... IT has been announced that book publishers are to receive an extra 15 per cent. on their paper ration, which brings their allocation up to 65 per cent. of their pre-war con sumption. That does not mean that the famine in the book-shops and in the libraries will be relieved, since the pub lishers have been requested by the Government to use the extra allocation for export. How far this dole ...

... A Bell For Adano (Phoenix) THE church bell of the Sicilian village of Adano has made a great noise in the world. Novel readers, film-goers, theatrical audiences, all know the triumphant chime which symbolizes a community's well- being, and now if you happen to be passing the Phoenix Theatre at the right moment you will hear it echoing grandly along the Charing Cross Road. It brings down the ...

... Fine Feathers (Prince of Wales) ECONOMY is doing without something you want in case you may some day want something which you probably won't get. The man who said that lived at a time when there was some choice in the matter: you could, if you wished, choose not to be ruined; and the taking thing about Mr. Robert Nesbitt's new revue is the brave pretence it makes that we live in a world where ...