... London-born Antony Tudor, artistic administrator of the Bal let Theatre of New York, now dancing at Covent Garden, spoke from the stage of the Scala on Sunday evening to an audience who had gathered to see a pro gramme of ballet films, presented by the London Archives of the Dance. Mr. Tudor suggested that all ballets should be filmed at the time of their creation, thereby establishing a ...

... A report of an inquiry organised by Viscount Astor and B. Seebohm Rowntree This report, as it turns out, is an attack on the National Farmers' Union and a number of other very influential bodies, including the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Council of Agriculture. The attack is on the policy, not the honesty, of those who think that the basis of agriculture in this country must ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. CITY OF DEPARTURES. By John Brophy. IN his latest novel Mr. John Brophy has had the courage to vindicate priggishness. Most of his characters have streaks of priggishness and at least two of them are snobs. Thorneycroft and Beldon, who have made their way in the world, return to Liverpool, their home town-- the one from London, where the flying bombs ...

... TWO good reprints figure in this week's list of books: the first, RAFFLES OF SINGA PORE (Collins. 7s, 6d.), which was written and published some years ago, but is well worth acquiring in its revised edition. Sir Reginald Coupland, who is Beit Professor of Colonial His tory at Oxford, is a superb biographer, as witness his Wilberforce, and this life of the founder of Singapore is not only an ...

... IF most of us were asked about the poems of Fran çois Villon we would assume, and quite properly, some know ledge of them, would place him as a French poet of the fifteenth century, and might even mur mur something about Oû sont les neiges d'antan? We might also refer to the lines written on a wish II 1 were tvmg and remember a good musical play on that theme which has been popular for the ...

... WHAT, in the space of a brief review, can one do with a study of one of the greatest of historians by so distinguished a contemporary historian as Bishop Mathew? That ACTON: THE FORMATIVE YEARS (Eyre and Spottiswoode. ios. 6d.) has all the qualities of a first-rate biography can be noted and appreciated on purely literary grounds. The esoterics of the historian are another thing, and, ...

... I DON'T see why the publishers should feel it necessary to apologise for the slight Ameri can bias of Captain Harry Butcher's THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER (Heinemann. 21s.). Captain Butcher was General Eisenhower's naval aide during the time he was in supreme command of the greatest military operation in the world's history. Being the great man he is, General Eisenhower quickly realised that ...

... MR. FRANCIS WILLIAMS' PRESS, PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) is a book on a subject which is under active discus sion in Government circles at the present moment. In his position as Controller of News and Censorship at the Ministry of Information, and sub sequently as Chief Press Officer to the British Delegation at San Francisco, Mr. Williams is in a unique position to take his ...

... The Stage: Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE KINGMAKER (St. James's).-- Nearly four hours is a bit long for a history lesson, for that is what this beautifully-produced play really amounts to. But the fifteenth century was an inter esting period, and even war seems to have been picturesque in those days, though the politics were as sordid as we ourselves know them. The Earl of Warwick did his king- ...

... (Leaflet No. 117, Ministry of Agriculture, Stormont, Belfast). Very large quan tities of seed potatoes are now being grown in Northern Ireland and an even greater demand is expected when seed can be certified as being free from eelworm. This leaflet has some remarkably good pictures of eelworm cysts on potato roots taken by the Long Ashton Research Station at Bristol. The eelworm pest develops ...

... . inis nuge tract or central Am nca is indeed unknown had it een better known, Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer surely would never have attempted to cross it from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean ,vith only £20 as his whole fortune. As a result of this trip many ani tals, etc., hitherto unknown to sci nee, will be seen bearing Mr. Palmer's name in the British and >ther museums. It was a one-man colect- ...

... Golden Eagle (Westminster) THE new play is pleasing alike to eye and ear. Costumes designed by Mr. Gower Parks divide the stage into delightful patterns of black and gold, swarthy green, pearl white, and ruby-hearted crimson. To the movement of these colours Mr. Robert Atkins's production imparts a slow grace. The dialogue of Mr. Clifford Bax has leisurely elegance and the incidental music of ...