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THE OBSERVER, STJNDAY, OCTOBER 7, THEATRE AND LIFE Radio THE FILMS By C. A. LEJEDNEr By IVOR BROWN By SIR W. BEACH THOMAS I HEN I was a very small reason, and the audience cries, and the film goes on, and still they don't and the audience child, on a wet 'summer holiday in Wales, I came By MAURICE COLLIS WE do. -not know how the British public and critics will receive an art which to.

of them is entirely unknown," writes. Mr. W.etter'giseusiri the catalogue of the? contemporary TN a small pool oi fane the merry becks that go tifmbllng down from the Cumberland Fells to the deep lake were collected in close contact a score, or two of elvers, a rare spectacle in that place. And they were engaged across a book that I was forbidden to read. I have forgotten its name, but I remember what it was about, because I took it oufsIde 'to'The hayloft ahd read it cries again, ana ne servant gin saves heX master from financial ruin, and even then they don't marry, and the film ends, and it's sad, nobly, irresis-, tibly, and commercially beautiful.

way of all fleh as well as the great assemblance of his own. Without entering on those comparisons with old giants, which lead, as a rule, to bickering without evidence, we can fairly claim that these are years of genuine greatness in acting and production of the classics. Should we not be using the new machinery at our disposal to record for all time the achievements of to-day? A scheme has been, suggested to me for a Swedish paintings on view the Wudenstein Gallery. How ex- in a manoeuvre that' seemed" both rare and amusing (as- Gilbert am wab3 THE second production at the New Theatre reminded me of one of those trial football games at Twickenham, "wherein, at half-time, certain of the players change sides. In Henry IV Part II, Mr.

Olivier moves from History to Comedy, and so History, minus his Hotspur, is very much the loser. Comedy with the brilliance of his shrill, nosy, consequential, little Justice Shallow, added to the splendour of Mr. Richardson's Falstaff is rendered stronger than ever. There remains, on the side of poetry and chronicle, the Crown episode in the Jerusalem Chamber1. Is it heresy, blasphemy, sedition, and apostasy all horrid sorts to murmur that this affair aiways drags and might as justly be sent to the barber's for a cut and trim through a soaking afternoon in the stuffy, inviolate, and somehow secrecy the hay.

It was about, Wink. It was a terr rible, passionate indictment of Drink. Everv Dersoh in the book Ovr: 21 CNpw Gallerwl is not ae artists TOW whic By W. E. WILLIAMS JT is time we sat up and took notice of British broadcasting, for it has lately been establishing one world's record after the other.

Its music programmes, in scope and quality, have put in. the shade anything achieved in this line by any other broadcasting system. It holds a similar supremacy in radio drama. In the last year the B.B.C.- has tackled at least -a dozen exacting productions of classical drama, a policy never even attempted by. any commercial" systepi in other lands.

If we British ware in the habit of proclaiming our triumphs we should to-day be telling the world how we made wireless history, last week, with'' the production of Hippolytus. Landmark According to the convention by which Britain has for generations been represented as the Caliban of European culture such a production could been -con so m'ncK-ar flbn' as a photographed play, and not so much a. play as a farcical conglomeration of inci-rlmitsjwhieh take nlace with a tre jar in na' fell, sooner or later, a victuh to ace witaisi si luxruut ox lav mendous burst of speed in a fixed happened to these people. They inrre no sucxutininiejxinwfl- lr no: such; If it had force; 'enough to -make any such-." challen'Be ludicrousi' ss-' a "cuational; tvles df Caiaint field "of The scene is a bungalow at an American Army 5a-w eiepnani5 ana green snakes. They were trampled Talking Film Library of great theatrical performances.

