Harold Hobson: The Complete Catalogue 9781474472531

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Harold Hobson: The Complete Catalogue

1922-1988

Harold Hobson: The Complete Catalogue 1922-1988 Compiled by Dominic Shellard

KEELE UNIVERSITY PRESS

First published in 1995 Keele University Press Keele, Staffordshire This edition published by Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh © Dominic Shellard Transferred to Digital Print 2012 Composed by KUP Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CRO 4YY ISBN 1 85331 155 3

Contents

Acknowledgements

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Introduction Harold Hobson The Hobson Scrapbooks Authorship Tracing the Articles of the Missing Volumes Tracing post-I968 Articles

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How to Use the Catalogue

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Published Works Unpublished Manuscript

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Abbreviations of Newspaper and Magazine Publications

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The Catalogue

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Index of Named Plays and Playwrights in Catalogue

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Acknowledgements

Without the generous support of the following individuals and institutions, I would never have been able to embark upon, and then complete, this project. I am extremely grateful to: the Old Alleynian Endowment Fund; Bill Cater and the Sunday Times; my anonymous benefactor in the House of Lords; Charles Sanderson; St Peter's College; my tutor, Francis Warner; Thomas Eadie; Gilbert McKay; the Worshipful Company ofLeathersellers; Mary McGee and the Christian Science Monitor; Paul Grinke and Bernard Quaritch Ltd; Angus Easson; and Keele University Press. Any errors of fact in this catalogue are the author's own.

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Introduction

Harold Hobson This catalogue of the works of the influential theatre critic Harold Hobson has been prepared in conjunction with Harold Hobson: Witness and Judge (Keele University Press, 1995) - a book that evaluates the contribution that Hobson made to the evolution of twentieth-century British theatre. Harold Hobson: The Complete Catalogue represents the first publication to provide access information about the entire output of a major British theatre critic. The need for such a catalogue is pressing. Theatre historians frequently quote from theatre reviews as factual testimony, but rarely pause to consider whether a theatre critic's views have been moulded by editorial, political or cultural pressure; whether a critic has been consistent in his treatment of, say, an individual playwright; or, crucially, whether consistency is an essential virtue for a critic to possess. Examples from the corpus of Hobson's work illustrate this: he is well known as the champion of Beckett's Waiting for Godot when it made its British premiere in 1955, but was he always so passionate in support of Beckett's cause? He is credited with saving Harold Pinter's career in 1958, by eulogizing The Birthday Party, but was he always so loyal to Pinter? He feared in the early sixties that the abolition of the powers of the Lord Chamberlain to censor stage material would have a deleterious effect on the standard of British theatre, but did he subscribe to this belief after 1968, having seen the first production of Hair, for example? By utilizing the index at the back of this catalogue, it is now possible to locate his views on particular productions, and simultaneously to gain an overview of British theatre during one of its most vibrant and turbulent phases, since Hobson was present at almost every London first night of note between 1947 and 1976.

The Hobson Scrapbooks The catalogue contains a comprehensive bibliographical listing of the published work of Harold Hobson from 1922 to 1988. It was initially compiled from 28 A3 size scrapbooks that were kept by Hobson during his career and which were loaned to me by Paul Grinke of the antiquarian booksellers, Bernard Quaritch Ltd., to whom Hobson sold his library after his retirement. The scrapbook collection spans the years 1922 to 1968, with the exception of Volume 3 (December 23 1930 to September 18 1931) and 7

Volume 11 (July 17 1936 to April21 1937), which are both missing. Each article in the scrapbook collection bears the name of the publication in which it appeared, as well as the date on which it was published. Each individual volume is meticulously indexed by Hobson. Authorship

