... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I DON'T know what the form is in other European countries or in Latin America, but in English-speaking and reading countries it is usually a sure bet that a reasonably good novel, or a fairly authentic book of memoirs about a doctor, or medical life in general, will sell well. Many of them have been spectacular best-sellers and not always on sheer literary merit. The human case-book type of ...

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... THIS week introduces a new author-- or one, at least, who is new to me and who is a very happy find. Mr. John Prebble's short novel WHERE THE SEA BREAKS (Seeker and Warburg. 6s.) is not faultless; it is not even very convincing as far as its theme goes, but it is the work of a man who can write as distinct from the work of a man who has learned to sling words together acceptably. His theme is ...

... 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 ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE IS YOUR HONEYMOON REALLY NECES SARY? (Duke of York's).-- The flying bombs, contrary to rumour, have not knocked the London theatre into temporary nothingness. It is true that only a small number of theatres remain open; but these are doing good business, and that number is being increased by a few new pro ductions, one of which is a smashing winner and is gathering in ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. TIMELY is the word for THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (Em pire). There are other words for it. Sentimental is one of them. But timely is pro bably the fairest. The White Cliffs is one of the first films to make a deliberate, conscientious and, on the whole, successful attempt to explain the British people to the Americans, and the Americans to the British. Now that seems ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IN 1873 Sir Ian Hamilton sailed to India to join the Gordon Highlanders. He was then twenty, and India remained his headquarters until 1898, when he was appointed Commandant to the School of Musketry at Hythe. It was Kipling's India, and Sir Ian, who was himself drawn to a literary career, has some interesting things to tell us about Kipling, whose early short story The ...

... -. By L. P. HARTLEY. BROOKE WHITTAKER'S father was a new-comer to the aristocracy of Hollywood, but she was its bright particular star and sufficiently sure of herself to keep that very eligible bache lor, Bob Warren, on a string. The fact that war had broken out in Europe as yet made little difference to her round of pleasures, but she had a serious side, and when some people in her set held ...

... 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 ...