... (bfr Castle Anna (Lyric, Hammersmith) Burlesque Princes Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt THE theatre cannot be said to open its arms to distinguished novelists. At their approach it is apt to put on a closed shop stare and to growl out something about the need for a period of apprenticeship. Thus, unhappily, it stares, and thus it growls at Miss Elizabeth Bowen. This novelist's proved gifts-- ...

... THOUGH styles in the performance of music may change, genuine artistry and showmanship must always count, and in this country we have one singer who, in his own particular line, is still in the top class. His name is Sam Browne, and he has been making gramophone records since 1922. To-day he can show anyone who may doubt his capabilities that he has a long way to go yet. To prove this, listen ...

... (JM Four, Five, Six! (Duke of York's) Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt BETWEEN One, Two, Three!, a revue so good in parts that it settled into a com fortable run, and Four, Five, Six! there is little to choose. That is surprising as well as gratifying, for the goodness of the first edition was largely the affair of Miss Binnie Hale and Mr. Sonnie Hale, and only a week before the second was due ...

... Elizabeth Hewens Mariner Dances San-Sou-Ci Our Dog's Victorian Tales for flirls I REMEMBER talking, a week or two ago, about a group of younger British novelists who keep one still optimistic as to the future of the novel. That week I instanced Howard Clewes-- now let us consider P. H. Newby, whose third book comes to us. It is Mariner Dances (Cape; 9 s.). Mr. Newby's preceding novels-- ...

... RECORD DF THE WEEK SOME two years ago Atlantis, composed by Stanelli, was given a concert per formance at the Cambridge Theatre with the composer conducting. Now it appears on a record for the first time played in grand style by Sidney Torch and his Orchestra. Stanelli has always wished to be accepted as a serious musician, and this work shows clearly that his ambition should not now be very ...

... (bfc Carissima Palace Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt IN the light musical theatre we are, according to revue writers, the friends of every country but our own. A joke must have a foreign trade mark before we are amused by it; no Robinson or Brown can hope to be recognized by us as a musician; and on our seemingly endless enthusiasm for Oklahoma! and Annie, Get Your Gun the American export drive ...

... By C. A. Lejeune LADY FROM SHANGHAI.-- A new Orson Welles picture, after all these years, ought to be a major event in the London cinema; but this one just isn't. Principal reasons: it deals ex clusively with unlikeable and improbable people; the plot is confused; and Mr. Welles, who tells the story in the first person, elects to speak in a soft, swift Irish brogue which, though charming in ...

... AT a moment when the fate of the British film industry hangs perilously in the balance; when its conduct, direction and prestige is a matter for the gravest consideration, I am going to choose for scrutiny not the best picture on show in London, but one of the worst; and I am choosing it quite deliberately as an Awful Example. A new British company has introduced to the astonished customers ...

... THE Brigadier Gerard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories was a fantastic and yet credible creature, slightly larger than life-size, and the hero of a thousand exploits, related and unrelated, or so we used to feel in the young and happy days when we were reading about him. It is I possible, we now hear, that this magnificent and flamboyant creature had a prototype in real life, and that he was ...

... THE memoir that his daughter has written about the great journalist, J. L. GARVIN (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.). is illuminating and tender. Miss Katharine Garvin has concen trated on the personal side of his life, and left his services to journalism and to the politi cal scene for another hand to delineate. tier dook nas Deen written essentially from her own memories of him as the father of young ...

... BERNARD MILES SURVEYS THE BRITISH THEATRE An Appeal for Cheaper Seats and Less Commercialism Bernard Miles has won a foremost place in British films, and in Great Expectations and Fame is the Spur he revealed himself to tens of thousands as a first-class character actor. Despite these screen successes, however, Mr. Miles is really a man of the theatre; we must make no mistake about that. ...

... CUt Remember Mama (Aldwycli) The Shoemaker's Holiday (O.U.D.S.) IT is hard to forgive Mr. Van Druten. He has put all his professional cunning at the service of a little story which plays unscrupulously on our most sacred emotions. We are asked to remember Mama-- and to grow weepsy as our enchanted memories of childhood reveal her unfailing goodness. It is Mama as we should remember her if ...