... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE WAY AHEAD (at the Odeon, Leicester Square), directed by Carol Reed, starring David Niven, and very ably written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov -- all Army men--is a superb and authoritative account of the training of a bunch of civilians into invasion soldiers. It recounts the experiences of an infantry platoon from their call-up to the day they go into action. It ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. CRICKET COUNTRY is ostensibly a book about cricket, written by Mr. Blunden at the sug gestion of a friend; but it is much more than that. I have regarded myself, he says, as given a roving commission but I ven ture to hope that I have fol lowed a continuous, even if a winding and sometimes tangled path. The path starts in the writer's infancy, for he was bred to ...

... The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Savoy) By Horace Horsnell FEW dramatists, I imagine, are tempted to fall into the sin of self-complacency when Mr. Tyrone Guthrie is producing them. His reverence even for the classics, when he has them on the tapis, can stop well short of idolatry. His respect for tradition is never slavish. He is nothing if not inventive, and ideas swarm in his fertile brain as ...

... MR. BERT THOMAS once published a charming little book of drawings, osten sibly made by a child, of famous contemporary figures, whom he divided into the nice and the nasty people. Pro minent in the first category was M. Maisky, who was described, as best I can remember, as a man who twinkled and smiled, and liked to see everyone enjoying themselves. There is little in the first volume of M. ...