... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE 'THE LISBON STORY.-- A theatre's tradi tion can be a trifle dangerous. Almost ever since I have known the London Hippodrome it has been associated with light-hearted, amusing shows (though it started its career as a cinema, than which, in my opinion, no form of alleged entertainment is more depressing). The Lisbon Story, its latest production, is not in the least funny ...

... ORATORY THAT WILL LIVE FOR EVER -By Vernon Fane The Speeches of English Prime Ministers from Walpole to Churchill A Stirring Diary of Malta A Tale of Wartime France Complicated Deaths and Loves THERE is a rich treasury to be found in a book that I have only started to study this week, and that I hope to keep by me for years as a reference and refresher course in English oratory. ENGLAND IS ...

... INTERESTING FACTS AND POWERFUL FICTION --By Vernon Fane France is Still Full of Frenchmen Charles Graves, The Compleat Home Guard The Progress of Simenon Rex Stout and James M. Fox in Classic Detection and Tough Fiction DURING the past year there have been two novels written by men who have understood, loved and respected the French people, and who have been able to portray them with all their ...

... STORIES OF THE WORLD OF TO-DAY -By Vernon Fane J. B. Priestley's New Novel A Soldier's Escape from France The Artistry of Edward Seago A New Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's Architecture THERE may be many views of Mr. J. B. Priestley as a radio speaker; there can be few divergent opinions about him as a novelist. There is a school of thought which sees in him the true descendant of Dickens, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...