... The Lilac Domino at His Majesty's By Horace Horsnell THIS musical romance, which first saw the footlights at the Empire in 1918, is not a musical comedy, but an operetta. The distinction may not seem important to the rising generation, seeing and hearing it for the first time. Nor is the distinction important. What it amounts to is that the principal arias invite coloratura, that the concerted ...

... Uncle Harry (Garrick) By Horace Horsnell DEATH is still busy in the theatre, bumping off, or more deftly removing, characters from plays with a lethal prodigality reminiscent of the Jacobean shambles. After the Shakespearean, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Ten Little Niggers holocausts, here is another less wholesale essay in murder as a dramatic art to swell the season's casualties. It is an ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. v The HEART OF A NATION, at the newly reopened Academy Cinema, tells the story of a single French family, from the Franco-Prussian War to the beginning of this one. The family home is in Montmartre, still a country village outside the capital when the Germans are .shelling Paris in 1871. The small boy who stands in a bread queue during that first siege grows up to be a ...

... /l Murder For A Valentine at the Lyric By Horace Horsnell IN going the whole hog regardless of con sequences, woman (on the stage at any rate) leaves man a very poor starter. When cold-blooded murder invites deliberate commission, the female of the species is more deadly than the male. It was so, you remember, with the Macbeths at Glamis. And so it is with Olivia and Delia at the Comedy and ...

... If it were known when 'tis known Then 'twere well it were known quickly. WHICH might be, but almost certainly isn't the motto of the Brains Trust. Information While You Wait-- Heeding Without Tears--Joad of Joad Hall--are just a few of the improbable, if relevant. sub-titles that this popular B.B.C. feature might have had in the three years or more since its inception. This most appreciated of ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor zAllen IF I could do as much with Sixty- Three Years (Hutchinson, 18s.) as the Earl of Onslow, I should not complain. Traveller, sportsman, diplomat, he has roamed most countries between Clandon Park and the Antipodes, watched great events and their political personalities and background, as pouch cad and so forth in Madrid, Tangier, St. Petersburg, Berlin. Having ...

... MR. VAUGHAN WILKINS new novel made me long for a week's holiday in a luxurious country hotel. Not because there is anything ex hausting about it-- even its length is never wearisome-- but because it is exactly the kind of novel, rich in incident and remote in period, which seems to demand hours of pleasant and concentrated reading, interrupted at suitable intervals by the eating of large meals ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. VIRGINIA WOOLF'S talent was so much a thing by itself that it is difficult to compare her with other writers, even with those who, like James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson, are superficially akin to her. In her critical work she was a tradi tionalist, using her acute and beautiful mind in the tradi tional way. She reasoned, she reflected, she saw her subject in perspective, ...

... ONE of the best parlour games (Adults, for the use of) has always been for one member of the party to quote a passage of prose or verse and for the others to try to identify it. This is not necessarily as forbidding or as erudite a pastime as it sounds, and it is most entertaining when the players pick bits of whose derivation one is quite, quite certain-- and quite, quite wrong. For instance, ...

... THE longest and, in two senses, the heaviest book of the week is also one of the most satisfying. There are no fewer than 768 pages in THE VALLEY OF DECISION (Collins. 12s. 6d.). I don't remember how many there were in Gone With the Wind, but it cannot have been much longer than that, and this new book has been having almost comparable sales in the United States already, where it has been near ...

... THE OPENING of the SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL at STRATFORD-ON-AVON The New London Stage Productions Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE SINCE returning to theatre-going after many painful weeks in hospital through being struck down by a taxi, I have been struck also by many far more pleasant things. One is the shrewdness and general capacity of those who present, produce, etc., the majority of the large- scale ...

... Something For The Boys at the Coliseum By Horace Horsnell IT depends, of course, on the Boys. In the matter of entertainment the Services are generously, if sometimes fearfully and wonderfully, catered for. Almost everything, from full-scale stage shows to knitted body belts brightly emblazoned with mottoes, figures in the stuff to give the troops. As vice reines of the muses, Edith Evans, ...