Doubts about whether Hobson or his father were responsible for the upkeep of the scrapbooks were raised in 1991, when Hobson claimed that his father had maintained the collection and that it had consequently ended in 1968 on his father's death. 1 If Hobson senior had been entrusted with the physical assembly of the scrapbooks, Hobson junior certainly provided the detailed index in a bold calligraphic hand that accompanies each individual volume. Evidence of this is provided in the index to Volume 22 (page 133). The creator of this index has attached to the title of an article that had appeared in the Christian Science Monitor of March 25 1958 the description, "Reference to Me", and a cross-check to page 120 confirms that the opening paragraph of Sydney Skilton's article, "And Talking Of ... ", does indeed refer to Harold Hobson: Presumably because I was not in [the] conventional evening dress of the dramatic critic the assembly of the Brighton and Hove Christian Science Youth Forum did not ask whether I was Harold Hobson. Kenneth Pearson's Sunday Times' article, "British on Broadway", that appeared on November 1 1959 is similarly noted in the index to Volume 24 (page 135) as containing a "Reference to me", and the theatre critic is duly referred to by Pearson in the fifth paragraph: Sometimes, as Harold Hobson has complained, the American musical is all style and little substance, and this is a fault which might be charged to Destry Rides Again, the Broadway re-creation of the famous film in which Dietrich plays the bar-fly Frenchie. It is legitimate to conclude, therefore, that Hobson junior catalogued the articles that appeared in the individual volumes himself.

Tracing the Articles of the Missing Volumes

Until May 1939, Hobson wrote primarily for the Christian Science Monitor, with article extracts syndicated throughout the United States (hence the large number of provincial American publications appearing in the catalogue between 1929 and 1939). He submitted theatre reviews of British productions and items of theatrical news (having become the paper's London drama critic in 1931 ), in addition to editorials, book reviews, educational articles, film discussions and pieces for the paper's "Home Forum" page. Many of these early articles were published anonymously, and the only evidence of authorship is provided by Hobson's acknowledgement of them in the early volumes of the scrapbook collection. This means that anonymous articles that appeared in the Christian Science Monitor within the 8

dates covered by the missing volumes 3 and II are impossible to trace, unless they appear on the computer print-out of Hobson articles that was produced for me in 1990 by the librarian of the Christian Science Monitor, Mary McGee. This happens rarely, since the print-out is extremely short; it ends at the year 1960 and it is not comprehensive, in that it itemizes only a very small proportion of Hobson's output for the Christian Science Monitor between 1931 and 1960. Signed Christian Science Monitor articles for the period of the missing scrapbooks, in addition to the years after 1968 (when the scrapbooks stop), have been compiled from the microfilm records of the eastern edition of the newspaper held by the University Library, Cambridge and the British Library, Colindale. Tracing post-1968 Articles From 1939, Hobson began to contribute articles to The Sunday Times, becoming the newspaper's theatre critic in 1947. He was also the television critic of The Listener between May 1947 and September 1951, and wrote on various occasions for Tatler, the Radio Times, The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement, amongst other publications. There is some confusion as to when Hobson ceased to be the London drama critic of the Christian Science Monitor. The librarian of the newspaper, Mary McGee, although able to confirm that Hobson's last published article for the newspaper appeared on December 3 1979 ("George Bernard Shaw: provoking") is unable to state when he relinquished the post of London drama critic. 2 Hobson's last entry in Whos Who states that he wrote for the Christian Science Monitor until 1974. 3 Since his articles cease to appear with any degree of regularity after the publication of "Edinburgh fest shows new pride" on September 13 1974 - with J. W Lambert contributing the vast majority of London drama reports from this time on - it is safest to conclude, in the absence of more definite information (there is no reference to this in Hobson's autobigraphy, Indirect Journey), that Hobson gave up the post of London drama critic at this time. What is incontestable is that Hobson submitted his last theatre criticism for The Sunday Times before his retirement as its theatre critic on August 1 1976, but he continued to contribute occasional articles on a variety of topics to several publications (notably Books and Bookmen, The Times Literary Supplement and Drama) until 1988. Non-Christian Science Monitor articles written after 1968, and therefore not appearing in the scrapbooks, have been compiled from the records of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Anonymous articles that were published in The Times Literary Supplement have been traced with the help of a list compiled from the newspaper's own records. 4 Notes Hobson, Harold, Interview with D. M. She/lard, Westhampnett House, Chichester, West Sussex (10/7/91). 2 McGee, Mary, Letter to D. M. Shellard (20/8/92). 3 Entry on Hobson, Sir Harold, 1992 Whos Who (London, 1992), p. 880. 4 This information was supplied in a Letter to D. M She/lard by David Horspool of the Times Literary Supplement (22/8/92). 9

