... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. t HANGMEN ALSO DIE (Tivoli and Marble Arch Pavi lion) tackles a subject that seems a little too big for its autho director, Fritz Lang, and his company of Hollywood artists. This is the story of the search for the assassin of Heydnch, the Hang man of Czechoslovakia, and, more grandiosely, the apotheosis of the soul of the Czech people. The pick of the soul of the Czech ...

... By Horace Horsnell Hi-de-Hi (Palace) SUCH a title as Hi-de-Hi suggests that the show itself will have unconventional features. And, sure enough, it has. Bud Flanagan sees to that. He is one of our most redoubtable outragers of dull decorum. More over, he has not merely a touch of that nature which makes a whole audience kin, but both hands (one Cockney, the other kosher) full. If ever chill ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE MINISTRY OF FEAR is a superior spy-story, written in the grand manner and re calling, in the author's treat ment of his subject, the murky intensity of Conrad's Secret Agent. Mr. Graham Greene's scene is London in the blitz, and among the minor characters the German bombs must be reckoned as not the least amiable. The human beings who decorate the stage are, for the ...

... EIGHT BOOKS FOR DIFFERENT MOODS Miss Mary Lavin's Masterly Short Stories Theatres of the U.S.S.R. The Experiences of a Soldier and a Pilot Three Novels and a Thriller -By Vernon Fane IN his preface to Miss Mary Lavin's book of short stories Lord Dunsany writes that he had no advice what ever to give her about literature; so I have only helped her with her punctuation, which is bad, and with ...