... At The Theatre Anthony t'ookmaii The Kil From Stratford*' (Prin ccs) WRITERS of musical comedy have hitherto turned a blind eye to the mute solicitings of the Shakespeare cult at Stratford-upon-Avon. The Bard's birthplace growing bigger and better with the years-- the procession of silk-hatted dignitaries carrying daffodils and cowslips on the Birthday-- the breaking by ambassadors of the ...

... Elizabeth Hewetis Miss Josephine and the Colonel The Washbournes of Oiterley A .Second Ilook of Russian Verse Green Shiver ORIEL MALET is a young writer who, while still in her teens, made a happy start, and who remains worth watching upon her way. Two novels-- Trust in the Springtime and My Bird Sings-- were followed by Marjory Fleming, biography of Pet Marjory, that Scottish genius ...

... By Alan Melville IF ever you have the good fortune to be invited for a week-end at the Emlyn Williams country seat (and you should stop at nothing, short of blackmail, to secure such an invitation) you will find only two minor items on the debit side of the Week-end balance-sheet. (1) You will be forced to play a great many sets of tennis against Mr. Williams, who-- though by no stretch of the ...

... BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE 7HEN a producer of Sir Alexander Korda's standing and accomplishments takes as his subject one of the most romantic adventures in British history, and manages to make out of it a picture that hardly for a moment stirs the blood nor quickens the imagination, it seems to me that he can be congratulated on quite a remarkable achievement. The real story id the legend of the ...

... MR. PRIESTLEY, at the Cambridge, is on what the poet called a far-off isle in the tropic seas. He is also in dead earnest. His leading figure is the administrator of Corabana under Unuto, and Unuto is the United Nations Undeveloped Territories Organisation and behaves like it. When Mr. Priestley gets such a theme as this-- is Unuto good for Corabana or isn't it?-- he will talk through the ...

... Irving Stones SAILOR ON HORSEBACK, that truly brilliant life of Jack London, now appears in a second, most welcome edition (The Bodley Head. 10s. 6d.). This is a biography that deserves to live, and surely will do so, because the author and his hero are so completely in tune. It is obvious that Irving Stone has known something of the same kind of life as Jack London did at the turn of the ...

... At The Theatre Home Is To-morrow (Cambridge) Antlionr Cookman MR. PRIESTLEY is the H. G. Wells of the theatre. His admirers want him to go on writing about people. Perversely, to their thinking, he fixes his eye on peoples. Wells left the recognizable human world of Mr. Lewisham, Uncle Ponderevo and Mr. Polly for the arid mind (which he called a world) of William Clissold. Mr. Priestley, ...

... At The Pictures Songs of the Rope Freda Bruce Lockliart HITCHCOCK'S much-heralded and technically revolutionary Rope (Carlton) and Have- lock-Allan's gentler The Small Voice (Plaza) have a number of points in common. Both, for a start, are excellently entertaining pictures. Both give opportunities to young players who rise to them Joan Chandler in Rope James Donald and Harold Keel (late of ...

... Elizabeth Hewens The Conspirator Maidens' Trip Taken at the Flood The Best of Beardsley THE CONSPIRATOR, a novel by Humphrey Slater (John Lehmann; 8s. 6d.), is described on its wrapper as having a new and startling theme. This is no over statement: we are to deal, in fact, with the fortunes, marriage and general outlook of Major Desmond Ferneaux-Lightfoot, Grenadier Guards, who is ...

... (fcfa IT is indeed autumn with the Old Vic: its laurels, won so magnificently but a short while since, are falling fast. The season opened with a travesty of Twelfth Might which was at best amusing, continued with a Dr. Faustus which disastrously reduced the mighty line of Marlowe to flat prose and now, in The Way of the World, contrives to floodlight the admitted weakness of Congreve's ...

... At The Pictures It u sin e ii s Holiday Fmlii Bruce Lorkliari TOO often, to comment that a comedy must have been enormous fun to make suggests that it is much less fun to see. I can imagine how Burgess Meredith, co-producer and star, and directors King Vidor and Leslie Fenton enjoyed making On Our Merry Way (London Pavilion). They and Dorothy Lamour, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and Paulette ...

... Audrey Lucas's Ego 9 The Case of Mr.. Crump Byron The Bark Wheel THE scene is a bar at Cannes during the Film Festival of 1946. An unpleasantness has started among the customers somebody saying that any Frenchman who allowed himself to submit to Buchenwald was un liche. This was violently resented by two ex-Buchenwalders. Things were beginning to look ugly, when the barman rapped on the ...