How to Use the Catalogue

Below is an entry from the catalogue:

The Round Peg: the title of the article appears in italics in the second line of the entry. The system of capitalization used in the catalogue follows that adopted in the original article. A brief description of the content of the article appears beneath the title, if its theatrical nature warrants elucidation (n.b. if the article is a review of several plays, the titles of the plays discussed will be listed in addition to the names of the authors, if Hobson has stated them).

Jun l 1947 (ST) The Round Peg Reviews of "Edward, My Son" by Robert Morley and Noel Langley ("a very accomplished piece of playwriting"), "The Birdseller", and Reginald Beckwith's "Boys in Brown" The catalogue functions as follows: Jun l 1947: the date of the article appears on the left-hand side of the entry; if the date is in parenthesis, e.g. (Jun 8 1947), the article is not concerned with a theatrical issue.

The catalogue is succeeded by an Index of Plays and Playwrights, which indicates where an article written by Hobson about a particular performance of a play - and mentioned in the catalogue - can be located. At the front of the first volume there also appears a list of Hobson's published work in book form.

(ST): the publication in which the article appears then follows in parenthesis (the Table of Abbreviations of Newspaper and Magazine Publications precedes the catalogue on page 12).

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Published Works

Ralph Richardson, (London, Rockliff, 1958). "Introduction", Measure for Measure, Shakespeare, William, (London, Folio Society, 1964). "The First Night of "Waiting for Godot"", Beckett at Sixty, ed. Calder, John, (London, Calder and Boyars, 1967), pp. 25-28. "Introduction", The Ruling Class, Barnes, Peter, (London, Heinemann Educational, 1969), pp. v-vii. Hobson, H., Knightly P. and Russell, L., The Pearl ofDays, (London, Hamilton, 1972). "The Warner Requiem", Francis Warner: Poet and Dramatist, ed. Prentki, Tim, (Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1977), pp. 13-24. Indirect Journey, (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978). French Theatre Since 1830, (London, John Calder, 1978). Theatre in Britain, (Oxford, Phaidon, 1984).

"George Bernard Shaw", English Wits, ed. Russell, Leonard, (London, Hutchinson and Co., 1940), pp. 279-306. The First Three Years of the War, (London, Longmans and Co., 1943). The Devil in Woodford Wells, (London, Longmans and Co., 1946). Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. Selected Writings, ed. Hobson, Harold, (London, Falcon Press, 1948). Theatre, (London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1948). Theatre 2, (London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1950). "The Year's Playgoing", Years Work In The Theatre 1951, ed. Trewin, J. C., (London, Longman, 1951), pp. 1{}-13. Verdict at Midnight, (London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1952). "Harold Hobson" in "The Approach to Dramatic Criticism", An Experience of Critics, ed. by Webb K., (London, Perpetua, 1952), pp. 44-46. Theatre, (London, Burke, 1953). The Theatre Now, (London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1953). The French Theatre of Today. An English new, (London, George G. Harrap and Co., 1953). "The French Theatre in Britain", Theatre Programme, ed. Trewin, J. C., (London, Frederick Muller, 1954), pp. 231-245. International Theatre Annuals: Nos 1-5, ed. Hobson, Harold, (London, Vienna, 1956-60).

Unpublished Manuscript

Laurence Olivier (undated, but a reference in the manuscript to the television programme Brideshead Revisited and a letter rejecting the manuscript from Hobson's agents, David Higham Associates, dated 2/11187, indicate that it was written between 1980 and 1987. The manuscript is in the possession of Hobson's solicitors, Hubbard and Co., Chichester), fifty three pages of typescript, dedicated "To my oldest friend- Eric W. Ramsay".

