... A Foreign Correspondent at Large The Eagle Squadron of the R.A.F. The Lives of William and Mary Bonaparte and the Modern Parallel By Vernon Fane THERE is a genus of news paper-men called foreign correspondents who have, in the last ten years, reached a peculiar eminence of their own. Of these, one of the best known is Mr. Vincent Sheean, whose reputation is of an early 1930's vintage, and ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE PANAMA HATTIE.-- Rarely have I heard such witless dialogue as there is in this Cole Porter musical at the Piccadilly; every one was talking through his, or her, Panama hattie, and most of them seemed to need a microphone (and in one case a megaphone as well) in order to enable them to do it. Cole Porter's tunes are well below his usual level; indeed, the only music ...

... THE BEST BOOKS OF THE WEEK -Bv Vernon Fane M lie. Curie as a War Correspondent Biographical Essays of Two Saints The Story of a Bomber Pilot The Fate of the Islanders of Bonin MLLE. EVE CURIE, besides being the biographer of her great mother, is a war corre spondent of no mean ability. Her JOURNEY AMONG WAR RIORS (Heinemann. 15s.) is a brilliantly written journal of her experiences during 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 ...

... 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 ...