... . 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. IN THE YEARS BETWEEN, Daphne du Maurier wrote for the stage something that was rather a situation for a play than a play in itself, and it was clear that any film producer who took the work over for presentation on the screen would have to fit the sketchy framework with a good deal of upholstery. Miss du Maurier's hero is a soldier M.P. who is reported killed on active ...

... . By JOHN RUSSELL. GASTON BATY'S adaptation of THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV has long been one of the classics of the modern French theatre, and now Mr. Alec Guinness' English version of this great book has been put on at the Lyric, Hammersmith. Dostoievsky's novels, though dramatic in the highest degree, are not at all theatrical. Fearful and ghastly incidents abound in them but these physical ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THEN AND NOW is an historical novel based on an incident in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli, for centuries so notorious as the author of The Prince, and the admirer of Cæsar Borgia, that his name has almost be come a synonym for the Devil. Mr. Somerset Maugham, how ever, divests him of diabolical attributes and presents him as a typical figure of the Italian Renaissance ...

... . By C. A LEJEUNE. IN the not impossible event that you feel the motion pictures could do with a change of style, personnel and scene, I strongly recom mend a new Swedish film at the Academy, called FRENZY. This is a beautifully-managed little work about an adolescent schoolboy who gets in volved, out of a chivalrous sort of pity, with a poor little trollop from a tobacconist's shop. The ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE moonlight of Mr. Joyce Cary's title is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, to music-lovers of Victorian times pre-eminently the symbol of romance. Much of his novel takes place, retro spectively, in those times when to play the Moonlight Sonata was the ambition of so many accomplished young ladies. Mr. Cary's imagina tion is steeped in symbolism perhaps he wants us to ...