... From Pillar to Post, by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi (Gollancz, 16s). A lively-minded Gollancz, 16s). A lively-minded American girl marries a foreigner with a taste for moving about the world: promising formula for a travel book, and producing here something of unusual style and quality. Anne Sinclair Mehdevi never tries to be too bright and amusing, nor does the absence of shrillness lessen the ...

... Adelbhi This twice-nightly revue is very much an i Anglo-French-American occasion. Tommy Trinder puts his comedy over with the friendliest professional gusto, Patachou s sings for Paris, Pinky Lee is endearingly individual, and choreography is designed by the suitably-named George Tapps. i ijjjjvjuujuj WNWXXX> j REVIEWS ...

... Drury Lane j You will remember the story. It is in j the Vieux Port of Marseilles. loves the cafe proprietor's son, Marius, but Marius loves the sea; when he leaves her she allows the good-natured sail-maker, Panisse, to give a name to her child. The Marcel Pagnol characters were honestly j drawn; in this American musical version (an unremarkable score by Harold Rome) j they become cardboard ...

... Carlton Glynis Johns and Rossano Brazzi in slight j British comedy about Monte Carlo honey- moon almost ruined by husband's passion j for mathematical systems. Funny in spots j nice Mediterranean backgrounds women f of all ages will love Brazzi. ...

... Odeon, Marble Arch Lame U.S. flier (Phil Carey) returns to French Morocco after war, to find his wife murdered in a blue negligee. Expendable. ...

... Plaza Harry is a body, found in the New England woods, and the trouble is to know how to dispose of him. Although there is 110 suspense and not much plot, this is one of Hitchcock's more macabre jokes. I found myself not much amused. But there 's a good new girl, Shirley MacLaine, and the colours of the autumn woods are ravishing. ...

... by ANGELA MILNE THE average historical novel is not one of the intellectual branches of literature, and it gathers to itself a nice, bright-eyed bunch of readers with clear views on their chosen fare. Whew! (you can hear us saying) nine hundred pages on Perkin Warbeck's brother-in-law! How do they do it, all that research first and keeping the facts in their heads! Well, here goes for a good ...

... The Judge and the Hatter By Simenoi. (Hamish Hamilton 13s. 6d.). I suppose i'. wasn't very clever, in a house well enough pro vided with the works of this prolific master, to go on never reading Simenon for no sounder reasc than that what is written so easily or anyway, quickly can't surely be so very good. Also I did glean a dim impression that a typical Simenon story was about as jolly as a ...

... Regent's Park One's delight on a shining night in the season of the year. As a variation on the Shakespearian repertory, Rostand's early comedy, in its costumes after Watteau, is the perfect entertainment for a fine evening in Regent's Park. Robert Atkins had good luck with it last season, and its revival on the right kind of July evening should satisfy both the ultra- romantic and the mildly ...

... Berkeley Lesser rabst htm about tnc army plot 01 1944 to seize power from the Nazi Party, and assassinate Hitler at Field Head quarters, with time-bomb planted in attache case. Semi-documentary treatment, jarring American commentary. ...

... by ANGELA MILNE SECRET Service Man Lost On Continent; Boy Hunted in Sewers; Library Worker Slays Colleague; Blackmail, Murder Baffle Private Eyes; Great Plague Sweeps Mediaeval Italy. Five of my six books are, as you see, pretty violent affairs generously endowed with grip; but none has interested me more than a mild and quiet first novel called My Darling From the Lion's Mouth (Chatto and ...

... Be Shot for Sixpence,' by Michael Gilbert (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s bd). Philip, an impulsive and unconventional character, walks out on his mistress and into an adventure that starts with an agony- column advertisement from a miss ing friend and lands him in a wild adventure on middle European frontiers. The search leads him to a fairy-tale mountain castle inhabited by an assortment of ...