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... At The Theatre Anthony Cookinan 4*Tlio Way Back (Westminster) THE central episode of this disconcerting play is plain war drama-- four of us against fourteen thousand of them, three G.I. engineers and a major mapping out for invasion a Pacific island occupied by fourteen thousand Japanese, a scene to take away the breath of schoolboys. Something happens while the engineers are making their ...
... Book Reviews **A Sort of Traitors** We Follow the RoadN 44 Olivia The Black Coat Elizabeth Betvehs MANY a reader may blink, at the first glance, at the title of the new Nigel Balchin novel-- A Sort of' Traitors (Collins; gs. 6 d.). Why, how and whence the plural? Is it, then, correct to speak of a sort of traitors as one speaks of a pride of lions or a gaggle of geese? Mr. Balchin's ...
... Elizabeth Botvcn OF Harold Nicolson's Benjamin Constant (Constable; 18s.) the publishers say: The book is more than a portrait of an individual: it is a sketch of an age. This is true-- and, further, it is a fact that the com bination of an extraordinary character with an epoch which (if less noisy) was not less momen tous than our own provides Mr. Nicolson with a quite perfect subject. We ...
... Elizabeth Botven MARGHANITA LASKI'S flair for a subject amounts to genius-- she showed that at her debut with Love on the Super-tax. She has done it again with Little Boy Lost (Cresset Press; 9s. 6d.). This may seem cold- blooded praise for a deeply-moving novel-- the most moving, its publishers opine, to appear for years, perhaps since Dickens. Something better than flair has directed ...
... PROUST AM) THE DUKE Elizabeth Boiven IF I had known that he would become famous, exclaimed a lady, naively, I would not have thrown away his letters! How vexatious for her. She spoke of Marcel Proust-- who is the subject of Princess Marthe Bibesco's The Veiled Wanderer (Falcon Press; 7s. 6d.). The young man, at once known and unknown-- known as a wit, a character; un known in that his ...
... At The Theatre Summer in December (Comedy) An ...
... M 7 fc. Anthoii) ('ooknian French Without Tears audeville) IT seems to be a not very good year for nonsense. Much that has been offered lately as light and sparkling has been neither. But if we are not in the mood to produce the stuff, the demand for it must somehow be met, and the theatre does well in the circumstances to draw on the vintage nonsense of the middle 1930s-- the years of ...
... Cbt tfe Tin1 I. a I Ednina Blark (Am liavs a dors) Anllioiiv (ookmnii A NEAT little play, admirably acted by a cast of four-- Miss Catherine Lacey and Mr. Stephen Murray, Mr. Raymond Huntley and Miss Beatrice Varley. Modestly described by the author as a mystery thriller, it is in fact more a study of character exposed to the wear and tear of police suspicion than a nice derangement of ...
... At the Theatre September Tide (Aldwyeh) Anthony Cookman MISS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE is our only leading lady, the last rose of a splendid summer-- in the sense that she, and no other English actress, can afford to be sublimely indifferent to the dramatic merits of the play in which she appears, secure in the knowledge that she is herself the dramatic spectacle. That is no reflection on our ...
... dJu (L lllark (Wcshuinslcr) Anthony ookmaii HEROINES whose motives have to be explained to us by a doctor are not as a rule interesting, but the rule, while it may help to explain why a play has failed, has no application to a play which has broken it successfully. Miss Lesley Storm's heroine spends the central scene of this play answering questions put to her by a psychiatrist, and the play, ...
... At The Theatre The Srliool For .Seamlal (IVrw} Anlhonr ookmnn IN his preface to a new edition of The School for Scandal Sir Laurence Olivier calls the most brilliant comedy that has been given the world. Extravagant? Perhaps. Bu let the toast pass! The Old Vic is beginning a new seasop Hopes run high. The Oliviers are back fron their triumphant tour in the Antipodes. Thi caller of the ...
... I [i Reviewed by Trevor Allen I SMILE when authors are rapped for not doing what they never set out to do. Kay Summersby was General Eisen hower's driver for three exciting years. She wrote Eisenhower Was My Boss (Werner Laurie, 11s. 6d.) as a record of personal experience and to show him and other war leaders in their off-the-record moments. Inevitably some may seem trivial for the simple ...