Obviously such a proposal at once raises difficulties. How much of each play should be shot Who would settle what to preserve? Who would pay? A representative committee could surely do the settling, and the chief ar-tor. of each approved production would choose the scenes for the camera. Possibly the film (say, twenty minutes each Yet to jdb ti i -Xbretearf that underfoot by the noble cab-horses leans -loon; uooosbid training camp, wnere a iaay novelist has followed her husband as he tries to qualify fr a commission. Since he is considerably one The lads are coming mc again, Weather Report i-; 'news' again, cars a.c on the road again, ami the day draws nearer for the return ot Kia-Ora fruit drinks.

orv.thanfo thi 01 teetotalers. xaey cringeo the snow outside glaring gin-palaces under threadbare shawls. They died miserable deaths in E5or-houses, muttering, The arches or Lyndhurst," or oi siz over 21, the age at which, he has been told, the, brain ceases to absorb knowledae. and since he gives BUUUUIU ait (Hi oyi puiiu-of arjrje'ar- ImjEVfirlatiohs ing to -trail OeaD: little evidence of having been a hmari in an English EnglU ance; an a an Ei house in lElish landscabe.doeB to whatever may have been the name of the desirable detached residence in which they were born, quick study at any time, ne nnas the going hard. To add to his diffi not look Quite the same-ai-aHwerlp issively culties, his old publisher comes final It was a terrible book, and the Jlrne the tascinateajoMerver 'wag forced -i j.i i.

of Uielgud, Kicnardson. or unvier, with colleagues) would sell well enough to cover what needn't be expensive. Possibly the Arts Council and British Council could be called upon for advice and help. Let the details wait THe thing should somehow be done. We owe it to posterity, and the fact that we would give so much to see Irving and Ellen Terry, Kean and Garrick.

in their topmost is strong reason for leaving to our children the figures and the voices of which to-day we are so justly proud, not least at the New Theatre. in his hut to-day rthey both in the saine-way, and that.iiB What gov AM expression in art Olke tte, 'the Swfdj3aw in modern French; 4jjanitl)S cori- tte eresswn of heic iafiMriitlpairttfBJuijthey have used those have been used here: and "elsewhere. Kia-Orau means Good Health to most terrible thing about it was its peculiar dullness. I remember that I went back to the farm, looking 'guilty but defiant, and read with great pleasure' and profit a couple of chapters of I he White Company. These The General of eels is roaring along and insists that ne writes a series of editorials for his old newspaper, which has been getting into trouble over its reports of the Big 3 meeting.

As you can Imagine, the lady novelist, although just a teeny-weeny bit over 21 herself, say 22, whisks things into shape; getting her husband through his pacifying the publisher, and putting the Big 3 on their feet again with a series Of strong, masculine articles, beginning with a powerful leader entitled World and Apple Pie." Over 21 is the sort of film so Ian wswe tansimllMly. that Its memories of a long ago holiday recurred to me vividly when There is not a single picture, in the exhibition which if.wauld-be impossible' to imagine an English Wfiajs -OfedoHieJ a was invited this week to review wonderi of tbepllfl, since its a Him about the evils of drink, en aruBi Duinnne were ne tour ins ceived only in Paris, Rome, Moscow, Berlin, or Vienna. But, it was in London, impoverished by six years of war and inhabited, so we are told to believe, by beer-sodden oafs, that this triumph was attained. Hippo-lytus was a landmark in broadcasting. It came over alive and immediate, as modern as to-day and a eloquent as eternity.

Val Gielgud wisely left Gilbert Mux-ray's translation to speak for itself, and his enabled us to enjoy a drama in which the language alone bore every burden of responsibility. Not only did it unfold the plot and differentiate the characters, but it also shifted the scenery, depicted the gestures, and selected the make-up. It proved again that a well-made play, whether written originally for a Greek stage, an Elizabethan or a Victorian, lives by language and not by" mechanics. On this and contrariwise, were secret was-piumbenot no many years ago by a Scandinavian seaman. We all know now that the tne sswedes to come here and paint, their pictures would blend titled The Lost Weekend (Plaza) with Ray Milland.

