... At The Theatre Miss Mabel (lluclicss) Anllioiir fookmnn IF we did not know better we should be tempted to speak of Mr. R. C. SherrifF's new play as a delightful instance of beginner's luck. Every thing falls in remarkably well with everything else, apparently by a series of happy accidents. This impression has in fact needed a great deal of care and cunning to create, but there it is. Mr. ...

... ROPE THERE has been so much talk about the new Hitchcock technique in film-making-- the uninterrupted action, the wild walls, the elimination of time lapses, and the celebrated nine-minute take-- that I fancy people will be quite surprised by the apparent orthodoxy of Rope, the first film to be made wholly under this new system. The success of Hitchcock's new technique lies, you might ...

... call northside 777. One of the best in the current American school of factual stories filmed against actual backgrounds. The case of a Chicago Pole who was convicted of the murder of a policeman in 1932, and cleared thirteen years later through the efforts of his mother and an obstinate newspaper reporter. red river. A tremendous Western, genuine to the core, about the first great cattle ...

... m By Rupert Croft -Cooke \j|j A REVIEWER may be able to persuade himself that he knows a good bookni when he sees one, but to suppose that he can judge what will please that most exigent public, the population of the nursery and schoolroom, would be presumptuous in deed. So once again I have left judgment to the only critics worth hearing on children's books-- the children themselves, and ...

... A s sometimes happens, of the many records xTLof orchestral music that have been issued during the past year there is one that stands out above all others. It is of two pieces of music by Wolf-Ferrari. The first the Overture to II Segreto Di Susanna the second Inter mezzo from I Qualtro Rusteghi. This music is played by the Symphony Orchestra of The Augusteo in Rome, conducted by Victor de ...

... THE remarkable thing about Mr. Evan John's novel THE NETWORK (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) is that so much of it is true. Any reader of White Papers will remember that Report of the Royal Commis sion on the spy trial in Canada a couple of years ago. And even: those who didn't study tne Keport may rememDer many of the revelations. Ordinary men and women (one might have been forgiven for calling them ...

... Thomas Love Peacock, whose life spanned the Regency and early Victorian periods, holds a unique place among English novelists. His seven novels, cast largely in the form of dialogue, are brilliant political satires, and, even if half the allusions are lost upon the modern world, he remains wonderful value. Neither Chekov nor Frank Capra, it may be ventured, have ever assembled together a more ...

... Elizabeth Havens Concluding Round the Year with Lady Addle Cigarette Card Cavalcade The Rape of Lucretia LAST week the children had it; and one or two last-minute children's books may, I hope, be a pendant to next week's page. Meanwhile, with Christmas approaching, there is the grown-up, donor or recipient, to be thought of. The book destined to be a Christ mas present should, I feel, have ...