... l^^'-w HISTORY will have a place for the home front as well as battle-front chronicler. I can see posterity turning to Mr. James Wedgwood Draw- bell's All Change Here (Hutchinson, 10s. 6d.) to know what we did, thought, and talked about through these anxious days of war, for he is a lively, alert Pepys of journalism, netting the pass ing moment with the whoop of a boy after a butter fly. ...

... TU By Horace Horsnell An Ideal Husband (Westminster) MR. ROBERT DONAT'S first season as a theatre manager opened very auspici ously. His inaugural production not only promises well, but should pleasantly sur prise playgoers who may have carelessly assumed that Oscar Wilde was a one-play dramatist-- The Importance of Being Earnest first, and the rest nowhere. It re-establishes An Ideal Husband ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE TEN LITTLE NIGGERS.-- I would not say that this stage version, at the St. James's, of Agatha Christie's famous thriller thrills to any great extent. The whole idea-- a homicidal maniac invites ten guests to stay with him on a small island so that he can bump them off, one by one, more or less on the lines of the nursery rhyme-- is so utterly preposterous. Another ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. JAMES AGATE claims to be the only ex-novelist who has rewritten his first book. He goes on: I am an ex novelist, and through sheer artistic integrity. When my third and last work of so- called fiction appeared in 1928 I had become enough of a critic to know that this was not novel-writing, but thinly- disguised autobiography. I stopped because my critical sense ...

... Reviewed by Trevor Allen DO you know Athens in spring, when the nightingales sing under the stars? The magic of Theocritus is in the air, and the bees draw honey from the moonlight. So muses M. Andre Michalopoulos, crossing the Zappeion Gardens, under eucalyptus trees and cypresses, to broadcast to England a few nights before the Germans marched in and he sailed for Crete in a yacht which ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I HAVE been guilty myself, when driven to it by dons and other professorial types, of asserting that the motion- picture camera is the greatest his torian of our times --but then I wasn't thinking of films like FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Oup children and grandchildren, dropping into some repertory cinema of the future and happening on a revival of this 1943 classic, will ...