... (Mr tfcu A New Stratford Festival Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt COMPLAINT has been made that Stratford should have opened its summer-long festival with King John-- a history which readers excusably find tedious. Sir Barry Jackson, whose directorship regrettably ends with the new season, in this matter, as in some other, knows better than his critics what purposes the festival should serve. It ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE QUENCH THE MOON. By Walter Macken. (Macmillan 10s. 6 d.) THE FOUNDLING. By Georgette Heyer. (Heinemann 10s. 6 d.) MAN RUNNING. By Selwyn Jepson. (Macdonald 9s. 6 d.) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM MORRIS. By Esther Meynell. Chapman and Hall 15s.) QUENCH THE MOON.-- I never start reading a new novel of Irish life without a certain excitement, for so ...

... ONE of the most revealing aspects of THE GOEBBELS DIARIES (Hamish Hamilton. 218) is the proof that it gives, proof substantiated by Mr. Trevor-Roper's now classic Last Days of Hitler, that, from the moment of his rise to power to the day when he died in the Berlin bunker, Hitler was the Number One man of his party and of the country, and that not even the most jealous and ambitious of the men ...

... At Tlie Pictures Tlie True Glamour Frnla Bruce Lorkliart ONE film's wit this week makes all the rest seem still more crude and silly than perhaps they are; one star's radiance turns all others into pale or painted puppets. The film is the eight- year-old Ninotchka, revived at last-- now that the Russians have made themselves ridiculous enough to become again a legitimate laughing-stock from ...

... Elizabeth llmvens Paris Herself Again Something? Sweet, Something: Terrible The Military Orchid A Puzzle for Pilgrims GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA'S Paris Herself Again comes back again, itself, most happily. We owe the reappearance of this period piece-- which a repetition of history makes, all the same, contemporary-- to the Golden Galley Press. It is given a dashing format, the 1878-79 Sala ...