... Henry IV Part II (New) IT is generally agreed that in the Second Part of this play the Old Vic does somewhat less magnificently than it did in the First. There are miscastings which enforce severe penalties on important scenes and, perhaps because the company must have come tired to the final rehearsals, one or two easily remediable clumsinesses of stage grouping. On the first night some ot ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE UINE FEATHERS (Prince of Wales's).-- Before becoming the chief attraction in the above revue, Mr. Jack Buchanan had a most successful shot at straight comedy, appearing in a revival of Frederick Lonsdale's sophisticated The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. I should be very sorry to see the last of Mr. Buchanan. But anything less sophisti cated than Fine Feathers I have rarely seen ...

... 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 ...