... By Horace Horsnell This Time It's Love (Comedy) ON the theatre bill of fare, love is to l'amour rather what roast beef is to bœuf à la mode. They have indeed such different connotations that, knowing this comedy to be an adaptation from the French, we are not tempted to take its title too literally. The original was written by Louis Verneuil, and its cool craftsmanship, freedom from ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . 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 ...