... GJt Anthony Cookman antl Tom Titt Macbeth (A Id wye h) A REVIVAL in the very spirit of the times! All around are Planners, hard at work on society, often with disconcerting results; it was only to be expected that sooner or later they would turn their attention to the production of Shakespearian tragedy. The results are decidedly odd. The attraction of this particular tragedy for planners is ...

... I Fight to Five Roman Britain A House in the I'plandiii M Daisy Miller Elizabeth Havens I FIGHT TO LIVE, by Robert Boothby, M.P. (Gollancz; 2Is.), bears out its author's choice of a title: it is a fine fighting book. On the wrapper it is called autobiography, but actually throughout the greater part the per sonal narrative is submerged-- I Fight to Live has, rather, the build of an ...

... The Red Prussian Stranger at Home The Woman in Rlark The Royal Family in Africa rPHE Red Prussian, by Leopold Schwarzs- child (Hamish Hamilton 16s.), is a biography of Karl Marx. Marx the Man, as distinct from Marx the Legend, is [to quote the wrapper] Mr. Schwarzschild's subject. The subject has been dealt with not too kindly in fact, I can but feel that the author's aim has been more or ...

... Elizabeth Bewens ARTHUR BRYANT'S Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making was first published by the Cambridge University Press in 1933-- the tercentenary of Pepys' birth. It is the first volume of the famous Pepys trilogy, now taken over by Messrs. Collins-- the next two, The Years of Peril and The Saviour of the Navy, are to follow as soon as publishing exigencies permit. Well printed inside ...

... r\ER HIRT AUF DEM FELSEN was written in October 1828, the last year of Schubert's life. Anna Milder-Hauptmann,. a famous singer of that period, asked him to compose a song for her so that she could display her voice. A clarinet obbligato was set down as further embellishment to the voice, and it is thought that Schubert had a particular clarinet player in mind when scoring this. Be that as it ...

... QJT IAJU Comments Upon\ \Some Comedians J Anthony Cookman and Tom Titl Even today the music-hall could not afford to drop a certain tradition derived from the old fairs. Comic singers must willy-nilly appear in the company of freaks, celebrities and performing animals. The music hall audience is as freely moved by curiosity as crowds milling about the booths of a country fairground. Naturally ...

... Anthony Cook man and Flowers for the Living'''' (New Lindsey) STARK and Zola-esque are words that have been used to describe this drama of an East End slum. Though used in a complimentary sense, they may give an unduly forbidding impression of Miss Toni Block's quite remarkable talent for representing squalor faithfully yet amusingly. Things are pretty bad in the Holmes' kitchen, but the ...

... The Trains W Loved Afterglow These I Have Loved Aspects of British Art Elizabeth Betven s Last summer we had, as an exceptional number of readers will remember, a novel called Dandy Hart, which was an alluring mixture of trains and people. It was a fine romance, not without kisses, but I noted at the time a slight flaw which seemed to be due to a side-tracking of the author's most genuine ...

... At The Pictures (■la morons Legend Freda Bruee Loekliart IN our age the word glamour has taken on a cupro-nickel tone. But have we another to describe the mysterious magic which rare people shed about them as they go, the sheen on their own personalities, the spell they cast on others? If I were playing one of those paper games which used to pass the family time, and were asked to name the ...

... Elizabeth Be wens Suddenly at His Residence Land Without Heroes Lady Shane's Daughter British Wusic TALK, these days, seldom turns on reading in general without somebody introducing a fierce note either for or against the detective-story. The ensuing argument tends to run off the rails because, quite often, both parties are not talking about the same thing. Those against-- who view the reading ...

... Cbt Mountain Air Comedy GOOD humour covers a multitude of short comings, provided that the author has sufficient skill in passably natural dia logue to keep the audience basking in its warmth. This comedy of a Swiss holiday has few positive merits, but by virtue of the pleasantness with which it is acted, the be comingness of its dresses and its quite unfalt ering good humour it offers the ...

... ARTIE BAKER first came into prominence when he understudied Artie Shaw from 1940 to 1942. Later he played with Raymond Scott's band and recently he has been a soloist in the Perry Como radio programme. Now, on the first record of his Salon Swingtet to be released in Britain, he plays two of his own compositions, Platter Chatter Jump and Microphonics. The first features himself and his pianist ...