... Keep Going (Palace) By Horace Horsnell WHEN Pallas Athene sprang full-armed from the brain of Zeus, she gave an example of monogenesis which revues, with rare exceptions, have been chary of following. The purveyors of such entertain ment would seem to favour the safety in numbers watchword, rather than the too many cooks alternative At any rate, the average modern revue is apt to be a ...

... Mine Hostess (Arts) By Horace Horsnell ART, some say, has no frontiers. Yet there are times when one feels that it has as many as there are nations and languages to define them. Music, painting and the mimetic arts may be frontier-free, but not literature, or the spoken art of the theatre, when ignorance of the language entails translation. At any rate, one left that the virtues of this ...

... Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary (Duke of York's) By Horace Horsnell THE question is rhetorical, and only a bear with a sore head would think of answer ing it seriously. Honeymoons in farce have a special licence. When the happy couple have weathered the confetti and are well started on their wild adventure, they are lucky if nothing more disreputable than an old shoe accompanies them. And ...

... ''Bird In Hand (Arts) By Horace Horsnel] KIND hearts, sang the poet somewhat optimistically, are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. In this rural comedy John Drinkwater, poet and author of Abraham Lincoln, endorses that sentiment in the good old-fashioned way by suiting fact to fiction, making a country inn keeper's lovely daughter and the romantic young heir of a local ...

... Macbeth (Lyric, Hammersmith) By Horace Horsnell MR. ROBERT ATKINS, whose Bankside Players have brought Macbeth on a short visit to the Hammersmith Lyric, must know more about ways and means of staging Shakespeare than almost any man since Shakespeare himself. He has presented him in the open air, in the boxing-ring, on modern and pseudo-Elizabethan stages, and in the theatre of his imagination ...