... Thunder Rock is Filmed Michael Redgrave and Frederick Valk in their original parts as Charleston, the 1940 Escapist, and Dr. Kurtz, Escapist of an Earlier Century Just over two years ago, Thunder Rock written by a young American, Robert Ardrqy, was produced at the Neighbourhood Theatre in Kensington. Its success was immediate and very soon it was transferred to the West End. The play has now ...

... By Horace Horsnell Let's Face It (Hippodrome) THE show we are invited to face at the Hippodrome is well worth looking at. It is a musical comedy of American origin and manners. And since its plot resembles a Christmas tree, in that it serves primarily as a foundation for the display of festive diversities, we are not obliged to approach it as a serious work of dramatic art. The libretto serves ...

... By Horace Horsnell The Petrified Forest (Globe) ROBERT SHERWOOD'S drama of the Arizona desert (as filmgoers will remember) is less stony than its title suggests. Though its scene and most of its characters are primi tive, there is nothing prehistoric about the plot. The petrified forest is a local landmark, and only remotely symbolic. Dreams, they tell us, are fraught with symbolism, but ...

... By Horace Horsnell It Happened in September (St. James's) BUT not, one feels, quite in this way. The dramatist who bases the action of his play on topical history is liable to give hostages to realism. Particularly when that topical history has to carry and colour a personal story. Such dramatic surprises as the action must spring will depend less on those basic events, since they are common ...

... By Horace Horsnell Henry the Fourth Part Two (Westminster) As that blithe apocrypha, 1066 and All That, reminds us, King Richard II was succeeded by Henry IV Part One and Two. This plain but commendable production further reminds us that, as chronicled by Shakespeare, Part Two of that great king's life is an even more magnificent play than Part One. And what plays they are! The characters ...

... By Horace Horsnell Sadler's Wells Ballet (New) THE hat trick, rare enough on other playing fields, is even rarer on the stage. And to have pulled off three clear successes running, as Robert Helpmann, the Sadler's Wells choreographer has done, is cause for compliments. His three consecutive ballets-- Comus, Hamlet, and The Birds-- excel both in substance and style If, to many good judges, ...

... Ginger in Triplicate In The Major and The Minor Ginger Rogers plays havoc with Ray Milland as herself, a girl of twelve, and her own Mother In The Major and The Minor Paramount* s latest comedy (Plaza, December 18), Ginger Rogers has a new leading man Ray Milland. The picture a screen play by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett is directed by Wilder, who has never before made a picture, ...

... 66 The Petrified Forest Robert E. Sherwood's Play Comes to the West End With Owen Nares in the Part Created by Leslie Howard The Petrified Forest is being presented by H. M. Tennent at the Globe Theatre to-night. It is the London production of a play which proved one of Leslie Howard's greatest successes on both stage and screen in the 1930's. Written by Robert E. Sherwood, who has already ...