"The Lost Weekend is concerned with 48 hours in the life of a drunkard, who will go to any lengths of mothers breed in deep holes in intustinguishably with our tne Atlantic, ana their young set forth an an easterly journey, changing their shape as well as their size before at long last they reach the desired estuaries, and desert salt water for Up A Master THE SHOUTING DIES This is an unhappily small play for a big experiment: the opening of the Company of Four's high reign at the Lyric, Hammersmith, But a new version of The Trojan Women is to come next, and, at present, a company of six, produced by Mr. Murray Macdonald, does all that is possible for the improbable. Again a soldier returns this time to a small town -The only sensible anrjroach is tn consider how good as individual artists are the exhibitors. How far have thev digested what thev as any of the baronial and arclii-episcopal eloquence earlier on? Mr Nicholas Hannen goes nobly on the mingled paths of oratory and apoplexy, and Mr. Michael Warre stands by with fidelity Vet one is aching for Cotswold and its orchard-babble.

Is it simply that Falstaff and Shallow have queered the pitch for all subsequent batsmen? I put the explanation there. In any case, this second section of the great play is less than the first in its baronial narrative, but larger, far larger, in its hold on common things and country matters. Mr. Richardson's Falstaff continues, even grows, in its own magnificence, which is that of a surgr ing mind above a sagging paunch, a mind that takes its pleasurable exercise in a crackling festival of dry wit. This Falstaff lacks the liquorish eye, the smutch of sensuality.

To him Doll Tearsheet (played with great gusto and vehemence in broad Irish by Miss Joyce Redman, as it were O'Casey piled on Shakespeare) is not so much a trull as a toy. So that tremendous scene in the Boar's Head lacks something now; for its genius is in the medley of gross-ness and gentleness; the coarse and the tender flower together. The producer, Mr. John Burrell, has, in general, done well again, but he has made a shocking mistake in letting Doll smother her exquisite line about Falstaff patching up his old body for heaven. For the genius of this scene is in the sense of bells ringing to revelry and tolling for the end.

Death, as well as thej tapsters, are behind the arras. Sir John is half-way over Jordan; let him look to Doll and doomsday. What an inspired fangle it is of blatantly profane love and shy, immortal longings! This production gives most of it, not all. Perhaps the all can never be realised. Falstaff's recruits are wisely not made so grotesque as they often are; but still they are a shade too farcical.

Why should Gloucestershire be manned with freaks? then and degradation in order to secure a bottle of whisky, but is finally prepared to settle -for a typewriter, a brunette, and a chance to write a pulsating novel named The Bottle," Only Paramount," says Paramount, dared bring it to the screen, with, uncompromising frankness." It is frank; it is well made; it is un such rivers as the Severn they continue their journey in myriads (and have been netted in myriads have learnt froirrFrancet and put for Continental buyers). So touch iv oui in a particular ana forceful manner? Are there any of them oi tneir nistory is common Knowledge, but as to the rest" of the life-history of the fish astonish so personal and strone that compromising, in the sense that' may be called: mastprs in thpir ingly little has been recorded as it holds that a drunkard s. dream own right? (There are onlv eleven the result of direct otaservatinn. is a sufficient theme for drama altogether, each showingome five They distribute themselves sill tists. But to mytaste it is oust dull uncompromising principle was Hippolytus broadcast the other night, and we found that it needed no annotation nor any barrage of sound-effects.

To many whose notion of Greek drama is muddled up with images of antique ruins or pathetic ladies in' voluminous nightgowns, this production must have been a revelation. That is not, of course, to say that they all got it in 90 minutes. But I warrant that nwino, auu uuc uiaj sujjpuse mai they are the eleven best in Valley of Decision (Empirel. over the country. The biggest eel I ever saw was wriggling in the soft mud of a Midland pond at a long remove from any stream.

