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... who could better have filled this assignment. In Sugar for the Horse (M. Joseph 12s. 6d.) H. E. Bates, a master of the short story, has put together a dozen new tales in which his redoubtable if somewhat irregu lar Uncle Silas gets involved in curious ...
... Elegant production of weak story by Patrick Campbell I'D RATHER parade in my pyjamas down the promenade than face my mother, says young Hugh Garthome in Motherlove. Robert Muller's adaptation from J. D. Beresford's short story, shown in the series Ten ...
... People and Players IN A Few Gypsies (Putnam; 12s. 6d.) Rupert Croft-Cooke discusses, through the medium of the short story rather than the essay, some traditions of these people, their history and habits. To-day the true gypsy is virtually extinct-- at ...
... BY ANTHONY COOKMAN THE ODDS AGAINST A SUCCESSFUL stage adaptation of The Aspern Papers-- that intensely character istic short story by Henry James of a literary misadventure taking place in a wonderfully described Venice-- were, one would have said, f ...
... stage and screen's best known names, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. Constance. Cox has done a great job with this short Wilde story, en capsulating in this stage adaptation, dialogue that could have come straight from Wilde. There was a deserved round ...
... test of a collection of antiques and essays so diverse and so short as those which make up the late Sir Desmond MacCarthy's HUMANITIES (McGibbon and Kee; 15s.). But in his case their shortness merely makes us regret that the occasion of their writing did ...
... apprentice at the time of the Peasants' Revolt for which the children seem to have no fancy, and a bizarre assortment of old short- story magazines which have now stopped publication, left behind by guests long since departed the hotel, if not this life. Luckier ...
... Everyone in the world who reads short stories in magazines m st know by now exactly what one means by just like a short story in the New Yorker. And absolutely the only thing I have about Nero Yorl r short ...
... fully written and truly unnerving ghost story by Shirley Jackson, who most often writes about wild, unghostly home life with the Jackson children but will be remem bered for her one flawless and horrifying short story The Lottery, which remains her single ...
... one of those fictional-factual stories about a young woman's life in a London hospital during the war, full of spirit and verve, and with more good humour than introspection. In the first of this week's batch of short story volumes, Mr. Paul Gallico has ...
... elbow and was not inventing his story as he went along. Mr. William Saroyan, the Ameri can short story writer and play wright, has gone one better than the imaginary Shakespeare. He is said to have improvised a stage story complete with dialogue for the ...
... coffee and brandy Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert is the short story of a one-time Hollywood child star, told by herself, and though Mr. Lambert who wrote some admirable Hollywood stories called The Slide Area has the gentlest ear for Daisy's speech ...