... By Horace Horsnell Junior Miss (Saville) SPARE the rod and spoil-- I had almost said the child; but that would hardly cover the callow fauna that dominate this American play. Judy and her fellow co-eds look enough like children to deceive us at first into accepting them as such, and then being irritated by the mistake. They are young-- heavens, how young!-- and they speak a language we may ...

... By Horace Horsnell Strike a New Note (Prince of Wales) IN this type of popular revue, a new note is certainly to be welcomed; and if Mr. George Black's latest rouser does not con sistently strike it, the players do. They are young, eager, and professional. The programme informs us that they are boys and girls who have been gathered from every part of the country, needing but the opportunity to ...

... By Horace Horsnell Love for Love (Phoenix) THIS famous comedy was first performed over two hundred and fifty years ago, when Congreve was twenty-six. It has always been his most popular play, and has often been revived. Handsome is, they say, as handsome does, and the present revival by Mr. John Gielgud does not lack splendour. The reception at the Phœnix Theatre could hardly have been more ...

... Heartbreak House (Cambridge) By Horace Horsnell THIS loquacious play may not be Shaw's masterpiece, but it has magnificent pass ages. It is described as a fantasy in the Russian manner on English themes. That description serves; though it might be even more aptly described as a symposium in the Peacock manner on Shavian themes. Its form, of course, is much less rigid than Peacock's, its ...