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... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE TT//S TIME IT'S LOVE (Comedy).-- How that amusing Frenchman, Louis Verneuil, ever came to write a quarter of a centurv ago so dull a plav as this, and whv two clever English people have taken the trouble to translate it, I find a bit of a mystery. The translation is a more than impossible job of work, and that is why, coupled with some excellent acting the evening was ...
... -By Vernon Fane Lion Feuchtwanger 's Story of Nazi Germany Ach-ack and a Kentish Village Murder in Pre-war Austria The Ingredients of a Chinese Puzzle THE new Feuchtwanger novel evokes this author's usual atmosphere of ugly splendour and macabre Gothic intrigue. It is a melodrama of Nazi Germany before this war, and tells the story of two men who are shown as having a dubious influence over ...
... -By Vernon Fane Norwegian Autobiography, and Life in Norfolk Conflict in France Death in Wyoming /Esop Refold The Latest Peter Cheyney IN the past few months many good and moving books have come out of Norway, and the latest of these is called RETURN TO HAPPINESS (Mac millan. 18s.), the autobio graphy of another kind of Norwegian. Mr. j onas Liea lias, m common witn Ms leiiow- Norwegian ...
... Walter de la Mare's Anthology of Love The Life of A. A. Milne Life on a Corvette Secret Service in Lforth Africa The Lady of the Manor The Beauties of the Home Counties --By Vernon Fane WHEN I picked up Mr. Walter de la Mare's LOVE (Faber, 25s.), I remem bered something Q once said: British poetry contains a very great deal of information about love, some of it really illuminating; but the ...
... A BATCH OF NEW NOVELS From Britain, America and Occupied Europe An Account of Lord B eaverbrook in Whitehall and Other Books of the Week By Vernon Fane IN her sensitive introduction to SOUTHERN HARVEST (Gollancz. ios. 6d.) Miss Clare Leighton writes that this book was written out of my own need. Missing the earth of England and the people of that earth, I wandered around here in the ...
... WAR BOOKS AND NEW NOVELS By Vernon Fane An Instructive, Cermany-froni'ivithin Account British Children Abroad The Life of a Roman Tribune A CatAovers' Classic A GOOD newspaperman on modern Germany is always worth reading, and Mr. Louis Lochner, chief of the Associated Press in Ber lin up to December 1941, is no exception to this rule. Mr. Lochner had fourteen years' experience of that country ...
... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE MERRY WIDOW.-- Whether London's return, theatrically speaking, to the reign of Edward VII is because that age was more peaceful and more civilised, or because its plays were better, I have not the space here to discuss. Possibly both reasons hold good. But it is pleasant to find Lehar's luscious tunes, with their memories of Daly's Theatre, at His Majesty's, with ...
... ADVERTISEMENTS as PROPAGANDA A New Idea sponsored by Imperial Chemical Industries Mr. Sidney Rogerson is, to-day, a power in advertising: he is in charge of all publicity for that vast organisation. Imperial Chemical Industries. But until the year 1937 he had been chiefly concerned with editorial and film propaganda. When war came two years later, it put a stop to the bulk of ad vertising as ...
... 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 ...
... A Foreign Correspondent at Large The Eagle Squadron of the R.A.F. The Lives of William and Mary Bonaparte and the Modern Parallel By Vernon Fane THERE is a genus of news paper-men called foreign correspondents who have, in the last ten years, reached a peculiar eminence of their own. Of these, one of the best known is Mr. Vincent Sheean, whose reputation is of an early 1930's vintage, and ...
... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE JT 'S Foolish But It 's Fun. So frequently one hears it said of some new revue in which deficiencies are obvious that it will be all right when it has been pulled together. In most. cases this is vain optimism, since there is nothing to pull together. But this show at the Coliseum, which at the first performance struck me (and a good many other people, it seems) as a ...