... STORIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES --By Vernon Fane A Dramatic and Inspiring Play; An American Woman's Study of Japan; A Causerie on the Modern University A Smalltown Swashbuckler and the Thriller of the Week MR. MAXWELL ANDER SON is one of America's most distinguished playwrights, and I understand that his most recent play, THE EVE OF ST. MARK' (Bodley Head. 5s.), is now being performed in this ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SOMETHING a little different from the usual war-film has turned up in FLEMISH FARM (Leicester Square). It belongs to the semi-docu mentary school; that is to say, it tells a fictitious story. based on a real-life episode. The film begins in the summer of 1940, just before the Belgian capitulation. The last remnants of the last squadron of the Belgian Air Force are ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IT is pleasant to find in a modern novel emotions of what might be called the middle register, emotions unconnected with the main tenance of a stiff upper lip. In novels specifically about the war one hardly looks for them, and, indeed, they might be thought to be out of place. But even before the war they were rather rare in ordinary fiction. Of love we hear plenty but it ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE WAR AND PEACE (Phoenix)-- Some years ago a play was written about Oliver Crom- well which was as long as the Cromwell Road and just as dull. War and Peace (I am speaking of the play founded on Tolstoy's novel) is mostly about Napoleon, and is longer and even duller. The programme is the most formidable I have ever seen; the names of fifty-eight players are printed on it ...

... By Horace Horsnell ITar and Peace (Phainix) TOLSTOY'S War and Peace is a long story, epic in scope and quality. It has lately suffered a popular English boom. This was provoked by our general interest in Russia and by the fateful parallel between Napoleon's 1812, and the present Nazi campaigns. A radio adaptation of the book was recently broadcast; a film is projected, and a stage play was ...