... Scandal at Barchpster (Wyndham's) By Horace Horsnell WHY is it, I wonder, that stage versions of popular novels tend to resemble Tuesday's hash of the Sunday joint? And that the more faithful the réchauffé, the less succulent, at times, the dish? The film, we know, has a wanton touch in this matter, and can so transmogrify basic material that little but the title of the original remains to ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE SHAW REVIVALS (Lyric, Hammersmith).-- I wonder that when Shaw decided to put Shakespeare into a play, as he has in The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, he was not ruder about him. And funnier. For I imagine this little piece, which also introduces Queen Elizabeth, was to a large extent intended to be funny. I thought it rather dull, in spite of some good acting by Mr. Nigel ...

... INTRODUCING his book of essays, composed over a number of years, most of them war years, Mr. A. L. Rowse says: I am a little surprised to find how consistent and strong is the theme that runs through them: something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things, for our country side and towns, with their memories of the people who inhabited them and of the things that took place there-- ...