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... THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORIES, published by Dakers, are designed to present the history of all aspects of life in Britain since 1900, and the first twenty volumes of this ambitious work should appear by the end of 1952. ...

... Antony and Cleopatra*' A. Caesar and Cleopatra (St. Jannes's) Anthony Cooknian THEATRICAL form is quite unpredictable, and it is a relief, after all, to feel quite certain that Festival visitors will not go away wondering why so much praise has been given to English acting in recent years. The Oliviers have seen to it. Flying high, present ing Shavian comedy one night and Shake spearian ...

... Freda Bruce Lochhart A JAUNDICED view is what critics are commonly supposed to take of the pictures with which they are sated. Jaundice then might be regarded as an appropriate punishment to fit the crimes of criticism. Contrarily, I have only had to be prevented from physical presence at the pictures for a week by this yellow sickness which is supposed to colour all one's outlook, to find ...

... Cbb Tfe. Relative Values (Savoy) Anthony Cookman MR. NOËL COWARD is still a dab hand at light comedy, and his latest piece, though it has perhaps less of comic substance than Blithe Spirit, Private Lives or Hay Fever, gives the present theatrical season something of which it stood badly in need-- an assured success. The values the comedy contrasts are those of Hollywood and the English ...

... Let Us Now Praise Hi g I Ifno.v A LIST of books taken out of one of our municipal libraries during the last three years shows me that during the month of August the figures for fiction have remained practically steady, while those for non-fiction have increased by three thousand or more. It may be assumed that a large part of this increase is caused by a growing demand for biographies recent ...

... Eccentric In Gaiters E. V. Knox WHEN the Bishop of Derry, who was also Earl of Bristol, came to the Great Convention of Irish Volunteers in 1783, his carriage was preceded by a squadron of Dragoons in gold and scarlet, surrounded by a bevy of young clergymen, riding splendid horses from the Bishop's own stable, and followed by a second squadron of Dragoons. The Bishop himself, in his open ...

... (bt Tlic Moment Of Truth (Atlclplii) IT is sad to see a good subject swamped in a deluge of words. The subject obviously (though Mr. Peter Ustinov will not be tied to names) is the French collapse of 1940, and history has provided in Pétain and Laval strongly contrasted characters linked in a fateful relationship well worth a dramatist's study. Mr. Ustinov is so discursive and long winded ...

... Reviewed by Trevor z. Allen WILDE wit was no Oscar monopoly. Brother Willie shared it; so did their mother, Lady Wilde. When Oscar accepted the editorship of the Woman's World she told him: We all have to begin in a small way; and six guineas a week will at least keep you in carnations and cab fares. Hearing that novelist Lady Florence Dixie had called one of her heroines Speranza she said ...

... S THAT is the slogan of the Ga/elord Hauser gospel which was first popular with Hollywood stars. It recommends, especially for the over-forties, a daily diet including brewers' yeast, yoghourt S (or milk or buttermilk) fortified with powdered skim milk, wheat s J( germ and black treacle; cafe au lait or, better still, two teaspoons z S of treacle in a half-cup of hot water with milk added. ...

... If it is a few days in London Christmas shopping for others, or as a Christmas gift for yourself, here is a guide to London's current theatrical attractions something to everyone's taste from farcical to classical. WHATEVER else we may say about the London stage at the moment, it is not taking a gloomy view of life. There has rarely been such an em phasis on comedy, in all its forms. First, ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen MOROCCO is no tame tourist haunt, though we might think so when we hear of Mr. Churchill going there to paint and recoup in the sun. To one who goes right off the beaten track, like Rom Landau, it is a country of unique people with strange customs feudal survivals, occult practices. The native snake-charmer differs from most, for at Marrakesh, Mr. Landau saw one ...