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Abbreviations of Newspaper and Magazine Publications (AGJ) =Atlanta (Ga.) Journal (BAAH) =Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald (BB) = Books and Bookmen (BEM) = Birmingham Evening Mail (C)= Comment (CE) =Chickasha Express (CIP) =Chicago (Ill.) Post (CL) =Country Life (CMH) = Culuth (Minn.) Herald (CSM) = Christian Science Monitor (CTT) =Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times (DD) =Daily Dispatch (DMFP) =Detroit (Mich.) Free Press (DMN) =Dallas Morning News (DQ) = Drama - The Quarterly Theatre Review (DT) = Daily Telegraph (EG) = Egyptian Gazette (EN) = Evening News (FW) = Film Weekly (GB) =Glasgow Bulletin (HDE) = Huddersfield Daily Examiner (HE) = Hoyland Express (KCMS) =Kansas City (Mo.) Star (JMCP) =Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot (LC) = London Calling - The Overseas Journal of the British Broadcasting Corporation (LKHP) =Louisville (Ky.) Herald Post (LMCC) =Lowell (Mass.) Courier-Citizen (LP) = Liverpool Post (LPM) = Liverpool Post and Mercury (MAA) =Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser (MG) =Montreal Gazette (NJ) = Newcastle Journal and Northern Mail (NMPH) = New York City Motion Picture Herald (NVVP) =Norfolk (Va.) Virginia-Pilot (NYTM) = New York Times Magazine (0) = The Observer (OCT)= Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (P) =Plays

(PAP) = Plays and Players (POJ) =Portland (Ore.) Journal (POO) =Portland (Ore.) Oregonian (PP) = Palestine Post, Jerusalem (PRlJ) =Providence (R.I.) Journal (RNDC) =Rochester (N.Y.) Dem. and Chron. (RNTU) =Rochester (N.Y.) Times Union (RT) = Radio Times (S) =The Spectator (SACR) =Santa Ana (Cal.) Register (SDT) = Sheffield Daily Telegraph (SIS)= Soise (Idaho) Statesman (SMEU) =Springfield (Mass.) Evening Union (SNYH) =Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald (SOS) =Springfield (Ohio) Sun (SOOS) = Salem (Ore.) Oregon Statesman (ST) = The Sunday Times (STM) = The Sunday Times Magazine (STS) = Straits Times, Singapore (SWSR) =Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review (TAT) = Time and Tide (TC) = The Cricketer (TKC) =Topeka (Kansas) Capital (TL) =The Listener (TLS) = The Times Literary Supplement (TOI) = The Times oflndia {TOT)= Toledo (Ohio) Times (TST) = The Sheffield Telegraph (TT) = The Times (TTAB) =The Tatler and Bystander (TWN) = Toronto Weekly News (VCTD) =Visalia (Cal.) Times-Delta (WBFP) = West Bromwich Free Press (WC) = Wallasey Chronicle (WG) = Walthamstow Guardian (WP) = Washington Post (WT) = Woodford Times (WWVR) =Wheeling (W.Va.) Register (YEP) = Yorkshire Evening Post (YP) = The Yorkshire Post

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The Catalogue

words, wishes "merely to "oil the machine", we would rather prepare to instal an entirely new plant." The tone of their letter is summed up by the following passage: "We were particularly pleased to note that "the policy of the great Conservative Party is framed upon its desire and determination to obliterate such blots in our midst as still exist, to be a cause of misery and distress." As Mr Broadbent anticipated, this came somewhat as a surprise to us; but perhaps that was because we had hitherto judged the Party only by its actions. It had not occurred to us that it might have aspirations it is powerless to realise"

(Oct311922)(SDT) Letter to the Editor: The Municipal Campaign A strong attack by the eighteen-year old Hobson on the anti-Labour party bias in the reports of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, which drew the following reply: "Mr Hobson's ... statements ... are a mixture of nonsense and loose phraseology with which we need not concern ourselves" ((Jan 8 1923) (SDT) Current Topics) (Jan 8 1923) (SDT) Letter to the Editor: Uses Of Our Language An early indication of Hobson's sensitivity to language, explaining the linguistic difference in meaning between the sentences "Hydrophobia is a thing of imagination" and "X is a man of imagination"

