... THE OLYMPIA MOTOR SHOW October 17 to 26, 1935 Reviewed by A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M. I.Mech. E. NOWADAYS when so many new cars are not only announced but seen on the roads before the Motor Show, Olympia has been robbed of some of its gramour. On the other hand it may be considered to be a change for the better, perhaps not for the casual sight-seer, but certainly for the interested ...

... The ESSAYS of a BIOGRAPHER Mr. Lytton Strachey in his Happiest Vein and an Enthusiastic Biography Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS I am very doubtful whether it should be held for righteousness that Mr. Lytton Strachey has become the founder of a new school of bio graphy I can see him in the Immortal Fields being angrily arraigned by a host of dispossessed immortals. They will assert that, with a ...

... BOOKS-- The Village Blacksmith's Excellent Taste; An Ultra-Frank German Novel and an Equally Frank German Autobiography By CECIL ROBERTS Four hundred feet above my country cottage there is a village green such as Mr. Sheriff might choose for a play. That is, it is typically English; it stands, with roast beef, Rule Britannia and the weekly copy of Punch, for the American's idea of our ...

... AGE THESE be unromantic times for theatres, many of which, often after a century or more of varied history-- the history of any theatre is inevitably varied-- are transformed into the shape of things that have already come with but little comment. A shiny thing covered with Neon lighting and the names of film cele brities now takes the place among young Londoners of those haunts their fathers ...

... The World of Books Ford Madox Ford in Praise of Provence Shane Leslie's Reminiscences The Yearling A Novel to Remember, by Marjorie Rawlings By VERNON FANE IT is no use pretending that PROVENCE: FROM MINSTRELS TO THE MACHINE (George Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) is every body's book, because it is not, any more than Mr. Ford Madox Ford is everybody's author. For instance, Mr. Ford will have it ...

... 1 Drama of the Weei Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE Public Saviour No. 1 a Melodrama Full of Good Intentions but with Little Real Merit The Guitry's Provide Slight but Entertain ing Fare at Daly's The Russian Ballet Thrives in Spite of the Heat Wave THAT Mr. John Frushard had no intention of being blasphemous and is as decent and sincere a drama tist (if not, perhaps, a very skilled one) as ever ...

... And a Circus Attraction af the Coliseum Revi ew ed by PHILIP PAGE BALLET RUSSE de MONTE CARLO Five Special Camera Studies by Merlyn Severn of the Ballets now being produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane HOLLYWOOD has not, it seems, made the British public so familiar with the American idiom that certain American plays do not have to be anglicised before they are produced here. What, I ...

... The World of Books Reviewe cl by VERNON FANE THE classics among the love stories of the world are those which achieve a heartbreaking climax in re nunciation. The theme has inspired great music, immortal poetry, and splendid prose; human love in all its manifestations reaches its most dra matic intensity when the supreme sacrifice is demanded and can only be hymned by a Liebestod. If we have ...

... Drama and Films of fhe Week BY PHILIP PAGE IT may seem strange to find Miss Dorothy Sayers changing as it were from Lord Peter Whimsey to Saint Peter, and writing a play of deep religious significance (though not without its whimsicalities). Yet the change is not really surprising when one considers Miss Sayers' wide knowledge of many subjects, and the fact that, whether about divine beings or ...

... wflEII] The World of Books The Romance of the Waldegrave Sisters The Lure of Flying A Famous Antarctic Ship and the Story of John Brown of Balmoral THIS fascinating book, THE THREE LADIES WALDEGRAVE (Peter Davies. 15s.) tells the stories of three enchanting people and of their no less admirable mother. After the death of her husband, Lord Waldegrave, Maria was left with three young daugh ters ...

... I Thrillers and 1 The Theatre Barre Lyndon's The Man in Ha New A Revised Dracula j. Reviewed t Moon Slreet Impresses at the Presented at the Winter Garden Philip Page I CONSULTED a real qualified doctor (free) during an interval of the first performance of Mr. Barré Lyndon's The Man in Half Moon Street at the New Theatre, where it has replaced Johnson Over Jordan (migrated to the Saville). ...

... BOOKS Lawrence in Etruria Good and Bad War Books A Fine Biography and Iwo Outstanding Novels By CECIL ROBERTS All wanderers in Italy, in those happy days when the name and banknote of an Englishman commanded re spect, and we turned perhaps unsympathetic ears to com plaints about il cambio and il carbone, must have been speculative, sometime, about the lost Etruscan civilization. Here and there ...