... 44 Whispering: Ilill 44 Blood Money 44 British Hospitals 44 The Bedside Shakespeare Elizabeth Betvens WHETHER in drama or fiction, one theme never seems to exhaust itself-- the pos sessive mother! One must, I fear, take it that this lady is no less operative in real life-- why else should her wiles be followed, by suc cessions of audiences, by thousands of readers, with such fascinated, almost ...

... (bfr People Like Us (Wyndham 's) Anthony Cooknian PLAYWRIGHTS who take their facts from a cause célèbre are in danger, unless they happen to be Shakespeares, of getting ab sorbed in a rather sedative job of work. Intent on arranging the facts into a plausible stage story they are likely at critical moments to let their imaginations doze; and however skilfully they manage the facts the lack in ...