... DANCING AND REVOLUTION Borzoi. By Igor Scbwezoff. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.) This book, published for the second time on May 8,' is a re-issue of the autobiography which won the publishers' £1,000 prize in 1934 and was first published the following year. It is no less interesting now than it was then; it is a book which may well be destined for immortality, not only among the literature ...

... . MR. JEROME'S BOOK. A fine coloured reproduction of de László's portrait of Jerome K. Jerome serves as frontispiece to that versatile man's volume styled My Life and Times, issued at 16s. net by Hodder and Stoughton. To us what Mr. Jerome says about his Times is as interesting as are tho details of his Life proper, though there may bo varying grades of importance in tlie book. Certainly ...

... . SHAW WAS NAUGHTY THEN. Whether The works of Bernard Shaw called for a Standard Edition might seem to be an open question; but it has apparently been answered in the affirmative by the firm of Constable and Co. Even more doubtful would seem to be the urgency or great ance ot reprinting in extenso t1 dramatic eritieisms contributed hy G.B.S. to the Saturday Review i*' the eoursc of ...

... . FROM STAGE TO BAR. Under this odd title, showing how a man of the theatre became the landlord of a country inn, has been published at 1s., by the firm of W. J Parrett, Ltd., of the Isle of Thanet Gazette, the recollections of Mr. R. H. Lindo. which appeared in our columns after his retirement from Drury Lane. Some mention of this fact, might surely have oecn made after the re-issue of ...

... The Golden Ball. By Ruth Manning- Sanders. (Robert Hale. Ltd. 9s. 6d.) ^IMflS is an interesting story of the -A circus, which provides a back ground for the two main charac ters-- Alun Rees, who takes up circus life after being found by a family of travelling performers when he had run away from an unhappy home in Wales and Lotto, who comcs from circus stock, his father having been a Spanish ...

... THEATRE BOOKSHELF THE PRODUCER'S PLACE The Art and Science of Stage Management By Peter Goffin. (J. Garnet Miller, Ltd. 12s. 6d.) Apart from its value and interest to the student, this is a book which could be read with profit by those producers who seek only to express themselves, forgetting that the essential quality of any work of art is its homogeneity and that a stage production is more ...

... FROM KITCHEN TO FOOTLIGHTS p* VERY OTHER SUNDAY, by Jean Rennie (Arthur Barker, 12s. 6d.), is the auto biography of a Scots girl with ambition, a good education, a voice and character, who warned to be a singer on the stage but was obliged by circumstances to spend years as a domestic. She confesses to being a sensitive, highly-strung girl, who was never allowed time to give way to shyness or ...

... SAVOYARD MEMORIES WINIFRED LAWSON, once Ieading soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, has written a cheerful autobiography in A Song to Sing-O! (Michael Joseph, 21s.). Indeed, it abounds in merry anecdotes--many against herself--and all the while is redolent of a happy and good-natured personality. The book begins in 1922, on the first night of a revival of Princess Ida at the ...

... Year. She will continue to appear in The Remarkable Mr. Penny- packer at the New after the wed ding. I Maive Hewson is to produce 1 Wild Violets for the Biadford Players at the Alhambra, Bradford, in April. She recently undertook the production of Brigadoon for the Keighlcy Amateur Operatic Society. ...

... THE WHOLE CRAZY VISTA Theatrrcraft. By Haraid Mclvill. (RocUifT, 21s.) Described as The A to Z of Show Business, this book is certainly by someone who knows what he is talking about. Mr. Melvill is already well known as a scenic artist; he has also been an actor and stage-manager, beginning with raw, tremulous, tentative and wonderful seasons with the lerrys, and sampling everything from ...

... A FASCINATING book to read is Show Business and the Law (Stevens. 25s.). by E. R. Hardy Ivamy, LL.B., PH.D.. of the Middle Temple and a lecturer in law at University College. London. Mr. Ivamy has written his book in simple language, dividing his sections into The Script, The Cast, and The Performance. The compact volume covers problems besetting performers in theatrical, circus, radio, ...

... THE BALLET ANNUAL 1956 -A Record and Year Book of the Ballet. Edited by Arnold L. Haskell (A. and C. Black. 21s.) With this issue The Ballet Annual completes its first decade. It is a vivid record of the year, words and pictures capturing the magic of unforgettable nights pro vided by the Sadler's Wells Ballet, the Festival Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, to sary nothing of individual ists ...