... at the Old Vic The new production of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy is directed by Franco Zeffirelli, best known in Britain for his opera productions at Covent Garden. It is the first time that the Italian producer has directed Shakespeare, and Romeo and Juliet with its background of family strife in Verona, is a happy choice. The production is noteworthy for its settings of Italian streets ...

... KHRUSHCHEV'S POLICY The Importance of Farmlands The world has watched the recent behaviour of Mr. Khrushchev with bewilderment, for very few of us can do more than hazard what are the pressures of political life in Soviet Russia in the post-Stalinist era. His latest biographer, George Paloczi-Horvath, is a Hungarian by birth who has studied Soviet theory and practice for more than twenty years ...

... The Matador's Life The Autobiography of Carlos Arruza When the great matador Don Juan Belmonte was once asked to comment upon his autobiography he is said to have replied that it had never occurred to him to read it. The same story could no doubt be told of many a celebrity, but not of Carlos Arruza, whose book MY LIFE AS A MATADOR (Hutchinson, 21s.) is very much the work of his own hand and a ...

... Changing London's Shopping Habits The American Who Founded Self ridges Class Behaviour in the U.S.; More Autobiography by Frank Norman and a Cosmopolitan Collection of Novels TO thousands, possibly millions, of Londoners the name of Selfridge is as familiar as the name of a street or a park, too much so for this to seem like an unsolicited testimonial. Now the biography of the man himself, ...

... Memories of Show Business Reminiscences of Henry Kendall and the Autobiography of Fred Astaire; Memoirs of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart; Decision About Hiroshima; Biography of an 18th-century Figure; This Week's Fiction THERE may be-- in fact, there are-- books of greater significance in this week's list than the autobiography of that popular actor, Mr. Henry Kendall, but I have chosen to write ...

... By o Canadian geophysicist Mr. John Tuzo Wilson is engaged in a successful career in his chosen field of geophysics-- he is Professor of Geophysics at the University of Toronto-- but when approaching political matters he is as naive as they come, and, strangely enough, his naïveté serves him well, and his straightforward first impressions of China do him credit. ONE CHINESE MOON (Michael ...

... Essays on American writing; corre spondence between Bennett and Wells; and this week's varied fiction Eugene O'Neill was a very considerable play wright; almost a great one. He was also an unhappy, bitter and haunted man for much of the latter part of his life. In his play, Long Day's Journey Into Night, there is much that is autobiographical. Indeed, his surviving son has said that he could ...

... LIFE IN MOROCCO New novels by Jan de Hartog, Roger Manvell, and Rex Warner, and this week's detective stories After this disastrously damp summer, any book with a title like THE HOTTER WINDS (Hutchinson. 21s.) must be off to a good start. Mr. Patrick Turnbull, who has written this autobiographical tale of travels in India, in French North Africa, in Spain and. for a matter of weeks only, in ...

... CHRISTMAS GIFTS Recommended books to give to cooks gardeners, lovers of humour, and children of all ages This week, more than a month before Christ mas, what I am going to write could well be called a Page for the Prudent since its object is to point out a number of books for contem poraries or for children, which would make enchanting or useful or, in either case, very welcome Christmas ...

... THE DUCHESS OF MALFI at the Aldwych Theatre The spectator, peering intently at Webster's Jacobean tragedy for the first time, is liable to lament with Milton's Samson that all is dark irrecoverably dark. This strange play, full of tortuous plotting behind rustling curtains, biting whispers of jealousy and corruption, and fiercely-lit scenes of corruption and death, has been chosen as the work ...

... The Reform Bill Era, the seven years preceding Victoria, was of considerable domestic importance, quite apart from the Great Measure of 1832. Those years threw wide open the gates of Victorianism and democracy, and called to the throne an old eccentric with no visible qualifications even for the role of the best of the Hanoverian Kings and the last sovereign of an old order. It is true that ...

... .d Black Klondyke* Pioneers of the Pennsylvania Oil Too Life becomes extraordinary in a community where the fuel for the fires of hell (as one devout churchman described the Pennsylvania oil-gushers) is brought to the surface, making every second man rich and every man say to his neighbour: How does your garden flow? This happened in the south-west corner of the State of Pennsylvania in the ...