... . By JOHN RUSSELL. GLYNDEBOURNE has reopened with Mr. Ben jamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia; and it should be said at once that this opera, which plays on a stage hitherto reserved for Mozart and Verdi, succeeds by the highest standards in saying something which has never been said in opera before. Its physical resources are tiny; they are those, in fact, of Purcell's Dido and Æneas, or of ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IN Mr. Priestley's new novel the bright day that brought forth the adder was the narrator's youth, his youth which came abruptly to an end in August 1914; and among the bright days stands out one hot, sun shiny Sunday when Gregory Dawson joined the Alington family for an ill-fated picnic on Pikeley Scar. Ever since he first saw them in a train, talking together rather ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE Marx Brothers, of whose glorious and unique nonsense the screen has been deprived for five years, are back again in A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA (London Pavilion). This is good news. I wish I could couple it with the still better news that their night in Casablanca is as satisfactory as their splendid Night at the Opera, or their historic Day at the Races. There are moments ...