... Two Bio- novels COME critics say that the lives of celebrated i ^people should not be written in novel form. I cannot see why, provided the dialogue s S is probable and known facts are not falsified. In any case, dialogue has to be projected for S S stage, radio, and film, and romantic -stories like Chopin's and George Sand's are almost S S novels already too tempting to resist; where hundreds ...

... By Horace Horsnell Show Boat (Sloll): The Vagabond King (W inter Garden) MUSICAL comedy has its classics no less renowned than, opera. Several of them have recently been revived; three are now playing to full houses, and more are promised. Such renaissance, though unusual, is not merely a sign of the times. In these difficult days, when so much theatre talent is otherwise engaged or ...

... A SELECTION FOR THE SERIOUS-MINDED -Bv Vernon Fane The Friendship of Keats and Severn The Nazis on Land and Sea Twelve Religious Plays by Dorothy Sayers Past and Present Lives and Loves THERE was once a man, an artist, who, while still very young, accom panied a dying friend abroad and tended him through all the rigours of a voyage in an early nineteenth-century sailing-ship, and through all ...

... Reviewed by Trevor Allen WHY do we, who live in an age of electric switches, bathrooms, and bombs, experience a nos talgic glow when we. read of houses illuminated throughout by oil lamps, where hip baths were laid out every evening in the bedrooms? Seventy lamps nad to be trimmed and filled everv morning at Denbies, the Dorking home of Sir Stephen Tallents's grandfather, built by his great ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS EDITH SITWELL has made an antho logy of aphorisms re lating to poetry and the other arts, with annotations and comments by herself. She calls it A Poet's Notebook. It is a great privilege to be given a bouquet of blooms plucked from the garden of this most gifted poet, their hues and perfumes inter mingling to form an analogy or metaphor for the character of her own ...