... By Horace Horsnell Halfway to Heaven (Princes) I AM not on very easy terms with the super natural. Professors of the black arts would regard me as an outsider. Even amateur fortune-tellers look at me askance, and palm ists snub, when I inquire sympathetically into the craft of the arts they practise. So that although I approached them with friendly curiosity and an open mind, perhaps I am not ...

... 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 ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE TT//S TIME IT'S LOVE (Comedy).-- How that amusing Frenchman, Louis Verneuil, ever came to write a quarter of a centurv ago so dull a plav as this, and whv two clever English people have taken the trouble to translate it, I find a bit of a mystery. The translation is a more than impossible job of work, and that is why, coupled with some excellent acting the evening was ...

... -By Vernon Fane Lion Feuchtwanger 's Story of Nazi Germany Ach-ack and a Kentish Village Murder in Pre-war Austria The Ingredients of a Chinese Puzzle THE new Feuchtwanger novel evokes this author's usual atmosphere of ugly splendour and macabre Gothic intrigue. It is a melodrama of Nazi Germany before this war, and tells the story of two men who are shown as having a dubious influence over ...

... By Horace Horsnell There Shall Be No Night (Aldtvych) ALFRED LUNT and Lynn Fontanne are such agreeable and accomplished actors that we should welcome almost any play they chose to bring to us. We like them both for what they do and the way they do it. Their acting is so skilful and studied an art that it might be described as inspired methodism. Their technical equipment includes (but is by no ...

... . 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 ...

... . Starred by The Sketch. highest value. FLARE PATH (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. 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 Hyson, David Home. 44 THE DANCING YEARS (Adelphi). Ivor Novello in his romantic musical play, with Muriel Barron and Roma ...

... 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 ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WHEN Julien Duvivier made Un Carnet de Bal all those years ago in France, I'm afraid he started something he is going to find it very hard to finish --if he ever manages to finish it at all. For the success of Carnet impressed Hollywood with the notion that all Duvivier films ought to be made on the Carnet model that is to say, a series of short episodes, each with its ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. ST. TERESA OF AVILA and St. Thérèse, respec tively the Eagle and the Dove of Miss Sackville- West's title, make a vivid contrast; and the fact that they had certain things in common-- were both Carmelites, both saints and both named Teresa --only serves to make the contrast sharper. The .stamp of size is on everything that St. Teresa did and stood for. The patron saint of ...

... A Gripping Murder Story by Joseph Shearing Back Room Scientists Family Characterisation by Miss Barbara Goolden An Englishman in South America A Vivid Historical FJovcl -By Vernon Fane WHAT an extraordinarily good craftsman Mr. Joseph Shearing is, and how confidently-- and eagerly-- one opens each of his new books, each imaginative reconstruction of a crime that happened once, and of which ...

... 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. ...