They are numerous in east-flow Sweden or, at least, eleven of the best.) My. impression is that Carl Kylberg can stand as a master in with- Greer Garson and Greeorv All good Peck, is no place for a critic. It in America and to the exposure of a Nazi who is wooing his Susanna. Lest we forget. Miss Honda Keane warns us that this is no time to forgive.

Her German finds like a very different personage that in one sense his future can be only his past entered again through another gate. A play of good intentions but of less substantial achievement, it is now acted simply and well by Mr. Gerard Hinze and Mr. John Slater as the rivals. Miss Margaret Johnston as Susanna, and Miss Joan Young and Mr.

Walter Martin as her elders, firmly set upon Main Street. J. C. T. nis own right.

His is texture is aoout a servant girl who loves her master, as he loves her. and painting of the very highest Quality in The Wise Vircin and of them got something, if they don't marry for some stupid nying jjuicnman. wimout only the taste lor more. suDtie rhyming verse may be an unfami seeing more of bis work it ik im. possible to tell whether his con ing streams such as the Ouse, and may be found in quantity in Fen ditches.

We know that when their time comes the mothers, make their way back to the Atlantic, reach the deep pit where they were born, and there perish, their duty done. The source of this knowledge is largely inference. The liar tune to listeners nourished on in which you might expect to see Rosalind Russell popping out from the cover of a type-writer, but actually it is Irene Dunne who plays the lady novelist, and very prettily, she does it. If there is any humour hidden in a line Miss Dunne can be trusted to worry it out and display it to advantage; and if -there is no humour, she is just as apt at concealing thf fact, a talent that has long kept her in high demand as a cinema actress. Alexander Knox plays the husband with all the animation of an agitated egg, and obligingly trips over the furniture when the lines are not quite as funny as they might be.

"Over 21 is likely to be a highly successful comedy. It will make an audience laugh, instead of keeping them for two hours hoping for the chance to laugh. It has set out to capture laughter and has won. Journey Together (Odeon) is a fine little picture, but it may have come two years too late to ern its full meed of appreciation. Produced by the R.A.F.

Film Unit, directed by John Boulting, written by Terence Rattigan, starring (if the Services will permit the word) Richard Attenborough, and introducing Edward G. Robinson in a minute part as a guest artist, it describes the training and first operational flights of an R.A.F. bomber crew, with particular emphasis on the unspectacular but crucial part played by the navigator. Journey Together is very good; observant, touching, reticent, witty, perceptively directed, gaily written, charmingly acted, and altogether right in fact and feeling. tent and feeling are on a level with the entrancing Quality of his naint.

the couplets of Tin Pan Alley, but I can testify that the group of slioes need a shine for. extra smartness All one dare say is that he strikes By OVR CORRESPONDENT one as a master. soldiers in whose company I heard this programme were moved and shaken by the experience and (most significant of all) said they OTS of us complain sadlv when Karl Isaksoh. thbufeh. It seems.

actual observation and record of dealt a yarborough, yet a C.M.F. a famous Swedish painter- anriears from the five works here shown as wanted to hear it again. corresponaent lu.u.) Has cause to remember a most happy issue out of arrivals and departures is more than scanty. Some of the eels at any rate must travel overland only a highly talented follower of sucn an annexion, were vul It is to the credit of the actors that thev all gave performances L-ezanne; and Isaac Grunewald of Matisse. Both Sven Erixson and like snakes.

There is no watery connection between inland ponds and brooks or between eastern rcagnar Sandberg seem more per nerable when North dealt: 10 even beyond our expectations of them especially Gladys Young as Phaedra's Nurse, Barry Morse as Hippolytus, and Deryck Guyler as sonal artists, and the first in THEATRE DIARY Tuesday. Wilfred Pickles succeeds Robert Donat in The Cl-hi For Love at the Westminster. Wednesday. Hamlet. by Shakespeare, Arts (Alec Clunea as Hamle.

