... Has Swinson still something to say? 1 WRITING FOR TELEVISION by Arthur Swinson i Adam Charles Black. 2nd edition. 16/. TPHE second edition of a book must be a mark of success. s Since the first edition of Writing For Tele- E vision appeared five years ago, TV in this 1 country has developed enormously. Has Arthur Swinson, 1 one of our best known 2 playwrights still some- 1 thing useful to ...

... A life of Robeson THE life of one of the striking men of his time is told in Edwin P. Hoyt's Paul Robeson published by Cassell at thirty shillings. It is a story of struggle and triumph, of the world acclaim of a singer with a most beautiful voicc who gave a new meaning to Negro spirituals for modern audiences. It concerns an actor of considerable stature who played Othello in London and ...

... Magnificent Guitry SACHA GUITRY was magnificent: in his gesture to life which made him take whatever of the world he fancied as his oyster; in his theatrical flourish; in his glittering talent; in his rich friendships and the love affairs that continued until his death, when he was worn out and ill in his seventies; in his passion as a collector of works of art and rare manuscripts. The ...

... Micheal and Oscar THE story of Micheal MacLiammoir's interest in Oscar Wilde, which began with naive curiosity when he was a boy and culminated in his one-man production The Importance of Being Oscar, is told with a flourish and a command which remind one ol this hne actor in the theatre, in his new book, An Oscar of No Importance, pub lished by Heinemann at thirty- five shillings. When ...

... The ABC of Film and TV Working Terms has been published by The Focal Press. 0 Compiled by Oswald Skilbeck the book contains in its 157 pages a comprehensive dictionary of working words currently used in British film and TV studios. 91 1 should prove invaluable to all those working in the Industry. ...

... BOOK REVIEW MANY of TV's most successful writers have made contributions in a new book just published by Michael Joseph called The Television Playwright (Price 50 shillings). I he price is small tor such an interesting work contain ing ten plays by ten authors; Willis Hall, Ken Hughes, Nigel Kneale, Leo Lehman, Iain MacCormick, Elaine Morgan. Colin Morris, John Mortimer, Michael Voysey and ...

... Television By Desift n. Bodley Head. 4 guineas. THIS book-- written by Richard Levin, Head of BBC-tv design since 1953-- claims to be the first work to cover in detail the whole theory of television design. It has many lavish illustrations. Sixteen pages in full colour which show production design would appear to be propaganda for the BBC's TV colour system. As the BBC were first with TV ...

... Intam Commercial TV Data Book PURPOSE of the Intam Commercial Television Data Book is to supply accurate knowledge of available facilities and scope in the expanding industry--and this it has done. Prepared by Infam Limited, the International Division of the London Press Exchange organi sation, uli 271 pages of the new 1960 edition have been devoted to 39 countries with com mercial TV services ...

... Television and films clear and simple The Living Screen. Roger Manvell. Harrap. 15*. THIS is a readable basic book presenting the principal facts about television and films. Roger Manvell sees them as sharing a common factor--a moving picture with sound. From this idea he goes on to discuss them in separate chapters pointing out in a simple but effective way the vital differences be tween ...

... One can learn from just perus ing the drawings of Zworykin's iconoscope and comparing it with the later image orthicon. As a lecturer on the subject of TV, inter alia, I approve, wholeheartedly, their method of approach and I agree with their explanations of what is a complex subject. Be he actor or advertising agent. I think the reader cannot help learning, and understanding those things in ...

... You'll get an insight into American TL from this TV Medium Rare, by Ernie Kovacs. (Transworld Pub lishers, 316 pp, 8vo.. 3/6). HHHERE have been one or M. two novels about British and American TV Morgan's The Great Man, Barker's The Golden Gimmick, and Prior's The One-Eyed Monster, with action varying front studio to office. Mr. Kovacs sets a great part of his action in the studio itself, and ...

... Handsome theatre history 'T'HE STRENGTH of the mimetic instinct in man has ensured the continuance of theatre from its early development from a communal act of worship by the breakaway innovations of Thespis, leading to our generally accepted idea of it as an entertainment involving an audience emotionally but not physically. This underground stream, proving man's need for theatre, is ...