(Nov 28 1925) (HE) Letter to the Editor: Hunting Hobson opposes bloodsports: "I have been on fairly intimate terms with typical members of the hunting set of Oxford University, and I can assure your readers that in every worthy respect, of character, of intellectual ability, and of good breeding, they are immeasurably inferior to the ordinary undergraduate of that institution"

(Sept 17 1925) (SDT) Letter to the Editor Written whilst an undergraduate of Oriel College, Oxford, together with Eric Ramsay of Sheffield University, in reply to the call by H. W. Bowers-Broadbent made in a letter of Sept 15, the East End Organiser of the Sheffield City Conservative Federation, to public school men and women, to "come forward and take their proper place in the life ... of their country, and leaven the national spirit with their influence to the benefit of all alike" - i.e. join the Conservative party. Hobson's disdain is complete and reveals a passionate socialism: "Our industrial and social system is obsolete: it does not need overhauling or improving - it needs replacing"

(Jan 1 1926) (HE) Letter to the Editor: Hunting Follow-up Jetter: the article "in defence of the detestable pastime of hunting was utterly callous and did not contain a single decent or humane sentiment" May 20 1927 (SDT) Letter to the Editor: The Problems of Galsworthy 's "Windows" Hobson questions the interpretation ofGalsworthy's "Windows" at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre by the paper's drama critic and provides his own (and earliest published) criticism. He concludes with a recommendation: "I should like to congratulate everyone concerned in this production most heartily. It was an admirable play, admirably produced, and admirably acted. I hope that Mr Wray will soon give us more like

(Sept 22 1925) (SDT) Letter to the Editor: The Call to the Public School Men H. W. Bowers-Broadbent's second letter had accused Hobson and Ramsay of wishing to abandon constitutional government. Here, they deny this and equally deny that they are adherents of either the Socialist or the Communist parties. However, whereas Bowers-Broadbent, in their

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it. After all, a repertory theatre should be a place for intelligent people; and "The Truth about Blayds" would not tax the brains of a moderatesized rabbit. Why not Chekhov? or Toller? or O'Neill? or "The Man with the Flowers in his Mouth"?"

(Jan 16 1929) (CSM) Book Review "This Film Business" by R. P. Messel (Jan 21 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Legislators or Lackeys? Members of Parliament should not always be bound by the views of their constituents

(Oct 27 1927) (CSM) Letter to the Editor: My First Term at Oxford A strong defence of the Oxford system of education

(Jan 28 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Make Room for the Classics The study of the classics is culturally superior to that ofNatura1 Sciences

(Dec 13 1927) (CSM) Impartial History Impartiality is impossible for a historian in spite of the desire of the British Parliament for impartial history teaching

(Jan 31 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Merging British Steel Applauds the merging of steel firms (Feb 1 1929) (CSM) Influence of the Newer English Universities Analysis of provincial universities

(Feb 17 1928) (CSM) An English Boy at Princeton A review of John Benn's "ColumbusUndergraduate", written when Hobson was at Oriel College, Oxford

(Feb 5 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Penny Post On the likelihood of a reduction in the cost of a stamp

(Jan 7 1929) (CSM) Editorial: What to do With the Miners? Uneconomic pits should be closed and laid-off miners absorbed into other industries

(Feb 5 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Prospects for the Channel Tunnel Looks forward to its imminent(!) construction

(Jan 8 1929) (CSM) Why Read History? "The value of History, from a political point of view, does not lie in the provision of ready made solutions to political problems, but in its tendency to develop a cast of thought that is able to discover such solutions for itself"

(Feb 9 1929) (CSM) Editorial: "The Vineyard of the Lord" On the work of the Oxford Preservation Trust (Feb 15 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The West Studies Arabic On the importance of learning from the east (Feb 16 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Examinations Examined Considers their advantages and disadvantages

