... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... MR. NOEL LANGLEY'S new book is in a way a surprise, as it seems of such a different type from his other work, but perhaps his versa tility should have prepared one for surprises, and his delicately romantic version of the young love of Dante for Beatrice should only show a new facet of a remarkable talent. The In constant Moon (Arthur Bar ker. ios. 6d.) is a charming book, both to the mind and ...

... . By Cecil Gray. Home and Van Thai 1 6s.) THIS is a very unusual autobiography, written with a devil-may-care honesty which I find most disarming. I do not mean that it is full of egocentric self-dissection, or embarrassing revela tions of things seen in the cowshed. I mean honesty of purpose and frankness in opinion. Mr. Gray dislikes a good many things and people, and says so candidly. He ...

... the bribe. ■Dilemma of a Federal agent who finds himself in too hot a spot, literally and figuratively, while tracking down war surplus racketeers. Charles Laughton never stops acting the others scarcely start. ...

... THE GREAT GATSBY. Alan Ladd. MacDonald I Carey and Betty Field in a cautionary tale from Hollywood, proving, rather smugly, that the path of sin leads straight to the tombstone. Films in Brief ...

... TULSA ALMOST in a whisper, for fear that my higher- browed colleagues may hear me, I have to admit that I enjoyed Tulsa. It would be folly to pretend that this-is a work of art, imagina tion, or peculiar intelligence; or indeed that it is anything but a thumping good action picture but the movies have been getting so anaimic of late that a film pumped through with bright red blood and thick ...

... . By Elizabeth Taylor. (Peter Dov/'es 8s. 6 d.) IT is a pity about Miss Elizabeth Taylor. She is so nearly a very good novelist. She can whistle up characters who command one's interest, but she worries them like a terrier with a rag, and she sets such strict limits of time and place to her story that it tends to become artificial. Her cast in this book is small and so carefully selected that ...