... himself; thc polished and ex perienced comedian with an unmis takable style, Jimmy Wheeler is made for thc part of Baron Bankrupt and ambles good-naturedly through thc show with hearty bonhomie. Peggy Thompson is the (all and hand some Prince Charming ...

... inherits a small Ruritanian principality called Lampidorra, just where France, Italy and Switzerland join. Lampidorra is bankrupt, but Miss Donlan, with the help of an English sales man educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge (Dirk Bogarde), ...

... Some Other New Films LUCKY ME (Warner).-- Cinema Scope adds little to this musical about four bankrupt entertainers, who have to work in the kitchens of a swank Miami hotel to pay their dinner bill. Doris Day adds a great deal. Her jaunty walk, her sunny ...

... Fascination promptly receives what the Americans call her come-uppance. Thereafter she drifts from one agent's office, and one bankrupt studio to another, and learns what people mean when they say there is a slump in the British film industry. Eventually she ...

... criticism of their act from other quarters. Ways and Means, with Valerie Hobson and Nigel Patrick, is about a charmingly bankrupt couple in the South of France, who plan to soak the rich with the help of a gentlemanly burglar. Fumed Oak, by far the best ...

... Amantha ranks as a slave herself the papers which should have freed her were never signed. Mr. Starr, moreover, has died bankrupt. Amantha is liable to seizure, as saleable pro perty, by her father's creditors; and this, at his very graveside, is what ...

... the moment when Bassanio reveals his Alice-in-Wonderland economics (if the concern in which you have put your money goes bankrupt, become wealthy by doubling your investment) to its Shylock-in- Blunderland climax. Now, one way to deal with a problem such ...

... built a dreadfully suspenseful case against the newspaper-man hero. IN BRIEF I recommend Brian Glanville's new novel. The Bankrupts (Seeker and Warburg, i6r), which describes the troubles of a sensitive, aesthetic London Jewish girl out of sympathy with ...

... picture of Australia and all the better for the freshness of its impressions and the brightly observant eye of the writer. THE BANKRUPTS (Seeker and Warburg. 16s.) has a plot which is basically old-fashioned, even traditional, but Mr. Brian Glanville has given ...

... can always buy it back at the price paid. That's still the law, though it has become more or less obsolete. No man can go bankrupt or be punished for fraud, except by expulsion. If a man is found presumably murdered the bailiff tells the usher to cry thrice ...

... of journalism forgets the advantages that North cliffe conferred upon it. To him The Times owes its transformation from a bankrupt nine teenth-century relic into a flourishing twentieth- century property. To him the paper owes its being as a national daily ...

... in her own right has the Midas touch. Newfoundland linked her fortunes with Canada only a few years ago, and now the once bankrupt island that derived her income from codfish, making it almost a currency, begins to leave behind the days of bleak poverty ...