... (Lb tfe, Death Of A Salesman (Phoenix) THIS is the day of the little man. The puppet chosen by the dramatist for in exorable doom wears a greasy trilby in place of a crown and no noble mind is here o'erthrown. Instead a shoddy little brain cracks from an overdose of slogans. This is the way the world ends, says Mr. T. S. Eliot, not with a bang, but a whimper. Yet if the impact of a play ...

... 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 ...

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... trottie true. A gay little Technicolor number from the British studios, based on Brahms' and Simon's witty novel about Gaiety Girls and mashers. Chief honours go to James Donald as a titled young-man-about-town, but Jean Kent makes a pleasant Trottie. M. obsession. Smartly revised screen version of Alec Coppcl's horrid thriller, A Man About a Dog. A distasteful subject handled with as much ...

... . By John Brophy. (Collins 10s. 6 d.) THIS is a carefully-planned and interesting novel set in Palestine during the last years of the British Mandate. Its central theme is the love-story of Julian Barr, a major in Intelligence, and Margit Tolmay, a refugee from Hungary. There is plenty of incident, but it has been contrived to show off a number of people and sometimes therefore lacks ...

... . 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. ...

... . By William Barnes. Longmans (Dorchester) 6s. 6 d.) A new selection of the poems of the Dorset dialect poet who was a friend of Tennyson's. Mr. Giles Dugdale adds a useful foreword and some biographical notes. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. By Mario Ghisalberti. (Heinemann 15s.) A most formidable book. The life of Columbus told as a very long novel. TT THE GREAT BLIZZARD. By Albert E. Idell. {Sampson ...

... THE THEATRE TOUGH AT THE TOP. The curtain at the Adelphi rises upon a charlady cleaning a step. But it is an Oliver Messel step in a Cochran production, and the charlady is that jewel of dancers, Beryl Kaye. When the curtain falls, some three hours later, we are in the Place de la Victoire, Prune, Pomania. The evening has been, on the whole, another victory for the new Adelphi school of ...

... by Robert Dane IN recent weeks we have talked to (or, in most cases, lis tened to) a number of the boys from Alex andra Palace, and found them a healthy mixture of fanaticism and rumbling discontent. They are not a bit like the boys from Portland Place: they work harder, for one thing, and are consequently less tired. Their eyelids do not droop as in the case of the fellows you meet in those ...

... K . By Nicholas Blake. Collins Crime Club 8s. 60.) WHAT a relief it is, after the ulcerous morbidity of many modern novels, to take up a good, straight story of murder. I felt grateful to Mr. Blake from the moment in which a headless corpse is discovered in the river and the head itself drops from the branches of a tree. One knows where one is with this sort of thing, and begins automatically ...

... Shnkcspeare The Margin Foniagrc 4 'Case-Book of Ellery Queen Elizabeth Bewei IVOR BROWN'S Shakespeare (Collins; 12s. 6d.) is a study of that ever-debatable mystery, Shakespeare's life. Or, one should say, rathèr, Shakespeare's existence-- the sensations and impulses surrounding him during the fifty- two years while he was on earth, as a man like unto ourselves. For Mr. Brown's purpose, a ...