... ARTISTRY-BIOGRAPHICAL and FICTIONAL --By Vernon Fane Arnold Palmer's Candid Biography Houses Old and j\[civ One of Alice Duer Miller's Earlier Novels Tough Characters and a Thriller That Really Thrills I HAVE no idea whether there is a critics' convention that opposes any favourable refer ence to a contemporary's dis position. If there is I intend to ignore it and to state that Mr. Arnold ...

... ■By Vernon Fane Captain Evelyn Waugh's Hew Hovel A Best-Seller from America Rachel Field's Last Work The English Romantic Movement I SHOULD like to thank Cap tain Evelyn Waugh for publishing WORK SUSPENDED (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.). In a dedication to that wise old owl, Alexander Woollcott, the author says: This is the book on which I was at work in September 1939. It is now clear to me that ...

... GRAVITY, GAIETY and GHOSTS The Tragedy of Malaya Mr. Price Among the Mediums A Children's Book for Grown'Ups A Discursive Dachshund -By Vernon Fane THE Malayan campaign, and the loss of Singapore, re mains one of the greatest tragedies of the last three years of war; possibly the greatest defeat that British arms have suffered during that time. Mr. Ian Morrisons MALAYAN POSTSCRIPT (Faber. Ss. ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE little Windmill Theatre, with its non- stop revue (which has not stopped, save for necessary rest and refreshment a few hours in the twenty-four for the company, for ten years or so) has other claims to consideration in addition to its record of hard work and the fact that it is the only London theatre to have had a play written about it and produced in New York. I ...

... MEMOIRS, MURDER AND ADVENTURE -Bv Vernon Fane Sir Henry J\[ewbolt's Autobiography, and His Lighter Side Three J\[ew Thrillers The Balkans Under Fire and let- or SIR HENRY oOLT (Faber and Faber. 2 is.) comprise the second volume of his memoirs which he started writing in 1932, six years before his death, and they have been edited by Lady Newbolt. This part of his reminiscences and diaries ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE The most important novelty is The Petrified Forest, at the Globe Theatre, which comes from America, where it had a long run. Mr. Robert Emmett Sherwood has never written a bad play yet, and this is almost (but, to my mind, not quite) his best. It deals with gangsters yet they are only incidental (though they shoot the hero dead), and it is not gangster drama, but a ...