... siderable lustiness, too, and the same approach, half-scholarly, half-rollicking, to the customs and speech of the time. Speaking for myself, it is an age that I am heartily glad to have missed, out I cannot deny the vitality of the Lindsays' writing ...

... first on one group, then on another, without allowing us to be distracted by the crowded scene. Some of the actors should speak up in the eighth row of the stalls I found a few of the voices blurred but there is much direct and competent playing a cast ...

... Diaz? Yes, senora. 'Many thanks. It is Mat, Teresa of Albeicin who is speaking: the wife Don Floris Conde. Yes, senora. Of the (avert Do me the favour to inquire if I may speak v Don Jose himself. If the senora will have the goodness to waiij little ...

... has only a limited run at Hammersmith but it is so much better than West End arrivals during the same fortnight that I am speaking of it first in the hope tl^t Central London will soon have a chance to applaud for itself, a The play lacks the deadlier ...

... demonstrates that the author has a deal of local knowledge about Kenya. More than that I cannot say, although the dust-cover speaks of a thunderous climax to a suspenseful story of espionage. A Tree of Night, by Truman Capote (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.). In ...