... THERE 'S GLORY FOR YOU Rupert Croft-Cooke By Michael Harrison. (Werner Laurie;* 10s. 6d.) I COUNT myself among those who have long been waiting for a really fine novel from Mr. Michael Harrison. He has certain qualities as a writer which have been promising great things for him ever since he began to publish. Now here is a novel which, although it does not entirely fulfil one's hope, is ...

... . By Olivia Manning. Heinemann 9s. 6 d.) Miss Manning's theme is more slender, but she holds fast to it, and her novel is without digressions or irrelevances. The scene is Cairo during the last war, and the city and its people, the squalor, heat and colour are suggested rather than described. The guns are heard off as the Germans approach and recede, and there are plenty of alf raids and ...

... master of lassie.-- -Embarrassingly winsome i worK about an old Highland doctor, who has neither chick nor child to pray beside his death-bed, only a collie. Tcchnicolored and tear-stained. A ...

... HOW dare you-- writes an infuri ated female viewer with an H-aerial in Purley and a marked flair for underlining-- how dare you be so hard on the poor television people? Can't you give them a chance? Can't you realise that they are doing their best in, I believe, very difficult circumstances and that television is, after all, still in its infancy I think your criticisms are very unfair, and ...

... INTO BATTLE WITH THE GRENADIERS The Story of the Regiment in the War Ever since the late Colonel Henderson wrote his life of Stonewall Jackson, military historians have had before them a prime example of the way in which military history can be rendered wholly palatable-- can, indeed, be as enthralling as a well-constructed historical novel. It is good to see others adopting the lively ...

... 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 ...

... . By John Pudney. (The Bodley Head 8s. 6 d.) IT is a pity, also, about Mr. John Pudney, for it is scarcely necessary to say that he, too, can write exceedingly well, and in this politico- bucolic farce does himself less than justice. It is little more than a year since Mr. Evelyn Waugh sent a classics master off to a totalitarian country for a holiday, and here we have a village football team ...

... EMLYN WILLIAMS' original film, The Last Days of Dolwyn, will chiefly be remembered for the superb performance of Dame Edith Evans, in a medium that is still comparatively new to her. But the picture has such a strong native quality of its own, is set out with such delicacy of feeling against a background of the most enchanting countryside, that for quite two- thirds of its length it holds ...

... miss tatlock's millions. A humiliating I picture about a Hollywood stunt-man, who undertakes to impersonate the lunatic brother of a dewy and gullible heiress. To my palate, a thoroughly nasty taste. ...

... IT is, of course, asking for trouble to split either an atom or a television criticism. In the last issue we wagged a reproving forefinger at the average viewer's complacency, promising to convict the boys at Alexandra Palace of the same besetting sin in this issue. We added that this mutual treat would be postponed only if, in the intervening fortnight, the boys trotted out a masterpiece to ...

... Cbfr Anthony Cookman Tlik Lady's \t For Burning (4>lohr) IT is becoming increasingly difficult to tell each other on the way home from the theatre what this or that highly enter taining play has been about. What is hap pening? Are we more stupid than we were, or do dramatists grow out of all reasonable compass, Sir John cleverer? The explanation, I think, is that we are used to plays which ...

... Cbt tfe- Tlio Power of Darkness (Lyric) Anthony C ookman FILM stars who either renew or develop a passion for the theatre are to be en couraged. They must not, however, make encouragement too difficult by needlessly multiplying their own difficulties. If, like Mr. Stewart Granger, they have not acted on the stage for six years and, like Miss Jean Simmons, must appear in the West End wearing ...