... A Fantasy, a Farce, a New Revue, a Russian Season, and the Lure of Golden Hair By ALAN BOTT, wilh caricatures One reason for the success of Outward Bound, Mr. Sutton Vane's play of after-life, was that all his characters were dead. On their plane of existence they were just as objective among themselves as were ourselves, the spectators, in coarser clay. When, however, disembodied beings and ...

... Biography rampant Autobiography in excelsis Literary Vituperative Curates Admittedly there are no reasons for sup posing that we are nearing the end of publications dealing with the War. But there were reasons, or at least temptations, to believe that we were losing our capacity for being startled and shocked by revelations. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett's book will show most people, I fancy, that ...

... And is Replied to by CECIL ROBERTS Once in a while there comes a book that is a landmark in the acres of books through which one wades in the hope of proper entertainment. I was not pre pared for the rich entertainment that I have discovered in a new book on Whistler. true, the man was bizarre enough to make bright writing easy, but the elements were so mixed in him that mis interpretation ...

... Ww I J\ The Renaissance of the Theatre: Filmland's Efficient Publicity: jm I Shakespeare and Ballet: Alison's House and the P.N.T. By PHILIP PAGE Bursts of prosperity in the theatre are obstinately frequent. They have a way of coming just in time to upset the prognostications of those who con sider that the doom of the theatre began the day the first film was shown. Such folk, being for the ...

... Q A A f B Pity Poor Shakespeare: The Cause and Effect of Comefs The IIV VI J J a Record of a Vagabond: Lawrentian Mania, Personal and Idolatrous By CECIL ROBERTS The opening of the new Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, which seemed destined to be known as the jam factory, despite the pre pared eulogies designed to drown the chorus of anger that swelled above the maddened crowd, produced ...

... Reviews by VERNON FANE IN his fourth volume of WAR MEMOIRS (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 21s.) Mr. Lloyd George continues with his period of War Premiership which was beginning when he left us with Volume III. Very quickly he warms to his subject, which is a survey of the theatres of War in 1917, the conflict of the Eastern and Western offensive protagonists (with the comment that nothing and ...

... By CECIL ROBERTS Miss Cicely Hamilton's Painstaking Survey of Russia as it is To-day Miss Winifred Holtby's Devastating Satire in Truth is Not Sober One of the greatest pleasures in life is to be in the company of a really intelligent person who has the power of reconstructing all that he has seen. This is a reportorial quality by no means common. I think the success which has greeted Miss ...

... Bernard Shaw not at his Best in The Simpleton of the Unex pected Isles: Yoshe Kalb Proves a Triumphant Success in Spite of the Language Difficulty By PHILIP PAGE ALMOST invariably does Mr. Bernard Shaw write a preface to his plays (often more in teresting than the play itself), and sometimes an epilogue, too. In the case of The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, which opened the Malvern ...

... Silent Talkies It Sounds Paradoxical, But Some Film Directors Seem Definitely Averse to Dialogue THE amount of space to be allotted to dialogue in film pictures varies with different directors. Some appear to think that speech should be reduced to a minimum-- a few wisecracks here and there-- but the main thing in a picture should be that it was moving. The hero is shown driving up to the door ...

... THREE HECTIC MONTHS IN TRINIDAD Arthur Calder-Marshall Gives His Impressions of the Troubled Island and Sums Up Its Problems By VERNON FANE IN GLORY DEAD (Michael Joseph. 15s.) Mr. Arthur Calder-Marshall has set out to give as comprehensive a picture of present-day Trinidad as a ruthlessly inquiring mind, a pronounced left bias and an effective prose sense can produce. He has divided his book ...

... A COUNTERBLAST TO CRONIN'S CITADEL In Dr. Bradley Remembers, Francis Brett Young Reveals, with a Simply Told Story, Some Worthy Features of Medical Life By VERNON FANE THE experien ces of a doctor have always sug gested admirable material to novel ists. Sometimes doctors themselves have outpaced fic tion by writing their own mem oirs, and combin ing straightfor ward accounts from their case ...

... : By CECIL ROBERTS The Life of Andrew Carnegie-- The Memory of an Extra ordinary Man receives Justice in an Engrossing Biography Far Vistas Adventures to Satisfy the Taste of even the Most Determined Wanderer Mayfair to Maritzburg An Autobiography by a Master of the Short Sketch Mr. Burton J. Hendrick made such an excellent job of The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page that I approached his ...