... arouses interest, maintains tension and, best of all, has a point. Endings are unexpected, often dramatic. Often the characters speak for them selves and, unawares, tell us more than they know. The sandwich story itself is a fine example. The husband in Gentle ...

... her family's menfolk, she and her children are swept into the industrial vortex of Detroit, a jungle filled with people who speak with strange accents, who behave in out landish ways, and whose way of life is written with a strange and angry impermanency ...

... by a cast from Stratford-upon-Avon that ought to be one of the major companies in Britain. We suppose, then, that it is to speak for the'dramatic art of this country at its best. No doubt it has been, and will be, received with respect in Europe. No doubt ...

... books have been sold, in eighteen countries at the same time, critics of the kind who are usually put off by popularity cannot speak highly enough of Simenon. His latest book, DANGER AHEAD (Hamish Hamilton 125. 6 d.), carries big names on the back of its iacket ...

... tolerated, if they are schoolmasters, like one of the characters in this case, or ostracised, if they are free-drinking, free-speaking couples such as the Kirbys of the story, whose marriage is breaking up and who come to the place as what one might be allowed ...

... collection of recent holiday snapshots A Present from Edinburgh Two or three further sticks of Edinburgh Festival rock, so to speak, may have a wide appeal. Certainly, the Royal Danish Ballet's contribution on Monday this week must have whetted many viewers' ...

... Literary Renaissance, our visitor made do with Dublin-to-day bohemia. She took part in a tremendous romp in Balls- bridge. Speaking of the popularity the Somerville and Ross stories once enjoyed, she seems unaware of their vigorous renewed vogue. Her remarks ...