... QA \f C Victorianism Comes into its Own Again: An Advertiser Advertises Himself: The Balance of Scarborough Contrasts with the Fanaticism of Upton Sinclair By CECIL ROBERTS An interest ing change in current thought during the last five years is marked by the appear ance of the final volume of the letters of Queen Victoria. This enormous task of editing the correspon dence and journal of the ...

... Sydney Howard as a Yorkshire Grocer Who Becomes a King The Passing of Sir Arthur Pinero and Julian Wylie 11 The Moon is Red An Unexciting Defective Thriller at Daly's Reviews by PHILIP PAGE IN 1911 I saw a pleasant play at the Royalty Theatre entitled Half-a-Crown, of which I remember but little beyond the fact that in it a charming young lady from musical comedy made her straight debut. ...

... Books By CECIL ROBERTS A History of the English Road a Book for Every Traveller: Germany Reborn General Goering's Utter Disregard of Historical Fact The Story of a Flight to Madras Despite the respect that I have for the utterances of Mr. G. K. Chesterton, I have always felt that in one saying he has added yet another to those wise-saws which impose a monstrous untruth on the intelligence. He ...

... DRAMA of the WEEK Ivor Novello's Latest Play Not Up To Standard Cecil B. De M i lie Butchers English History By PHILIP PAGE IMPROBABILITIES matter as little in comedy as they do in farce provided their entertain ment value is adequate. In his new play at the Haymarket, Full House, Mr. Ivor Novello makes a peer, who is President of the Divorce Court, marry an elegant middle-aged woman who runs ...

... Bergner Plays A Dual Role Stolen Life, a Film in The Comedy of Errors Vein, Lacks Plausibility Despile Czinner's Ingenious Direction Table Tennis Tops the Bill at the Coliseum THE film Stolen Life, which on its first night at the Plaza caused a certain amount of political hullabaloo, both inside and outside the theatre, is about twin sisters who are physically as alike as two peas, or, if ...

... CONCERNING BOOKS IN BOATS And the delicate task of Summer Reading. Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS Books. There are twelve of them, with their gay jackets in competition with the cushions piled at one end of the punt. With his face shadowed by willow branches, Harold Nicholson stares at me, a pipe in his mouth. Half asleep, I find myself wondering whether this pipe-in-the photograph fashion is not ...

... BOOKS-- Heroic Nowell Cowardice: Heroic Seelyisms Russia actually Regarded with Dispassion By CECIL ROBERTS The synonym for a bright young man is Noel Coward. He began, in the conventional manner of bright young men determined that their elders shall sit up and condemn by writing terribly shocking plays. So we thought, then. He trafficked in fallen angels and showed how they shook their ...

... History Rewritten The Puritan's Position in History Questioned Cromwell Challenged The Star Chamber and the Maypole The test of Divine Right Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS I remarked some weeks ago upon the fact that our modern writers are turning the history books upside down. It is not only Major Thomp son of Chicago who wants history rewriting, he merely objected to Mr. George of Windsor, and ...

... tmhb ind Films ntelligent Acting in Richard II at the Old Vic: Charles Laughton's njerprefafion of the Part of Edward Moulton Barrett By PHILIP PAGE IT is a mystery to me that Richard of Bordeaux a very good play indeed, should have run far longer than Richard II, a far better play dealing with the same theme, has ever run or is ever likely to run. The balance will possibly be restored in ...

... The World of Books Ian Colvin's Dramatic Life of Lord Carson A Fleet Street Tragedy A Brilliant and Disturbing Work on Modern Europe By VERNON FANE When the late Edward Marjoribanks, upon a fatal impulse, laid down his pen and left this book unfinished, its subject stood upon the threshold of great events. So begins Mr. Ian Colvin in Volume II of THE LIFE OF LORD CARSON (Gollancz. 15s.). And ...

... Morand and Maurois The Gay and Gallant Gordons Vitriolic Maestros The Uv-/ v^lxj Future Revealed Solomon and Balkis also Revealed By CECIL ROBERTS A delightful though inconsequential friend of mine came up to me the other day. Come along, André Maurois's here and wants to meet you. I was taken along the crowded lawn where waiters made a perilous passage with tea trays to meet the famous ...

... THE WORLD OF BOOKS Waller Duranty, an Eye-witness of Russia's Political Experiment Anne Lindbergh Recounts Her Experiences in North to the Orient'' By VERNON FANE FOR a good many years now Mr. Walter Duranty has been the resident correspondent in Moscow of the New York Times. I suppose that no foreigner, and certainly no journalist, can write upon Russian subjects with quite Mr. Duranty's ...