DEAD LION
... . By John and Emery Bonnett. Michael Joseph ;8s. 6 d.) This is a reviewer's paradise-- a convincing novel about a murdered writer. ...
... . By John and Emery Bonnett. Michael Joseph ;8s. 6 d.) This is a reviewer's paradise-- a convincing novel about a murdered writer. ...
... .-- -A very moving film indeed, about men of the Burma Army in a hospital shack in the jungle, with a startlingly accurate performance from Richard Todd, British screen newcomer. FILMS IN BRIEF ...
... . By C. P. Snow. by Rupert Croft-Cooke Faber and Faber 12s. 6 d.) DURING the second decade of this century and for some years after wards, a great number of books were published which told, with laboured details of background, the story of a man's youth. Some of them followed Mr. Compton Mackenzie and described this in a public-school and university setting; others were indebted to Mr. Gilbert ...
... . By Dennis Gray Stoll. Collancz 9s. 6d.) A rambling and shapeless novel set in India, of which country the author writes with infectious nostalgia. Books in Brief ...
... THE Pre-Raphaelites are having a renascence of popularity, at least in so far as literary discussions of their work are concerned, and Professor Oswald Doughty's important new volume on Dante Gabriel Rossetti is yet another step in the re discovery of that remarkable and vital group of poets and painters. A Victorian Romantic I (Frederick Muller. 25s.) is literally a ponderous volume in its ...
... .- --A not-quite-successful attempt to carry Margaret u Brien over tne awkward age between childhood and adolescence, with slightly self-conscious charm and etiolated Technicolor. J4. ...
... . By Neaio Marsh. (The Crime Club 9s. 6 d.) IT is from just such ornate and outré fal-lals as Mr. Brooke's that I expect to find an escape in crime fiction, but in this case I find myself bewildered by another kind of firework. Why, I cannot help asking, does Miss Marsh rob her story of all probability by a cast of characters so eccentric and puppet-like that no one could seriously pretend to ...
... 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. ...
... 8 y Collie Knox I FIRST met Cecil Beaton in the Adriatic. Venturing too far on a swim from my base in Yugoslavia, I was failing visibly. Was there no Weissmuller in the sea that morning? There was A clear, incisive voice cried Hold on I'm with you. Swimming with the ease and grace of a champion, up popped Mr. Beaton, the darling of the photographic gods. Resolute, calm and with, of course, ...
... .' A minor Treasure of sierra Maare, well done, with a good many novel twists, about nine men and a woman who dig for buried gold in the shifting sand-dunes of the Mexican border. With Ella Raines, Randolph Scott, John Ireland. ...
... YOU can't sleep here.- A stag-party joke, originany entitled 1 was a Male war uriae, which involves Cary Grant in a female impersona tion, and gets what fun it can out of the old situation of the delayed wedding-night. ...
... REVIEWS and PREVIEWS By C. A. Lejeune SO DEAR TO MY HEART Let us make no mistake about the new Disney, So Dear to My Heart. It is a special film aimed straight and true at a special audience-- at the gentle-hearted, the sentimentalists, the simple, the affectionate, the people with quiet lives and long memories, the people who love children and animals, and enjoy a good cry so long as ...