Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... r itti J PLAYS KJ| 11 ra ri n n tl ni it n a a o_JU Great Catherine in The Czarina The Cuckoo Arrives at its Nest very Late By HERBERT FARJEOH Can there, I wonder, really be any basis of truth in the idea that foreign kings and queens, foreign emperors and empresses, foreign czars and czarinas, are somehow more foreign than the subjects over whom they rule? Is the King of Italy more Italian ...
... IX X The Best Biography of the Age; Long Novels; Greatness Manque: l*J V 7 V 7 J I Satire in Black and White D. H. Lawrence Week by Week By CECIL ROBERTS Very occasionally in a critic's life there arrives a book that rewards him for weeks of unprofitable reading. Immediately he is aware of the deep pleasure of reading. The well-turned sentence, the profound thought, the gift of reconstructing ...
... The PLAY'S the THING By PHILIP PACE The Old Bachelor. There is usually some amusement to be derived from the auditorium as well as from the stage when a play of the seventeenth or eight eenth centuries is revived. Restoration comedy can be relied upon to repay the nuisance of going to the theatre on a Sunday night if one takes the trouble to study one's companions, known or unknown, during the ...
... Jabberwocky Among the White Birds Miss Tallulcth Bankhead as the Good Girl Who Wouldn't By ALAN BOTT, with Mr. Lew Leslie's White Birds, at His Majesty's, is a Jabberwockian revue. Long before the much-delayed first night, it had impressed itself on the public mind as a sort of fabulous monster; a monster with an excess of well-known names making it hydra- headed, and with a gaudy tail ...
... Shilling Shockers and Penny Dreadfuls Books and their Publics Even Modern Homers Nod At the bottom of this page will be found a long list of novels of the best seller type. Some of them won't sell at all, but they are all meant for popularity, and written for that purpose. Every author hopes his book will attain fabulous sales, but often there is in him something stronger even than this hope ...
... SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS Baghdad in Bygone Days, by Constance M. Alexander. (John Murray. 16s. net.)-- Few people in these days know the name of Claudius Rich, on whose letters and journal this interesting work is based; he was, however, a remarkable man whose pioneer work deserves this record. Rich was resident in the Caliph's capital from 1808 to 1821, when he died of ...
... . Arnold Palmer on jRevSewedl ttfexas Wee!&0 T HE CHRONICLES OF THE FORTUNES OF RICHARD MAHONY: Part III, ULTIMA THULE.' By Henry Handel Riehardson. Heine mann. 7s 6d.) THE REBEL GENERATION. By Jo van Ammers- Kuller. (Dent. 7s. 6dj\ THUS AND THUS. By Henri Barbusse (Dent. 7s. 6d.) IN CHAINS By Joseph Delmont. Hutchinson IF 'the TREE IS SAVED. By Barbara Cartiand. Duckworth 7s. 6d.) THREE ...
... Colour and Conquest The Black Pirate Miss Marjorie Bowen Explains By S. R. LITTLEWOOD Whatever be the troubles that environ the cinema just now, there is no possible doubt that it is the most exciting thing happening in the world of art. Wherever I go I find my friends who write about spoken drama and music and painting all beating their brows in the effort to find in those old crafts any ...
... 022 BOOKS Arnold Palmer Reviewedl t£S&is Weelfe, SELECTED ADDRESSES AND ESS A YS. By DISCOUNT HALDANE. {Murray. 6s.) THE WAY OF PEACE.- By VISCOUNT CEC! L. (Philip Allan. 12s. 6a.) HEINE THE STR /INGE GUEST By HENRY BAERLEIN. (Bles. 12s. bd.) THE DREADFUL DRAGON OF HAY HILL.' By MAX BF.ERBOHM {Heincmann. 7s. 6s.) HUMOURS UNRECONCILED. By SHERARD VINES. (Wish art. 7s. 6d) SHOW GIRL. By P. ...
... Mr. Cochran presents Miss Edythe Baker and Others The Sweet Young Girl as Soap Magnate By ALAN BOTT, Revues, like Ministries, take on much of the nature of their originators. The Chauve-Souris show is as much a projection of M. Baliefi's personality as the Fascist Government is of Signor Mussolini's. And since Mr. C. B. Cochran has never hidden from the public his showman's character and ...
... The Superior Woman Novelist but the Supreme Male Author Short Stories for Cash At the bottom of this page you will find the names of six novels. I have been read ing them; but it is only now when I am trying to arrange them in convenient sequence on the table where I write, that I notice that three are by women and three by men, and that I have grouped them thus. They are not placed in order ...
... Conscience Makes Coward Home Chat outside the Home A Great Spiritual Production of a Great Spiritual play By ALAN BOTT, with caricatures by One of the two enigmas that surround Mr. Noel Coward is the atmosphere at is first nights. Whatever the quality of the play to be produced its production is always an event. The stalls are stiff with celebrity and expectation, pit and gallery feel that ...