... HRAMA: Night Sky, a Good Play with a Strong Propaganda Element Hamlet Without Cuts at the Old Vic Puccini at Co vent Garden By PHILIP PAGE IF you are sick of pantomimes (and not too sick of the 'flu to attend theatres) you will find in Night Sky at the Savoy demon kings in the form of hostile and murderous aircraft. There the parallel ceases, for this is a tragic and serious play. It has a ...

... (Continued from page 100) at a discount and scientific problems in high favour. Readers, in other words, now like working for their entertainment. For these reasons Mr. Frankau's book may not fill the popular bill. It is breezy, unfailingly entertaining, light-hearted, and sadly lacking in serious, solvable mysteries. In fact the earnest student is likely to cast grave doubts on some of the ...

... Drama and FILMS: J. B. Priestley's Play in Three Acts and Four Dimensions a Really Brilliant Effort A Poor Musical Comedy at the Palace Donat and Dietrich Co-Star By PHILIP PAGE IN I Have Been Here Before at the Royalty Theatre Mr. J B. Priestley has written a play in three acts and in four dimensions. The second half of my description will no more hold water than Mr. Priestley's metaphysics, ...

... The World of Books Lore I Cotte n h am PL rites a bread and butter letter to the United States Air. Nils Holstius Sees Holly wood s St range Uife From Afore Than O ne Angle Reviewe d By VERNON FANE A GENUINELY grateful guest is one of the most pleasant of social phenomena. The host feels that his efforts of hospitality have been appreciated, his visitor can be presumed to have enjoyed himself, ...

... DRAMA: Lucie Mannheim' s Outstanding Per formance in Nina The Passing of a Great Dramatic Actress Clark. Gable and Jean Harlow in a Notable Film By PHILIP PAGE OF course it had to be a double-- in the intoxicating if non-alcoholic sense. For Miss Lucie Mannheim is a big star in her native Germany, where, for certain reasons, she is not at present welcome. And, according to the programme she ...

... : History Wobbles a Bit in Muted Strings Ian Hay's Credible Picture of Public School Life By PHILIP PAGE WHY muted? If ever there was an unmuted play it is Muted Strings at Daly's. In the first place it is all about Beethoven, who was neither mute nor inglorious nor a Milton, and, like the majority of musical and unmusical geniuses, did not (save as an artist) know much about restraint. Also ...

... DRAMA The New Nares Technique The Return of Cyril Maude The Obscurity of The Barber The French Season O.T. My Hat By PHILIP PAGE Mr. Owen Nares was not long ago playing, in a piece called Pleasure Cruise, the part of a middle-aged husband who watches his wife being made love to by a younger man, and who, demolish ing his rival, takes the silly woman back to his arms where all will be ...

... pv f A Reviewer's Taste Alters The Memoirs of a Noble German A j^ f 1 C 1 IC Reviewer Reviews His Own Work A Record of Life in the Hidden Land The New Buchan Genre And Other Literary Notes By CECIL ROBERTS When asked what kind of books give me most plea sure I reply Memoirs. It is singular how along the journey of years one's taste changes. There was that stirring period of adolescence when ...

... Drama and Films the Week June Knight Excels in Going PI aces Charles the King, an Extraordinarily Fine Play By PHILIP PAGE HOW many musical comedies, I wonder, are supposed to take place in Paris? At least 75 per cent. Paris is not a very gay place at present, and Going Places at the Savoy was, on the first night, not quite so gay as it might have been or as it probably is by now. High jinks ...

... A HULBERT-COURTNEIDGE Comedy Triumph A Protracted Opening Seme Gives Place to Some Rare Fooling in Under Tour Hat By Philip Page TO shake off film influence and environment must be a mighty difficult business. Mr. Jack Hulbert, having been kept by these away from the stage for some years, writes, with two collaborators, and appears in, a musical-comedy which is all about the films, with ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE SADLER'S WELLS is as adventurous with its opera as it is with its ballet. A week or two ago I was watching there some spectacular Tchaikovsky ballets which not long before had been danced at Covent Garden to the accompaniment of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. If the verdict was not one of unqualified eulogy, it was a long way above the faintly damning (and utterly ...

... The World of Books Reviewed by VERNON FANE Hugh W alpole W rites Another Novel in the Anthony Trollope Tra dition 7 homas Wotfe Produces a Brilliant Successor to Loo^ Homeward Angel WITH Mr. Hugh Walpole's new novel, THE INQUISITOR (Mac millan. 8s. 6a.), we are happy to find ourselves once more back in the cathedral town of Polchester, to greet an old friend in Canon Ronder, and to follow the ...