... : 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 ...

... By Horace Horsnell Panama Hattie (Piccadilly) LIKE ancient Gaul, this modern American hullabaloo is divided into three parts: music, spectacle, and comedy; and in that respect it is traditional. The placing of these three elements, however, is as follows: comedy (highly knockabout) first, Mr. Cole Porter's music second, spectacle a good wartime third. Such plot as there is gets in a word or ...

... 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 ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. BETTE DAVIS'S directors are said to have said that for Bette to get going at her best she needs to play an intelligent female who is either wrong on wronged, against a background of earthquake, upper-class murder, or historical crisis. Personally, I like my Bette wrong and hopping mad a cross between Jezebel, Mildred of Human Bondage and Regina of The Little Foxes which may ...

... . Starred by The 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 44 (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. BLITHE SPIRIT 44 (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. 44 PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX 44 (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, ...