THE WOMAN OF ROME
... . By Alberto Moravia. (Seeker and Warburg 12s. 6 d.) Clever study of a prostitute in Mussolini's Italy. M. ...
... . By Alberto Moravia. (Seeker and Warburg 12s. 6 d.) Clever study of a prostitute in Mussolini's Italy. M. ...
... . By James Kinross. (Hamisl i Hamilton 9s. 6 d.) An ex-officer who has been a prisoner in Germany spends two years in hospital suffer ing irom tuberculosis. This day-to-day account of it is frank and heartening. ...
... top o' the morning. One fine Irish morning somebody steals the Blarney Stone and Bing Crosby as an insurance investigator from America, and Barry Fitzgerald as a local police j sergeant, unite to find it. The script is gracefully written, and the whole thing has a little touch of green magic. j dear mr. prohack. Arnold Bennett's cautionary tale about the awful things that happen to a Civil ...
... . By Roger Fulford. (Macmillan 18s.) A new and shrewd appraisal. Mr. Fulford is particularly interested in the Prince's con tribution to the increase of the political power of the Crown, and in his relations with his wife and children. ...
... I am given to understand that on rarely hears verse spoken at a corktai party not more than half-a-dozei times a year at the outside. But whei T. S. Eliot is the host, anything can happen. In this strangi affair, which begins with one party and ends with another, hi has written a play of which Edinburgh has been talking nineteer to the dozen. London before Christmas should be talking of il ...
... THE UNDERCOVER MAN.' Intelligent semi- documentary about a Government agent who is out to catch a big-time gangster on a 3,000,000- dollar income-tax evasion. Sound, firm, Ameri can stuff, with Glenn Ford, the mail-order Muni. ...
... CHICAGO DEADLINE. Alan Ladd in a com plicated but fairly original thriller, about a reporter who delves into the past of a dead girl, and has to shoot his way out of trouble. ...
... TRAIN OF EVENTS. Four short stories, some grim, some gay, bringing the protagonists to gether in a train crash between Euston and Liverpool. The direction, by four hands, is uneven, but you will find something, somewhere, to warrant the price of admission. Jack War ner, Valerie Hobson, John Clements are my buy. FILMS IN BRIEF ...
... . By Ian Niall. (Heinemann 8s. 6d.) MR. NIALL is one of the most interesting writers to have appeared since the war. His first novel. No Resting Place, a harsh and realistic story about Scots' tinkers, gained immediate attention, and his second, Tune on a Melodeon, dealt with people no less brutish and was quite as effective. Now he has produced a story of another sort. FoxhoIIow is an ...
... . By Robert Finnegan. (The Bodley Head 8s. 6 ...
... . By Barbara Anderson. (Gollancz I Os. 6 d.) The American colour problem again in a long, straggling novel about a pianist whose mother is a negress and father an unidentified white man. ...
... . By Oliver Warner. (Batsford 2is.) A pioneer survey which makes onlv a two-line reference to T. B. Hardy. ...