... 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 ...

... Elizabeth Bowcn TELEVISION, by Maurice Gorham (Percival Marshall; 12s. 6d.), is sub-titled Medium of the Future-- a claim Mr. Gorham does much to substantiate in the course of this short but engrossing volume. The book, he says, is not a technical work; it is for those who want to know more about television's present position in the world and its prospects of growing out of the pioneering ...

... Cbfr B0 i li oiit Codkman Folies Bcrgi'rc Kevue (Hippodrome) TWICE nightly revue in this country is apt to produce in us the uncomfortable sensation of having dined at a wartime snack bar. A second snack might possibly add up into a decent meal, but the first has already desolated the appetite. They order this matter better in France. The Folies Bergère show, with its glitter, its elegance, ...

... Elizabeth Mtowen VASCO PRATOLINI is one of Italy's foremost novelists: A Tale of Poor Lovers (Hamish Hamilton; 12s. 6 d.) is the first of his books to be translated into English. The scene is a street in Florence; time, 1925-26 --between the two wars, with Fascism in the ascendant. Pre-eminently, this novel is not a study of political conditions, nor is it a diatribe against political evil. ...

... ctt tfc- Aiii hour CJoukman Trcasdirc lltanf** (Apollo) AN excellent specimen of the farce made for export; indeed, it is quite a while since a better entertainment based on the wild exaggeration of national characteristics crossed the Irish Sea. In Spring Meeting the same authors, M. J. Farrell and John Perry, were much more ambitious. They drew its fun and pathos from direct observation ...

... cut tfc A Streetcar Named Desire (Alilnvrh) Anilioiiv ('ookniaii SO this is she, the distressful lady of the deep South whose moral and mental troubles have knocked, and continue to knock, eager American audiences endways. Purgation by pity and terror, according to all accounts, is no longer to these audiences a dead professional quotation, but a living truth. We receive the lady ...