... : Reviewed by Rrevor zydllen A DOCTOR'S work, like a woman's, is never done. Even his holiday may turn out to be a busman's. Mr. George Borodin-- the pseudonym of a Harley Street surgeon and pioneer in plastic treatment-- long dreamt of gipsying round the romantic isles of the Pacific. When at last he was able to do so he found he had to gipsy round operating tables, too. He was called to ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE ALL I COULD NEVER BE. By Beverley Nichols. Jonathan Cape ISs.) ATTILA. By Louis de Wohl. Gollancz 10s. 6d.) BRAVE AND CRUEL. By Denton Welch. (Hamish Hamilton 8s. 6d.) TWENTY SHILLINGS IN THE POUND. By W. Macqueen-Pope. (Hutchinson 21s.) ALL I COULD NEVER BE.-- It would be difficult to find four books more sharply contrasted than the ...

... ANY work of Alfred Hitchcock's, whether successful or unsuccessful, requires more than a cursory glance from a critic, and my choice this week falls on The Paradine Case not because it is a particularly good film, but because the man behind it is one of the very few directors who is allowed to make his own mistakes, and knows exactly what he is doing. This version of the Robert Hichens novel ...

... THE LUCK OF THE IRISH. One of the few Hollywood whimsies that have nearly come ofi, thanks to the beguiling performance of Cecil Kellaway as a leprechaun in attendance cm journalist Tyrone Power. my own true love. Phyllis Calvert and Melvyn Douglas in one of Hollywood's cost fire side chats about post-war marriage and neurosis Don't worry if you have to miss it. There 'li be lots of others. ...

... 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 ...

... No Ordinary Cheyney. By Peter Cheney. (Faber and Faber 9s. 6d.) No. It has verses and a photograph in it ft Saturday -Slow. By Emett. (Faber and Faber 12s. 6d.) I have to make the philistine and unfashion able confession that I don't find Emett awfully funny. I Rest My Claims. By W. V. Y. Dale. (Staples 9s. 6d.) It had to come, I suppose a novel based on the life of Charles Dickens. ft The ...

... Book Reviews The Jacnranda Tree'* Cry, the Beloved Country M There's I>To IVeed to Shout Elizabeth Hewehs THE JACARANDA TREE (Michael Joseph; 9 s. 6 d.) is H. E. Bates's new novel, and this month's Book Society choice. Like its predecessor, Mr. Bates's The Purple Plain, it is set in Burma-- time: during the Japanese invasion. The story concerns itself with the flight towards the Indian ...

... By Robert Dane LOOK here, said Hamlet, upon this picture, and on this. Which is what nearly a hundred thousand owners of television sets in this country are doing with regularity and zest. Not even Olivier's fans can outdo the enthusiasm of the average viewer, whose whole mode of life is revolutionised by the arrival in the home of that strange affair, the Cathode Ray tube. Curtains are ...

... HARVEY THERE is a moment in the skirmishing of this American farce at the Prince of Wales when Elwood P. Dowd is asked the Christian name of his boyhood's best friend. He replies, a little bashfully, Vernon-- and suddenly the mind is carried back, away from the frisking of Mary Chase's fantastic plot, to those revues at the same theatre in which Sid Field would utter the name of Ver-non ...

... I FOUND Miss Frances War field's autobiography, THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOUT (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.), quite the most enchanting thing I read this week, in its humour, its honesty and the underlying pathos which is never allowed to intrude or to set the mood for the life-story. Miss Warfield, who is still young, writes of the central fact of her existence, which might have turned that life into a ...

... 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 ...

... Elizabeth B oven's Isabel and the Sea Men and Wives Wore Women than Hen The Hunting Wasp False llounly ISABEL AND THE SEA (Heinemann; 12s. 6d.) would claim attention at once by the very fact of being by George Millar, author of Maquis and Homed Pigeon. In its own right, this is an absorbing book-- which, first and foremost, answers one question: what sort of thing does a man do when ...