... The Brave Don't Cry with C. A LEJEUNE {Now generally released) A small British company known as Group 3 have just made a film of which we can be very proud. Its title is The Brave Don't Cry, and it is based on the true story of a Scottish mining disaster of a couple of years ago. With strong, realistic strokes, with documented detail, with out sentiment or sensationalism, but with deep ...

... AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC. By Thor Heyerdahl. (Allen and Unw in 70s.) J The sub-title of this work is The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition, and one feels that the author regards his earlier book merely as a piece of entertainment compared with this vast collection of scientific evidence. THE FAR COUNTRY. By Neville Shute. Heinemann 12s. 6 d.) A sentimental story of England and Aus- ...

... with J. C. TREWIN (Old Vic) IT was trimmed with poppies, you may remember, and it was eaten by a horse. Most unfortunate, especially as the owner of the horse was on his way to be married; and the owner of the hat, who was philandering with a firebrand Captain of Zouaves, could .not return to her jealous husband until another Italian straw was found. Result a long day careering up and down and ...

... (Victoria Palace) LAUGHTER came less readily at the Victoria Palace. I speak for myself. Around me the theatre swayed. Strong men melted in their seats. Women sobbed hysterically. But I observed only the presence of Bud Flanagan, Nervo and Knox, and Naughton and Gold dressed as four women and a baby. The put-him-in-skirts jest has always been funny it is so in Christmas pantomime, when Widow ...

... (London Hippodrome) READERS of The Young Visiters will recall, I hope, how Bernard Clark ended his letter to Lord Clincham with the words: I must run up to the Compartments one day and look you up. But those Compartments, at the Crystal Palace, were the haunts of the Aristokracy. The thirty or more into which the play of is divided, are down in the East End, and split between police ...

... (Gaumont, Hay market) ANYONE who sets out to put on the screen is a brave man. He is challenging criticism at every turn. Dickens's book is nearly 1000 pages long; diffuse, episodic and crowded with characters. In translating this rich mass of material to the screen, com pressing it into less than two hours of running- time. and giving it some sort of connective theme, something is bound to ...

... Leicester Souare) DURING one of their periodic raids on high-class literature, Hollywood picked up this powerful short story of Ernest Hemingway's, about a writer who looks back on his adventurous but futile life, while dying of gangrene on one of the highest mountains in Africa. The result is the greatest love-story you have ever seen, in Technicolor with three luscious heroines and Gregory ...

... AT THE THEATRE.. ..with J. C. TREWIN First Choice A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Old Vic FIRST choice, yes: the Dream, surely, must always be that, whenever it is revived. But I am not persuaded that we shall think in future of this mid-winter production as our first choice from revivals of the last decade. Something is wrong now with the spirit of the Athenian wood at the Old Vic. The wood is not ...

... THE ANTHOLOGY OF A PUBLISHER -By VERNON FANE Hamish Hamilton Comments on his Twenty-One Years of Publishing IN his prefatory note to his anthology of twenty-one years of publishing, MAJORITY (25s. net), Mr. Hamish Hamilton says; Publishers' imprints are seldom noticed and their policies rarely appreciated. Nor is he com- plaining, for he only mentions it in order to acknowledge a rare ...

... A WEEK OF NEW NOVELS The Autumn Publishing Season Gets Under Way with a Spate of New Novels by Distinguished Authors, Including Doris Less ing, R. C. Hutchinson, and Neil Gunn -By VERNON FANE NOVELS by distinguished authors, novels by new authors, novels by Welsh, German, Italian and American authors continue to come in, and what greater sign could one have of the current vitality of ...

... TRAVELS IN AN ARMCHAIR The Backgrounds of This Week's Books Range from England to the Far East -By VERNON FANE THE legend is that King Solo mon talked to a butterfly as a man would talk to a man, or so says Kipling, misreading Holy Writ. In KING SOLOMON'S RING (Methuen. 15s.) Dr. Kon rad Lorenz takes the title with some reason because he is a recog nised authority in the whole field of ...

... SHOItTEIt NOTICES ww^ s Criticus m t I ONE OF OUR SUBMARINES by Edward Young. (Hart-Davies, 18s.) In a foreword Admiral Sir George Creasy, C.-in-C., Home Fleet, says, the author of this book had built up a fighting record which was second to none and he was, indeed, one of our greatest submarine captains. I quote this because the modest Young would have you believe he was anything but a ...