... Andrew Millar Dick was in Jersey at Easier for the start of the cabaret i season at the Chateau Plaisir Hotel, where the Two Tomassos will be until the end of September. Other presentations arranged by Mr. Millar Dick, in conjunction with Percy Manchester, include Gordon j Whelan. who will be at the Somer- I ville Hotel from May II, the Harry Lester Hayseeds floorshow, which opens at the ...

... Possible Fortune Awaits Pioneer THE possibility of the successful staging of ice cabaret in hotels in this country is terrific, says Harry Harris, the agent who has travelled extensively in America to study various methods of ice presentation. Over in the United States they use a tank of about 20 ft. x 20 ft. and, in the more go-ahead places like the Conrad Hilton, Chicago, the whole thing ...

... 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 ...

... Aldwych Too expensive. No doubt the Brecht- bubble will be burst in a year or so. Mean while, here is this outmoded perversion of The Beggar's Opera, with Kurt Weill's uncomfortable music. Reasonably pro duced and played. ...

... Kathleen Ferrier By Charles Rigby. (Robert Hale 15s.) As may be expected from an experienced musical biographer, this book emphasises a great singer's per formances and professional notices, both British and American. Besides their tech nical value they have also the interest of reminding us that it was not possible to judge that voice without the personality from which it flowed that a ...

... Living With Birds By Len Howard. (Collins 15s.) Miss Len Howard has already influenced ornithologists with her fantastic patience in watching and making friends of birds, and her remarkable observations on their behaviour. This new book is a further record in which Star, a great tit, plays a sensational part. Appearing in 1946 in the garden of Miss Howard's bird-haunted cottage, Star lived ...

... by JACK BENTLEY Top Choice In the interim period between the jazz era and present day cool music, there existed a style of dance music which was dubbed swing. This idiom was frowned upon by the purists, mainly because they claimed that the newly acquired polish to popular music was at the expense of sincerity. Listening to the reissued discs in L.P. form of the King of Swing, Benny Goodman, ...

... Sport from the Inside An American Journalist Looks Back Over Fifty Years At a time when some sections of sport are under the threat of falling into disrepute, not least professional boxing, much interest attaches to the frank but unembittered reminiscences of a sportswriter of the fame and standing of the late Grantland Rice, an American columnist. For half a century he watched golfers, boxers ...

... Sir Winston's Finest Story The Magnificent First Volume of His History of the English-Speaking Peoples in Burma and the Pacific a Rich and Varied Collection of Novels By VERNON FANE SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL tells us that the first volume of his HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (Cassell. 30s.), which appears this week, has been slumbering peacefully since the outbreak of the last war and ...

... Captive Private A Remarkable War Book In the library of prisoner-of-war books, THE LONG ROAD HOME, by Adrian Vincent (Allen and Unwin. 15s.), deserves a special place. The author neither tried to escape nor seemed to have thought of making the attempt. An infantry private, he was taken prisoner at Calais in May 1940 after five days in France. Without any heroics he describes life in a stalag ...

... Criterion Here, again, are the General from Ar- d6le and his wife the woman who screams like a peacock, but here seems more inclined to dance: a grim, skeleton- dance that stops the laughter. The note of the play might have been a Chekhovian stage-direction: Marsh-fires appear. Adapted, as before, by Lucienne Hill, this is less satisfying than Ard£le, but its broad, harsh, smoky comedy, ...

... Paris-Pullman i A good long-shot, with splendid pe- J riod atmosphere, and a film version of Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, which caused such a sensation in the eighteen thirties. Gerard Philippe plays the handsome tutor who sets about seduc-' ing high-born ladies in order to prove that a carpenter's son is anybody's equal. Danielle Darrieux is his fust victim and last love, Antonella ...