... Korean battlefront. Conceivably, too much ground is covered-- that is, for one book. For also embedded in Tony Chisholm's narrative are extracts from the Wishart-Pitcairn history, with the ins-and-outs of that feud of Jacobite days: an obsession with the late Mungo Wishart. Time and again the exciting, adventurous parts of The Dark Of Summer honourably remind one of John Buchan. Few Buchan ...

... Maestro of Conductors A Portrait of Toscanini Headhunters at War; a Life of Adventure; Impressions of Indo-China an American Cause Celebre New Novels and Thrillers -By VERNON FANE A SPLENDID and final answer to anyone of the old regime who inveighs against the introduc tion of radio into so many millions of homes might be the one word: Toscanini. For without radio and without the fact that ...

... Adventure at Eighty -By VERNON FANE Mrs. Patterson's Life in the Mountains Novels by Miss Rose Macaulay ancl Mr. Wyndham Lewis and a Selection of Other Fiction WHEN a lone woman decides to leave her cosy little home in San Francisco and make for the mountains and a remote and rickety log cabin, that is courageous enough, but it is even more so when one finds that she has recently come out of ...

... Elizabeth Bo wen THE SUMMER-HOUSE, by Rose mary Harris (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) makes a delightful addition to this spring. It is a first novel, but one would not think so. The charm and the comedy and the oddness are not easy to pin down in a review-- sad it is that authors one most enjoys are sometimes inadequately rewarded I think Miss Harris's secret may reside in the fact that, while ...

... i Palace This is the Renaud-Barrault company, and J that ought to be review enough. The first- j night audience cheered the artificial flourishes I of an old Lope de Vega comedy, Le Chien du j Jardinier (a version by Georges Nevcux). Superb j acting made artifice sound like art. Four more 1 plays are in a month's season; there are only two further performances of Moliere's The j Misanthrope. ...

... Hippodrome Some disarming clowning. And, if y°u i cannot go to Rome, here at least is the Fountain of Trevi more or less. J ...

... Mob Dick Warner Theatre and Studio One Join Huston's brave and exciting attempt to bring Herman Melville's classic to the j screen, with Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, J the fanatical mariner with a whalebone leg, who is dedicated to the pursuit and destruction j of the great white whale. The film misses j the full scope of Melville's mysticism, but conies out as a tremendous sea adventure. ...

... j Plaza j Joan Crawford goes through hell as a business woman who learns that her boy-husband (Cliff Robertson) is a thief, liar, near-bigamist j and violent schizophrenic, revet ting to infantil- j 'sm and beginning to regard her as his mother. 1 isn't too easy for the audience either. ...

... Empire translation of East Side juvenile delin- l quent into world's champion middleweight, I v gl'ace *->°d and Pier Angeli. Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano. L ...

... La Cieale (The Grasshopper) Everyman, Hampstead Beautifully played and thoughtfully directed j film from Russia, based on Tchekov story, about a good and quietly great doctor who wears himself to death paying for the bohemian 1 extravagances of his sweet little, silly little wife. A curiously sensitive piece of Victoriana. ...

... j Saville j I suggest that some of my colleagues are j failing to distinguish between play and players. Congreve's comedy of manners is madly 5 tangled: once grow impatient with it, and the j night is lost. It is so easy to miss the subtleties j of the passage in which John Clements' Mirabell, kneeling beside Kay Hammond's j pouting Millamant, recites the articles of j matrimony and hears her ...

... Zarlton Backstage musical of the hideous 1 920 s, about the trio of song-writers De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, who were responsible for such pop numbers as Black Bottom. Birth of the Blues and Scamv Bov. W ith Gordon MaeRae, Ernest Borgnine, Dan Dailey and Sheiee North. So-so. ...