Olga Lindo, Margaret Vines, Mark Ddgnam). Thursday. Fine Feathers, revue. Prince or Wales's (Jack Buchanan. Ethel Revnell.

produced by Robert Nesbitt). This Way to the Tomb! by Ronald Duncan: music by Benjamin Britten. Mercury (Robert Speaieht; unaccom- and western rivers. Because of such surprising absence of visual camping Place and the second in Children on a Swing are the Henchman. With this produc 4 J.

10, seen as accomplished colourists. tion, World Theatre has set a evidence about these mysterious creatures the incident of the struggle of the score or so of elvers in the beck seems to me lO.x.x, Head In Chalk standard which should make red-letter days of these monthly Mon: days of great drama. Can't Mr. Burrell see that Feeble, particularly, is a real character and that his superb lines about death are not to be thrown away in a comedy gabble? As for the rest, Silence was never more eloquent than in Miles Malleson's exquisite vacuity of mind and facade. Those who miss their Hotspur will get full satisfaction frrr.

he Justices. Meanwhile, Sir Jchn marches or rather stumps en, magnificently on. pondering the 10, I 8 1 more than usually interesting There is a verv Ktrikine head in cnaut, me emmney Sweeper, Were the elvers driven by a blind desire for the deeper tarns, that lie like set jewels, between the First Bout uy l-uti ueinens. ann vpra i panied choir of 161 Ootober Room Rag. at the Savillz 'Celia Johnson.

Joyce 1 Gionfell). Nilsson stands out as a handler nf 'la Black, Brvra Dtrk Brow Supreme for Qualify The new discussion-series 9 4 9, x. rocKs ot the UDDer Fells? But paint rather than a colourist, her noViir it ai even if we have information nn' Man in Society," made a clumsy Torch Tlueatre-- Colunln 3. start. The subject, of fitting the local history we shall not know whence springs this excel qualities of free brushwork which The biddine was.

shall I aav. people into suitable jobs, was well-nourished by expert evidence. we admire in Augustus John. sior spirit, is inaeea a strange While, it is very agreeable for device. little intriguing, so I merely record it without comment except that North expected to be 500-700 points down to save a certain rubber: out the presentation wa6 unconvincing.

The trouble lay in the apparent truculence of the The march of the elvers seems to us to be able to inspect good paintings from Sweden, it would be wrong to believe that these pictures can do more than add to our YOUR OWN CONCERTS FOR THE WINTER EVENINGS chairman, Francis Williams, of have as little reason as the immigration into England of butterflies, which do not themselves re whose more persuasive powers general knowledge of the narticu with a pen than with a. mike turn and for the most part leave a progeny that does not survive our winter. Suah problems are too something is saia on anetner page. lanties of -European modes. But could we ourselves do better if we The clash of personalities, real or sent to bweden five works bv each apparent, always falls nat on the oimcult tor us, but the difficult is entrancing.

of eleven good. English living painters? Perhaps, if we put in Sickert to balance their Isakson, who is dead, we could iust achieve North East South West 2 0 2 N.T. 3 4b 3 N.T.f!) 4 N.T.O Double 5 0 No Bid 6 Double All Pass West, after much thought, led his singleton trump. West North East South 1. x' A 2.

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Ph a balance in our lavour, but it is probably safer not to claim more than that we could do about as Chess By BRIAN HARLET Problem No. 1,414. By T. and J. Warton well.

CAN YOU SAY? Set by MORAY McLAREN The position now was 0 I. (a) What is a murex: and (b) What famous English poet brought one into a 2. What was the name of Dr. John son's cat, and what did he give it to eat? 10, 10, radio (remember the case 6f Joad versus Hogg), and it is better to reserve the arena for the impersonal conflict of opinion. It was in this sense that the first bout of the series missed its mark.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES HOME (342.1 a.O, News; 8.13, Parade: 8.20, Light Music: 8. SO, Records; 9.30, Service; 10.r6, Piano; 10.30,. Lrghi Music; II.O, Records; 11.45, Band; 12 15, Northern Orchestra: 11.60, Films; l.o. News; l.io, Country; I. 40, Light Music; 2.15, Garden; 2.30, Symphony Orchestra; 3.45, Dr.

