... ' Elspeth Grant Otto Preminger's latest film, In Harm's Way, has an all star cast list as long as the arm of coincidence hut that doesn't prevent it from being a crash ing bore. The best that can be said for it is that it looks as if it might be the war film to end all war films-- and what a blessing that would be. It starts with Pearl Harbour and is so old fashioned in tone and treat ment ...

... Oliver Warner Desmond Donnelly's Struggle for the World (Collins 42s.) is described on the outside as being about the Cold War from its origins in 1917. That is, it starts with the Russian Revolution. It is a narrative summary of the international political changes and ter giversations that have overtaken humanity during the last half-century. Among the more interesting passages are the ...

... Robert Wraight After only a few minutes in the Marlborough New London Gallery, which at present (and throughout August) houses ex hibitions by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon, I had this article all figured out. It was to be about heaven and hell. Heaven was, of course, the Moore exhibition, which starts on the ground floor and con tinues down the staircase (an inverted Jacob's ladder?) and ...

... Oliver Warner Nicholas Mosley's Accident (Hodder & Stoughton 18s.) is a novel concerned with the effect of a motor-smash in which an Oxford undergraduate is killed. At the time he is with a Ger man girl, Anne, who survives. The pair of them were on their way to visit the narrator, the don who supervises their work. The novel explores the sense of vicarious responsibility of in volvement on a ...

... Robert Wraight When is a private collection not a private collection? The short answer is: when it is the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. The truth of this may not be apparent when the 200-odd works are at home in Mrs. Guggenheim's Venetian palazzo but it is glaringly obvious now that most of them are on show at the Tate Gallery. In 1964 friends of the Tate were heartened by rumours that Mrs. ...

... I Oliver Warner, Rosalie Glynn Grylls' biography Portrait of Rossetti (Mac- donald 35s.) has two particular claims to attention. The first is that, unlike at least one serious venture into Rossetti- land, it is sympathetic. This artist was a man of remarkable gifts, a leader in the pre- Raphaelite Movement and the author of many poems, some of which were interred with the body of his wife in ...

... I Robert Wraight At irregular but fairly frequent intervals I receive communica tions from the British Mus eum's Press department. Most of them announce some such thing as the acquisition of a 15th-century German bookbind ing or the rearrangement of the bookstall. Few of them bring the sort of news that makes me want to drop everything and hurry to Bloomsbury. But it has happened. I recall, ...

... I Jol n Salt It opened well, this new play by Harold Pinter, The Homecom ing, at the Aldwych Theatre. which is to say that it opened like a Pinter play, not so much a happening as an occurrence. All of you who have seen a Pinter play-- and there must be lots by now-- would have known exactly what to expect. Menace of curse. Menace instinct in every phrase, and loaded syl lable, non sequiturs ...

... ' Oliver Warner That publishing paragon, Sir Stanley Unwin, has been say ing for years that trade follows the book. If that is so (and no one has contradicted) then our trade should be in for a good time. Book exports flourish. I have been talking with experts on this subject, and the figures they quoted me, some of them confidential, are pretty striking. For instance, since the war, the ...

... Elspeth Grant/ If you remember the Blonde Bombshell, whose platinum name and bra-less bosom first ravished the public eye in Hell's Angels in 1930, you're bound to be disappointed by Joseph E. Levine's Harlow (X). If you're too young to have seen her-- and just about every body seems to be, these days-- you'll wonder why anybody thought it worthwhile to make a film about the gal. In either ...

... Oliver Warner/ How sad can be the fate of an original thinker in matters concerning war. President de Gaulle was once snubbed by superiors for thinking ahead of his rank, and there is the case of our own military commen tator, Captain Liddell Hart, whose Memoirs: Vol. 1 (Cassell 42s.) have recently appeared. This is a very full book, studded with observations and episodes concerning the great ...

... J. Roger Baker/ Among the many extraordinary aspects of Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron at Covent Garden, perhaps the most striking is that the music it self is so immediately assailable. The very words: A 12- tone composition can strike a chill, and preliminary home work on dodecaphony, while clarifying the technical aspect a little, hardly prepares one for the opera's totality in terms ...