... MR. RICHARD LLEWELLYN'S successor to How Green Was My Valley None But The Lonely Heart (Michael Joseph, 10s. 6d.) is not c only about Cockneys; it is written throughout in Cockney idiom. Young S Ernie Mott, a artist very near, wants to achieve Tate Gallery eminence c like his father; but his widowed ma runs a furniture shop Kingsland Road way, with shoplifting and receiving as sidelines, ...

... . Starred by iCThe Sketch *=highest value * WATCH ON THE RHINE (Aldwych). Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Athene Seyler, Margar- etta Scott. Anti-Nazis in U.S. 44 FLARE PATH (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. 44 BLITHE SPIRIT (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, Dorothy ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. NOSTALIGIA for the past is a very prevalent mood, not only among, literary men; and Mr. James Pope-Hennessy yields himself to it with melancholy and grace. His West Indian Summer is an account of the island of Trinidad seen through a temperament-- in fact, through several temperaments --and through the mists, vary ing in density, of several pasts. He himself was there in ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. YOU will have noticed an in creasing ten dency of late to make films about groups of people-- marines, A.T.S. girls, munition workers, nurses of Bataan. In the old days, it used to be considered sufficient for one beautiful girl to have one love-story in each film. Nowadays we study the emotional problems of half-a-dozen in a batch. Whether it is just reaction, or the ...

... --By Vernon Fane Victorian Influence in the West Indies An Englishman from Tokyo A Character Study of Raleigh A Fine Record of the Royal A[avy The Batsford Centenary CASHEL, in Mr. James Hope Hennessy's WEST INDIAN SUMMER (Batsford. 12s. 6d.), was aide-de-camp to the Governor of Trinidad in 1939. From the boredoms of official life he turned to a library of books written by eminent visi tors to ...

... TU By Horace Horsnell She Follows Me About (Garrick) MR. BEN TRAVERS calls his new play a comedy, and he may be right. Con noisseurs of farce, however, whom he has generously catered for in the past, need not feel snubbed on that account. After all, what's in a name, when the author of Rookery Nook. Thark, and other redoubtable riots does the christening? What was there is here. Common sense ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor -yd lien LAST year Lord Beaverbrook presided at a dinner to his former Parliamentary Secretary, Colonel Llewellin, who was then Minister of Aircraft Production. All the M.A.P. heads were there. Beaverbrook was handed a typed programme of speeches. What, he cried. Another programme from the Air Ministry? Nonsense, M.A.P. never lives up to its programmes, let's change ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE LOVE RACKET.-- I have never been so sure of anything in the theatre as that this musical comedy at the Victoria Palace will last for months and months, probably for years and years, and possibly until the war is over or even until after the next one has begun. It has been produced with competent slickness by Mr. William Mollison, the music is gay and catchy, there ...