Mlck-lem; 4.0, "Magnolia" (play); 4.40, Light Music; 5.0, Hawker of Morwen-atow," 6.15, Children; 6.0, News: S.20, Savings; 6.30, Light Music; 7.0, This I Freedom; 7.30, Newsletter; 7.45, Service; 8.25, Good Cause; 8,30, Lorna Doone; D.0, News; 8.1 Sir Max Beer-fa ohm: 8.35, Rhapsody; 10.3O, Epilogue; 10.38, Time For Verse; 11.0, News; II. 3, Violin and Piano; 11.35, Records; 12.0, Big Ben. LIGHT PROGRAMME (1.500 m. 2S1.1 8.0. News; 8.10, Summary; 8.15, Organ; 8.46, Light Music: 10.16, Family Favourites; 11.0, Light Music: 11.15.

Sport; 11 30. Records: 12.0, Service, 12,30, News; 12.40, Foreign News: 12.45, Light Music I. 0, Serenade: 1.45, Quiz; 2:15, Music Paradte: 3.0, "Lady From 3.30, -Light Music; 4.0, World Parade; 4.30, Brass Bands, 6.0, Hymns; 5.16, Journey to Romance; 8.0, Variety: 7.0, NeTs; Light Music; 7.45, Grand Hotel: 8.30, Itm-a, 9.0, Sunday Half-Hour; 9.30, Variety: 10.0, News; 10.10, Talk: 10.15, Organ, 10.46, Light Music; II. 15, Records; 11.60, News; 12.0, Big Ben. 3.

How many times did Frederick 4K, bib aaaf tne lireat of Prussia take bath in his life? 9.x The declarer now led another Diamond from dummy, and what should East do? It doesn't matter, does it? What Actually happened was: 4. If Mr. of Shakespeare's Sonnets was neither Lord Southampton nor Lord Pembroke, but a boy actor, what, probably, was his name? 5. During the laying season how many eggs does a normal fertile Queen bee lay a day? 6. Which David is North St David's-street in Edinburgh named after? Answers on pags 5) plays and mates in three White moves.

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Tourney N01 77. Also prizewinners in section Ji. Lore ana w. a. Howett.

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1.000 fund You would have doubled in his place, wouldn't you? is requirea. EVERYMAN CROSSWORD. No. 5 MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION Here devouring Time has blunted the lion's paws.

The Censor kept this play caged for so long that when it was set free after thirty years it had hardly a pounce or a roar left it could only move from the fierce light that beats upon the Shavian stage. Periodically a producer bids it roar again: but to-day the only speech with theatrical thrust is Mrs. Warren's confession. (the New Woman) is a holy terror; Frank, young man of the period, is an arch and Sir George confirms us in the Gilbertian belief that all baronets are bad. At the Torch, where players of the London Theatre Group producer A TCBAIKOVSKY XIGHT Polonaise Tchau.r.

Sir Adrian Boult B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra DB 3132 Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in Tchaikcisky MoisErwrrsCH and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 3410-13 Conducted by George Weldon Symphony No. 5 in Minor Tchad'inly Constant Lambert London Philharmonic Orchestra 3088-02 Variations on a Theme from Suite No. 3 in Dr.

