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A Strange Story

... A Strange Story AT rare intervals one strikes a story --psychological, spiritual, dynamic ally original-- which either tries one's patience or demands complete sur render. Mr. Chris Massie's Pity My Simplicity (Faber, 8s. 6d.) is not for those who require ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

The Asp, and Other Stories

... The Asp, and Other Stories by John Knittell (i Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) COMING from the author of Via Mala and Dr. Ibrahim, these short stories are a little dis appointing, and lack the quality of the novels. ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1936
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 37 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

Dam Buster's Story

... Dam Buster's Story IN his rise from Flying Officer, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C., S served with fighters and most types of bombers. He led the daring raid on the Moehne and s Eder dams which washed out the Ruhr. Before he was reported ...

The Short Stories of Michael Arlen

... The Short Stories of Michael Arlen (Collins, 7s. 6d.) THIS omnibus volume contains over 30 stories, including such popular collections as These Charming People and May fair. Re reading them after an interval of time, one is struck by the debt which ...

A THRILLING ESCAPE STORY

... A THRILLING ESCAPE STORY-- FROM the time when Reuter's first issued the briel announcement that several British Generals had escaped from their prison camp in Italy, it has been obvious that a big story must lie behind the report. Considerations of security ...

Short Stories: Nightmares; The Knot Garden

... Short Stories Nightmares A Collection of Uneasy Tales. (Phillip Allan, 23. 6d.) The Knot Garden' by George R. Treedy. (Bodley Head, 7s. 6d.) THE first of these volumes consists of twelve stories designed to make the reader shudder. They are all by different ...

'Tell me a story--res, but how?

... 'Tell me a story Tes, but how Previewed by z/tmold 'Palmer I THE novels mentioned below are all in the old tradition-- that is to say, they are meant to provide entertainment rather than instruction, to amuse rather than convert the reader. Narra tive ...

Here come the Chorus: A Story about Musical Films, how they are made and the Girls who make them popular

... Here come the Chorus A Story about Musical Films, how they are made, and the Girls who make them popular Told by Busby Berkeley to Margaret Chute PATTER of dancing feet. Tapping of a thousand toes. Swaying of hundreds of supple bodies; waving of slim ...

Here To-day--Gone To-morrow: Mushroom Movie Towns: A Story of the Way Film Companies work and live On Location

... Here Gone T o-moWW^WU HKf 1 1 tflXPlIM A Story of the Way Film Companies work and live On Location By Margaret Chute TO order the construction, and subse quent destruction, of an entire town, solely for the purposes of making a moving picture play, ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2333 | Page: 20, 21, 22, 86 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

New Novels

... extended through many generations, up and down the whole of the east coast. The story told by Mr. Ben oegms m 10^, and ends only in the years just passed. It is a very long story, like so many modern novels but, unlike most of them, it is not a page too long ...

Sailors

... SHORT STORIES By Bill Adams Harrap 2 s. 6 d.) THIS little book is one of a series called Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday. The volumes in the series present choice specimens of the work of famous writers of short stories Guy de Maupassant, W. ...

The Haunted Omnibus

... (Cassell, 8s. 6d.) SOME forty or more ghost-stories, chosen from sources so varied that they include Beowulf and Mr. Michael Arlen and W. L. George. Strange though the authors look in company, their stories have been selected by an editor who knows his ...