and lowbrow, productions intimate and super, one pines for a whiff of variety. Max Beerbohm broadcasts on the old days in the music halls. Robert Lynd follows up with an essay. My hat! What memories! By the teeth of Marie Lloyd, by the feet of Little Tich, by George ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Ridgeway's Late Joys (Player1 s) ALTHOUGH, as mentioned the other week, there is now no music-hall in the West End of London, something very like a music-hall is, after all, what you get at the Player's Theatre, which is one of the places of entertainment I visit at short intervals for pleasure as well as at long intervals for duty; for the company off the stage as well as ...