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... at tfe- Love in Albania*' (Si. James's) Aniliony Cooknian ANOTHER of the inconsequent plays, now very much in fashion, which abound in extravagant, amusing situations, pro duce every five minutes or so a really witty line and leave you in the end wondering what it has all been about. Mr. Eric Linklater (who, as the author, is entitled to his opinion) may know better, but his play, I am ...
... Elizabeth llewetis The Moment of Truth Condemned to Life Green Grow the Rushes The Rose and the Star SOME of us are so lucky-- even in these times, --as to manage to slip through life without any showdown. Or should it be called show-up? No single excoriating crisis forces the lucky one to dredge his soul to the depths, to examine his sense of values, or to his or her own meaning, as an ...
... Elizabeth Bowen SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S A Writer's Notebook (Heinemann; 12s. 6 d.) is for everyone. For the writer, its value is obvious-- Mr. Maugham is known in literary ranks as being consistently generous to his own kind, and the publication of these jottings of his is, for his fellow-authors, a crowning good act. At the same time, there is nothing esoteric about the Notebook: from the point of ...
... At The Theatre Harvey (Prince of Wales) Ant Iionr (ookmaii THIS comic fantasy, which has run for four years in New York and may well make a long stay here, is a badly constructed play. To stress the point would be absurdly pedantic if the technical shortcomings did not affect the quality of our enjoyment. In fact they do. We laugh a great deal, but it is the fatiguing sort of laughter, the ...
... Book Reviews Elizabeth Botvens Europe Without ltiiedcher Goorerinu I.ariy Elcgrieix for the Den ...
... Book Reviews Aollekens and His Times The People Opposite Handle in Springtime Wisteria t'ottagre Chinese Kseapade NOLLEKENS AND HIS TIMES may, I should suggest, be the world's most devastating biography: if it has, as to this particular, runners-up, I should like to meet them. The work is the product of the master-pupil relation ship, with all the chances of scrutiny from the junior side, ...
... at AiiMmhiv Cookniaii Saure Tarlarc (Cambridge) IT is not of sauces, piquant nor plain, that this admirable revue reminds me, but of the equally important 6.15 prelimi naries. Some people try to forget the carking cares of the day by rapidly lowering the drink which they call a snifter, a Dynamite Dewdrop or whatever it may be. Others are of the opinion that something long, cool and ...
... (Lb tfe, Death Of A Salesman (Phoenix) THIS is the day of the little man. The puppet chosen by the dramatist for in exorable doom wears a greasy trilby in place of a crown and no noble mind is here o'erthrown. Instead a shoddy little brain cracks from an overdose of slogans. This is the way the world ends, says Mr. T. S. Eliot, not with a bang, but a whimper. Yet if the impact of a play ...
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... : Reviewed by Trevor zTfllen IT takes courage to write cheerfully of illness and affliction. The Yorkshire author W. Riley did it, I think, in Netherleigh; so did Wilson Midgley in From My Corner Bed; and some years ago I read a novel which portrayed a sensitive love between patients in a T.B. sanatorium. In The Plague and I (Hammond, 10s. 6d.) Miss Betty Mac- donald writes humorously and ...
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... At The Theatre Alii hour Tookinaii Mr. llaniir Kaye (Palladium) THE extraordinary cult of Mr. Danny Kaye has moulted no feather. Audiences have welcomed him back to England with the beaming affection which is the right of a favourite child home at last for the holidays. And when the nice, clever child begins to show off they are entranced. One puts it in that way without the slightest wish to ...