... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... an act of murder. Extremely painful but unusually adult Hollywood picture, concerned with the problem of mercy killing. the small voice. An out-of-the-ordinary film about a nice young couple idly contem plating divorce, who are brought to their senses by three escaped convicts at the business end of a gun. Something a little special. larceny. Slick, hard, bright Hollywood piece about an ...

... FOR nearly seventy years the issues of the Zulu wars have been clouded by one political prejudice or another, and I have never read, before this week, the account of an impartial and unbiased judge. Sir Reginald Coupland fits this description exactly, and the fact that he is one of our greatest livine historians ensures that his ZULU BATTLE PIECE-- ISANDHLWANA (Collins. 7s. 6d.) is as clear an ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE THERE IS NO ARMOUR. By Howard Spring. (Collins i 12s. 6 d.) FULL CIRCLE. By Henry Cecil. Chapman and Hall 8s. 6d.) MY GRANDFATHER. By Denis Constanduros. (Longmans 6s. 6 d.) LONDON. By Robert Henrey. (Dent 20s.) THERE IS NO ARMOUR.-- This is one of those long novels which one would not wish any shorter; which, even after 575 pages, one ...

... . By Gilbert Hackforth- Jones. Sketches by J E. Broome. (Batchworth Press 9s. Od.) People in this country, says the author, can be divided into two typts those who think the sea should be avoided (Channel Tunnellers), and those who are never happy unless they are on or near it (Islanders). This book is written exclusively for this latter group. I agree with his premise, but not his ...

... . (Book 2.) (8s. od.) This book is written -and published to help the Newspaper Press Fund and the Newsvendors Benevolent and Provident Institution. But that is not why you should buy it. Or not the only reason. For it really shows Fleet Street to the outsider, and is vastly entertaining in doing so. Almost every one of the great names of Journalism is represented here. BOOKS IN BRIEF ...