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... Cls& iisi^ Aiitlioiiv Cookinmi all Mc Madam (Coliseum) THE new musical piece triumphs over several obvious disadvantages. It intro duces modern politics into Ruritania, a notion likely to shake those who trust librettists and lyric writers to protect them from the carking cares of an unromantic world. The politics, moreover, are American, and they have been interlaced with lightly satirical ...
... : Reviewed by Trevor zAllen IT is difficult to associate the gentle radio voice of Spike Hughes with a double-bass, but it was that sombre instrument-- inherited from a friend-- which launched him on the world of music. He noted that bass-players in dance bands were thought to have done a day's work if they plucked two notes in a bar, and decided: here was an easy way of making money. It was ...
... CALL ME MADAM with J. C. TREWIN Also Chosen Coliseum WE are told in the Coliseum programme that neither the character of Mrs. Sally Adams, nor Miss Billie Worth, resembles any other person alive or dead. Another note adds: The play is laid in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg, the other the United States of America. Now we know. Or do we? Personally. I think that one should ...
... THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. MAKING A FILM. RETURN TO CHESTERTON. By H. P. Lovecraft. By Cynthia Asquith. Chronicled and Edited by Lindsay Anderson. By Maisie Ward. by Rupert Croft- Cooke H.P. LOVECRAFT'S The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a literary curiosity. This author's previous book of ghost stories, Haunter of the Dark, gained him comparison with M. R. James ...
... . By Charles Terror. (Collins 10s. id.) Almost a documentary of the early days of the Salvation Army, threaded by a con ventional love-story between one of William Booth's first Hallelujah Lasses and a naval lieutenant. BOOKS IN BRIEF ...
... . By John Lodwick. Heinemann 13s. 6d.) A somewhat pretentiously presented murder mystery, set in Paris. ...
... WATCHING BRIEF Highlights of the Next Fortnight 3 HPHE most important event, naturally, I is the opening of the Scottish tele- J vision transmitter at Kirk O'Shotts on 3 3 March 14. The opening ceremony will be J 3 at 7.30, when Lord Tedder, one of the B.B.C. Governors, will invite the Secretary 3 3 of State for Scotland, the Rt. Hon. James J 3 Stuart, M.P., to inaugurate the service, 3 3 ...
... with J. C. T RE WIN LET us all be unhappy together, murmurs Christopher Glowry during the course of the evening. Mr. Glowry owns Nightmare Abbey, between the sea and the Lincolnshire fens. It is a highly romantic and melancholy place, an ample pile complete with owls, ivy, weeds and cobwebs. Mr. Glowry enjoys gloom, and he likes nothing more than to have a few kindred spirits glooming with ...
... -By VERNON FANE Necessary Evil, a Weighty But Highly-Readable Volume The Revival of Interest in Zola THE lives of Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle have been written, re-written, discovered and uncovered until the average reader (which, after all, is a good kind of reader to be) may well feel that he knows the stormy couple almost too well through prose. and might not have liked them any better ...
... THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MOSHEH OVED An Autobiography of Pace and Power It is at first hard to know what to make of Mosheh Oved's VISIONS AND JEWELS (Faber. 21s.), for these pages of autobiography are the deeply-felt outpourings of a Zionist who is bound by no literary conventions and to whom time, place, facts and figures are seemingly unessentials which may or may not be included as feeling ...
... THE TROUBLE AT NUMBER SEVEN. By Gerald Bullett. (Michael Joseph 12s. 6 d.) MY NAME IS MICHAEL SIBLEY. By John Bingham. (Go llancz 9s. 6 d.) THE GOURMET'S WEEK-END BOOK. By Andr6 Simon. (See/ey Service 12s. 6 d.) MERRY GENTLEMEN. By Rowland Watson. Werner Laurie 30s.) by Rupert Croft- Cooke THE TROÚBLE AT NUMBER SEVEN is the first novel which Mr. Gerald Bullett has given us for some years. It ...
... . By Betty Martin. Lehmann 12s. id.) A simple, very moving and very heartening i i account of a girl's life in America after con- j trading leprosy. ...