Malcolm Sargent Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 1 nrnznzcEriipzni Zlj.yjZDggZDZDZ ACROS8 1 Isvestia? Ours (anag.) (6t 6) 8 Room that doesn't sound entirely intentional (9) 9 Form that even the best judges seldom study (5) 11 In R.L.S. again and in Saki too (8)- 12 The animal that goes father? (6) 14 Drinkable ham (4) 16 Revelling, like Berlin (2, 3, 5) 18 Happv without hay (10) 19 A danger to pedestrians. (4) 21 The opposite of 18 in a heap is all rot (6) 22 Lettuce and cress sandwiches, and angelica on the cake' (5, 3) BRAHMS ME1VBEI.SSOHX Mr. Eric Crozier) manoeuvre neatly on a table-cloth stage, Miss Olga Edwardes-has the right idea of Vivie, the snow-maiden, and the Sir George of Mr. Julian Somers was obviously born sneering.

Mrs. Warren needs more variety of tone than Miss Constance Fecher can command. J. C. T.

Overture Fdxoal's Cave (Hebrides') DOWN 1 One of those who approve of Silvia (5) 2-Seriqus fan (61 3 Newsy; see it (anag.) (10) 4 Her heart was sad in the cornfield (4) 5 Held by a sublieutenant who has lost his place 8) 6 The Lake Isle of (N charge for staying there?) (9) 7 Earns the right to arrange the musi-c a 1 programme (4. 3. 5) 10 Educ (12) 13 Fanciful, with a harmonious start (10) 15 The bird to pull your leg and part of your foot (9) 17 Not to depended on to make a silly ado (8) 20 The taste of squirrel is horrid (6) 22 Here's a crown; give it back to a painter (5) 24 Eager to reverse a TetrazxLLU Hi Sir Adrian Boult BrB.C. Symphony Orchestra DBaioo Violin Concerto in Heifetz and Boston Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Kovot.vh.- DB 5738-41 DBS Symphony No. 4 in A MrM KoussEvrrzxY Boston Symphony Orchestra DB 2603-7 Symphony.

No. i in Minor TcscAWna rN3.C Symphony Orchestra DB 6134-8 THEATRE NEWS John Shortly after Christmas Clements is to present (and appear ml a series ot plays the West End on similar lines lo tne uid Vic ana Haymarket seasons. He is opening with a new play, as vet untitled, about Warwick the Kingmaker, to be lis MastersVoice TnECORDlAc 7 LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION AND NOTES ACROSS. 1. Wish-ton-wish; 11.

Knee ot a 12, Wheelman; 13, Is-a-beHU; 14. Wake up Ihldden): 15. Elgar iRegali: 16, Ball IGray "Eton College 17, Clap (Peter Pan); 19. 25 Big enough to make vou very annoyed (5) .26 To give slight I trouble to save a Vergetle. 22.

Hartey: 25. Hyades iTenn. 27. New-tonic, fiillfiwcd after a few weeks by Dryden' Marpiagf la Mode (Kay Hammond as Melanlhal. Is Your Hoveymoo.n Rfally 'Duke York's1 rciches its Otr.h performance on Thursday A Night in Venue i Cambridge! has I passed 4110 and The ZB.

Dona winic is as good 29, Mere: 31. Shrof (by changing money): 55. Oraclet: 54, A-ganc: 55, Rocalllet; 36. Nine. 57.

Skimming-ton DOWN. 2. In-so-late "too much 1' the 3, Sea-bar (sea-swallow); 4, Hebe (H.MS 5. Twelvemo, 6. New-ark 7, Wear lA.YX il.

7); 8. S-meat-h (Smeel 9, Haul: 10. Unpleasance 11. Klnchinmortl 16, Bema-d: 18 Plate, 20. Glycogen: 21.

T-rent-ino 25, A-wrack; 24. Unhelm: 26. Dorrit; 30, Eros (Ant. CI iv 121 31, iMulSlim, 32, Fang (2 Hen IV. i OI.

Twist). iliitt greater (9) 27 Destination of an early Irish emigrant, who carried his own luggage (12) Nicht and the Mtbic iColiseuml 200 Fit For Heroes will continue its Embassy October 20. THE. GRAMOPHONE COMPAJiT LLiCTT.D, HA IflDDLllEX.