... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IN order to obviate impending quarrels between husband and wife, arguments with girl friend, bets with boy friend, and letters to the film critics, I hasten to record the fact that Catherine McLeod doesn't really play the music you see her play in CONCERTO (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion). Arthur Rubinstein does, and pretty busy he is kept, too. Very early in Concerto ...

... THE jacket of READING LIKED (Hamish. Hamilton. 15s.) describes it as a prose anthology selected by Clifton Fadiman. Perhaps because Mr. Fadiman has some forthright things to say about the uselessness of blurbs, the publisher does not vouchsafe any further information than a lief of the selectedd authors Before venturing his 15s. on Mr. Fadiman's personal taste in literature, the reader ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. TO dub or not to dub, that is the question. What shall a man do who has to translate a film that has been acted in one luggage for audiences that only speak another? Shall he shoot a new sound-track to synchronise with the lip-movements of the players? Or shall he keep the original dialogue and add sub-titles? Two foreign films in London this week give you the chance to ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MANIFOLD are the ways of escaping Reality as it presents itself to the war-weary adult mind, and of these Miss Rosamond Lehmann has chosen one of the most satisfactory; she writes of children and young people, sometimes identifying her angle of vision with theirs, sometimes regarding them from outside, but with tender affection and solicitude, as a mother might. Indeed, ...

... . HOW much easier for the public if theatre critics, like schoolmasters, could fall back on the impersonal precision of the Greek alpha bet! This week Mr. Freshly scores another with his 'Adolescent Love,' at the Haywire. Such criticism leaves no room for doubt. A single letter and a double negative effectively cook Mr. Freshly's goose, and tell the public what it wants to know without ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF you have a jaded film appetite from a surfeit of vapid, machine-made nonsense, there are two films to be seen in London this week that can hardly fail to restore your faith in the cinema as an adventurous medium that has still to be fully ex plored. There is IVAN THE TERRIBLE, at the Tatler, and CHILDREN ON TRIAL, at the Academy. Ivan the Terrible is the first film ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE latest instalment of the Hornblower saga gives Mr. Forester a full opportunity to display his peculiar talent for describing battles by sea and land. A special service for the Knights of the Bath in Westminster Abbey is hardly over before Sir Horatio is given a new assignment: to suppress a mutiny. The crew of the Flame, an eighteen-gun brig, have mutinied and are ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. HENRY GREEN has established him self as a novelist with a technique and even an idiom of his own. The technique is of the streamlined kind: bare and spare and steely, his story holds to its course through a bleak, harsh landscape, rarely slowing down, still more rarely pausing, and carrying the minimum of extra weight in the way of ornament and comment. His technique is ...

... . By JOHN RUSSELL. BALLETOMANES can never be more than welcome guests at Covent Garden, and September 6, 1946, should really be con sidered to have marked the final liberation of this great theatre from the shifts and expedients of the last seven years. For when the house lights went down on that evening, and Maestro Capuano took his place in the orchestra pit, Covent Garden resumed its ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. MR. RANK'S organisation, as you may have heard, is working on a plan to make British audiences French-film-minded, by showing a selection of choice French subjects in regular programmes up and down this country. The new arrangement, it is hoped, will result in the country wide popularity of French stars and screen technique. The idea is admirable, although a few cynics, ...

... .- For the mountain lover this book will give great pleasure, for the photographer great interest, and for those who combine these two pastimes the book will be truly fascinating. Mr. Cyril Douglas Milner is both an authority on mountains and on photography and in this book he has gathered illustrations from the best work of men of many nationalities and he explains how the perfect mountain ...

... reviewing BOOKS Then and Now None Shall Know The Wolf at the Door Houses Permanence and Prefabrication Then and Note 99 ELIZABETH ROWEA AT the news, The new Somerset Maugham is historical! a number of honest faces may fall. We have in the main expected from Mr. Maugham an intense, somewhat surgical modernity-- far, far from the dream land of rapiers and ruffs. For, let us admit, to most of ...