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... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen IN common with most thinkers from Biblical times onwards, Mr. John Brophy is perplexed by the dual nature of mankind, body and mind, and the sustained warfare between the two. In Body and Soul (Harrap, 15s.) he manfully, solemnly tackles the problem with wide knowledge, apt quotation. His approach to the bold nudes by artists classic and modern which illustrate ...
... LEAR, KING OF NONSENSE A New Collection of the Celebrated Rhymes, and Other Books Briefly Reviewed The cry of the Nupiter Piffkin, the call of the Biscuit Buffalo, the Fimble Fowl with a corkscrew leg (see Verse IV of the Quangle Wangle's Hat), the Pobble with no toes, the AkancT of Swat (Did he sleep on a mattress, a bed or a cot?), not forgetting, of course, the Jumblies and the Yonghy ...
... IF the reader can once con vince himself of the existence, or even the proba bility, of the lovely Mira, her highly-strung husband Ralph, and the stolid lover Martin, then he will be in a fair way to appreciating Mr. Claude Houghton's new novel. THE QUARREL (Collins. 8s. 6d.). For myself, I found them a little stiff and at the same time wraithlike not responding to the ordinary stimuli of life ...
... THIS has been a Christmas of Many Happy Returns. I shall think of it as the year of the Uncle and Aunt. The Uncle is at the Princes, where Babes in the Wood, the more roystering of Central London's panto mimes, is crackling like a bonfire. There is everything here except a harlequinade, but other joys dim before the Wicked Uncle of Eddie Gray, a Baron with a trick of juggling away the hours ...
... By C. A. Lejeune MONSIEUR ALIBI.-- A deft, suave, deceptively wide-eyed little comedy about a master swindler who hires a double to provide him with an alibi, and then finds that the double, although a bumpkin, is more successful as a lover than he is. Or is he? The film ends on an intriguing question mark, and is superbly carried by Louis Jouvet in five distinct characterisations. â– k* la ...
... 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 ...
... Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE THREE JOLLY GENTLEMEN. By Louis Golding. Hutchinson 9s. 6 d.) THE WAYWARD BUS. By John Stein beck. Heinemanr 9s. 6 d.) THE QUARREL. By Claude Houghton. Collins 8s. 6 d.) SHUTTLE. By Hermon Ould. Dakers 15s.) THREE JOLLY GENTLEMEN.-- Mr. Louis Golding's crisp and intriguing title might well be applied to the authors of my first three books, for all of ...
... By John Courtenay MACBETH (Aldwych) will be remembered for production rather than performance. Michael Redgrave, in Shakespeare's most testing part, takes the dark path from Inverness to Forres and Dunsinane with sustained vigour, but without a flash of poetry. Poetry is lacking, too, in Clement McCallin's Macduff. He and Mr. Redgrave make a fierce thing of the last fight to the death, but ...
... By Collie Knox KIPLING would have approved of Bonnie Prince David. Not only has he filled the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, but has done it at sixty miles an hour. The minute has proved very forgiving. Anyone would forgive David Niven anything; even his success. He is as unexpected as the warrior who-- no one yet knows why-- slew a lion in a pit on a snowy day ...
... ALL the discussions, the pros and cons and the endless talk that have surrounded and often further obscured the philosophy of Existentialism, can in a sense be disregarded when one is reading a novel by the chief exponent of that philosophy. Or, if not dis regarded, at least relegated to the background while the less complicated business of reading and enjoying the story itself goes on. M. ...
... NORTHWARD HO! The March of the Pioneers in Canada's Arctic Territories Go West, young man, declared Horace Greeley from his New York editofial offices. There is your hinterland, cried Rhodes as he gazed northwards to Central Africa from the Cape. Both men were realists with a touch of vision; both men were right in giving an impetus to the pioneering trends of the nineteenth century a spur ...