... Playbill Looks at the Shows What Every Woman Knows (Lyric). THIS is the second of the wartime Barrie revivals (apart from Peter Pan), and although it dates a bit-- it is thirty-five years old-- it is, I think, a better play than Dear Brutus. It is. more direct, it has more humour, and it is free from the more whimsical type of sentimen tality. True, it takes a long time to get to the ...

... by Playbill THE theatre has probably never meant so much, both in London and the 'provinces, as it does to-day. That is not to say that every theatrical produc- tion is full of meaning; many of them, in- cluding some of the most popular, mean precious little. But there is a probably unprecedented boom, and the living drama, from Shakespeare to pantomime, is being supported (most London ...