... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE LOTTIE DUNDASS.-- Rare indeed are good plays about the theatre and back stage life. Until the production of Miss Enid Bagnold's play at the Vaudeville I would have said there were only two-- relawney of the Wells and The Light of Heart. In some ways Lottie Dundass is better than either-- and that not merely because it is a- thriller which really does thrill. There ...

... A DIVERSE ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS -By Vernon Fane An Author 'Photographer in Burma The Letters of a Tory Gentleman Tforway Under the j\[azi Jackboot War Stories by Fighting Men IT is natural that the best part of Mr. George Rodger's book, RED MOON RISING (Cresset Press, i 2s. 6d.), should be the photo graphs, and this is no invidi ous comment, since he is the brilliant photographer of Life and ...

... Back Room Drama it Wr as a Question o/ i re mi tl Cake-- What a dan Oires to His Country antl What His Country Owes to Him By Barry Perowne WE get every imaginable war device submitted to us, the minister began, when his visitor was seated. Thou sands! Thousands! It's amazing, really, the number of people who think they've hit on the idea that will win the war! He paused for a moment, ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE MASTER BUILDER.-- Has any dramatist ever written a more baffling play than this? Does the keenest student of the high-brow drama know what it is driving at? Did Ibsen himself really know what he was driving at? As a tale it is comparatively simple --about a bad-tempered architect, jealous of the rising generation, with a wife depressed because her two babies had ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. Hollywood takes a rest from propa ganda speeches, Commando raids and sinister little yellow men, and gives us the lighter side of war in THE MORE THE MERRIER (Gaumont) The piece, which is an acceptable diversion for us too, is concerned with America s nome iront and wartime Washington's famous housing shortage. In the national emergency, with eight girls to every man in ...