... Sean Fielding IN war, and because of it, many men come to the first discovery of their full stature. This is a simple truth which, however morally and intellectually disturbing, is well understood. For equally well-understood reasons, it never fails to cause surprise. The soldier who wins a Victoria Cross is most liable to have his closest friends (in civilian life) declare their astonishment: ...

... THEY WERE MARRIED The TATLER'S Review BAILEY-- LINDSAY The wedding took place at Newcastle County Down, between Cdr. Edward Anthony Savile Bailey, M.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. second son of Mrs. W. A. Bailey, of Kingston Manor, Taunton, and of the late Mr. W. H. Bailey, and Miss Florence Claire (Sukhi) Lindsay, younger daughter of the late Mr. D. C. Lindsay, and of Mrs. F. Lindsay, of Eniskeen, ...

... BY ELSPETH GRANT MISS SHIRLEY MACLAINE, WHOM WE first encountered as an imperturb able widow in that macabre frolic, The Trouble With Harry, and last met as a golden-hearted tart in Some Came Running, is now to be seen as just the average young career- woman-citm-husband-hunt ress in Ask Any Girl-- a smooth comedy directed with a pleasing lightness of touch by Mr. Charles Walters. It doesn't ...

... BY GERALD LASCELLES ONE OF THESE DAYS THE RECORD companies are going to run out of superlatives in describing their artists. When Lionel Hampton, the vibraphone player in jazz, is presented in company with a somewhat stereotyped, albeit com petent, rhythm section, there is really no need to tag the album The high & the mighty! This is too strong a description for the pleasant, imaginative, ...

... BY SIRIOL 1IUGII-JONES ONE OF THE MOST ENCHANTING looks I have read this year is called demoirs Of A Princess, translated compiled by Nora Wydenbruck. The book is made up of reminis ences from the life of Princess Marie on Thurn und Taxis, who was born 1855 and was the good friend and of Rainer Maria Rilke. To me the most fascinatingly juching and lovingly written part f the book ...

... 111 ■Hill THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESENT BY JOAN HEILBRONER (WORLD'S WORK, 16s. 6d.) UNDER THE RED ROBE, NATIONAL VELVET (3s. 6d.) THE NEW NOAH, A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST (4s. 6d.) PENGUIN BOOKS SEMOLINA SILKPAWS COMES TO CATSTOWN BY GLADYS WILLIAMS (METHUEN, 9s. 6d.) RED IS NEVER A MOUSE BY E. CLIFFORD (WORLD'S WORK, 12s. 6d.) MERRY CHRISTMAS! (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 12s. 6d.) TINTIN IN TIBET BY ...

... IMlilHI WATERCOLOURS FROM THE CECIL HIGGINS ART GALLERY AGNEW'S I SUPPOSE I HAVE DRIVEN THROUGH BEDFORD at least a dozen times in the past few years but I have to confess that I have never stopped long enough to visit the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery there. If you ask me why not, I can only echo Dr. Johnson's reply to the lady who asked why, in his dictionary, he defined the pastern as the knee ...

... by Anthony Cookman I DID not see Miss Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey when it was first produced in the East End at Theatre Workshop. I was the better placed, therefore, to enjoy the romantic occasion of its transfer to the West End stage still warm from The Boy Friend at Wyndham's. I only knew that it had been written by a young Salford woman, that it had won the Charles Foyle award for ...

... by Elspeth Grant THE FILMS: Eve wants to sleep Barbara Kwiatowska Stanislaw Mikulski dr. Tadeusz Chmielewski Goha Omar Cherif Zina Bouzaiane dr.Jacques Baratier The word Victor Sjostrbm Rune Lindstrom Gunn Wallgren Vanda Rothgardt dr. Gustaf Molander UNTIL THIS WEEK, the only Polish film I had seen was Kanal, a dark and violent work sounding a high patriotic note and mourning the death of ...

... At the Theatre OPENING somewhat later than usual, the Shakespeare festival at Stratford found that spring had advanced to greet it. Cohorts of daffodils dancing along the river's edge in the bright evening sunshine sent us all into As You Like It in a holiday humour. And as we walked home with the leisurely, gossiping gait suited to a night of high summer we readily agreed with each other that ...

... Uy E. V. Knox I have heard Maynard Keynes des scribed as a financial wizard with an astonishing flair for new monetary devices and economic schemes in the adjustment of our affairs between World Wars One and Two; and again as a man who, in the course of juggling with the world's commercial chaos, managed to make a fortune for himself and (as bursar) for King's College, Cambridge. Something of ...

... Anthony Cook man THE theatre goes on playing a game of snakes and ladders with our hopes. Only a few years ago poetry was about to put on a new look and return to the stage in a big way Alas, Mr. Eliot was plainly seen in The Confidential Clerk to be marking time, and the true successor to The Lady's Mot For Burning was unaccountably delayed while Mr. Fry fashioned a vehicle for Dame Edith ...