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... A tribute to scholarship The Meininger Theatre 1774-1928, by Steven DeHart (UMI Research Press; Bowker Publishing Company, £27.50) The Meininger Theatre is largely unknown to the average theatre enthusiast and even the serious student might well have to scratch his head before attempting an explanation of its significance. It is therefore a tribute to American scholarship that Steven DeHart ...
... Strong flavour P.S. We Love You the Beatles Story 1962-3, by Tony Barrow (Mirror Books, {1.25) Twenty years after the release of Love Me Do, charting much better than it did on its initial issue, comes the latest in the series of Beatles' memorabilia and nostalgia, with pictures which prove the humble origins of the world's greatest supergroup. Not a long read, and aimed at the fans rather ...
... Superstition and 'Scottish Play' The Curse of Macbeth: with other theatrical superstitions and ghosts, by Richard Haggett (Picton Publishing, £7.95) Kicnara Huggett s diverting miscellany of superstitions connected with the state is a delight. If you have to remember rabbit's feet, teddy bears, old pieces of even older dressing gowns, photographs of one's nearest and dearest, telegrams and ...
... early death in August 1977, has waited until this book for an analytical and dispassionate assessment of his work. One feels that, despite the millions of words that have been poured out in print on the subject, the complete pic ture of his true personality, as opposed to the meticulously cultivated myth has hitherto been lacking. Albert Goldman, after exhaustive research, has come up with ...
... Academic and the gossipy All the Start in Heaven, by Gary Carey (Robson Book*, £7.95) THE AUTHOR, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, strikes a nice balance between the academic and the gossipy in this biography of Louis B. Mayer, which is also, of course, the story of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. was mayer me uneuutaicu, megalomaniac, priapic ogre his detrac tors made him out to be? ...
... Absorbing life's lessons The Story of My Life by Ellen Terrv. (The Bovdell Press. £4.95) There cannot be any serious theatregoer, or for that matter any regular seeker after theatre entertainment, who has not read The Story of My Life by Ellen Terry. But if there be such ones, let them buy a copy of this new edition without delay. And to young people new to the theatre but with real interest ...
... Victim of Hollywood Lulu in Hollywood, by Louise Brooks (Hamish Hamilton, {8.95) The late Kenneth Tynan rediscovered Louise Brooks, bringing to our attention a long-forgotten face and reminding us of a talent that once threatened to light up Hollywood. Hers was a very striking face, with the expression of a sophisticated waif, and allied with a natural grace for she was a dancer who trained ...
... Not so trivial! Trivial Fond Records by Leslie Howard, edited by Ronald Howard (William Kimber. £9.50) The late Leslie Howard must go down in history as surely the actor most chronicled by his own family. Following his daughter Ruth Leslie Howard's biography A Quite Remarkable Father, son Ronald filled in a number of personal gaps in his recent In Search Of My Father and has unearthed. ...