(Jan 9 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Rail and Highway Competition The railway's reaction to the threat of the motor car in Sheffield

(Feb 19 1929) (CSM) Editorial: A Revolution in Industrial Finance On the rationalisation of the cotton industry

(Jan 14 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Paying Cash For City Improvements Sheffield Corporation's Land Purchase Fund (Jan 15 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Morality and Art Literary merit is not a sufficient defence against the charge of immorality in a book

Feb 19 1929 (CSM) Editorial: The Legend ofFaust On the lOOth anniversary of Goethe's "Faust", Hobson examines the way the legend has changed through the treatment of Marlowe, Lessing and Goethe

(Jan 15 1929) (CSM) The Prospects ofPolitical Philosophy Historical thinking can help the problems of politics

(Feb 23 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Historical Spadework On the difficulty of evaluating the importance of archaeological finds

(Jan 16 1929)(CSM) Editorial: New Demands Upon Democracy An understanding of foreign political cultures is vital for democracy

(Feb 27 1929) (CSM) Editorial: College Degrees and Successes Pertinent article on the relationship between a university degree and the business world 14

(Mar l 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Skill in Relation to Industry Skill is still required despite increased mechanisation

(Apr 22 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Stonehenge Is Saved On the scheme that prevented Stonehenge falling into the hands of property speculators

(Mar 2 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Scottish Nationalism The Scottish Nationalist Party needs to broaden its base and adopt an economic policy

(Apr 23 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Peace and Economics War is morally wrong, wasteful and uneconomic

(Mar 6 l929)(CSM) Book Review "William, Prince of Orange", by Matjorie Bowen

(May 1 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Wordsworth and Browning Wordsworth in relation to Browning's "Lost Leader"

(Mar 12 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Assisting Would-Be Emigrants On ways of helping emigrants to Canada assimilate

(May 3 1929) (CSM) Question of Correct Speech Leading writers and the best educated exhibit the finest grammar

(Mar 19 1929) (CSM) Editorial: A Victory for the Middle Ages Norwich v Salford, art v utility

(May 3 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The British Film Industry On the implications of the "talkies" for silent films

(Mar 20 1929) (CSM) Book Review "The Travels and Settlements of Early Man" by T. S. Foster

(May 7 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Democracy Enters World Politics The "Kellogg Pact" May 14 1929 (CSM) Editorial: Drama in the Schools Drama is an "intellectual force ofthe first order" but not yet on the school curriculum. Hobson illustrates the value of drama in schools (it encourages public speaking, remedies shyness, illuminates English Literature and creates a theatre-going public)

(Mar 21 1929) (CSM) Book Review "The History of the Privy Council" by Sir Almeric Fitzroy (Mar 30 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Popular Musical Taste Middle class audiences will appreciate classical music when they are exposed to it (Apr 5 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Nations Are Like Individuals On the identity and morality of States

(May 17 l929)(CSM) Bringing Wembley to the Microphone On the novel way the BBC found of beating an FA broadcasting ban during the FA Cup Final

(Apr 9 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Freedom of the Press Some restrictions are necessary

(May 24 1929) (CSM) Sheffield Plate Inventor Honored (Jun 8 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Solving Traffic Problems The dangers of congestion and noise

(Apr 11 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Britain's Need for Better Roads Comprehensive national plan needed (Apr 15 1929)(CSM) Editorial: English Dialects Need to be preserved

(Jun 10 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Punishment of Crime Humane treatment and greater use of probation will reduce prison numbers

(Apr 17 1929) (CSM) Editorial: What! No Detective Stories? Hobson claims that this neglected art form will revive

(Jun 12 1929)(CSM) Editorial: The Literary Class List "To laud one writer by depreciating another is but a poor method of giving praise"

(Apr 22 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Getting Rid of the Slums Survey of different clearance schemes

(Jun 13 1929) (CSM) Editorial: London Fetes Its "Bobbies" The centenary of the founding of the police 15

(Jun 17 1929) (CSM) A Different Kind ofSchool Describes the class of thirty four that a nineyear-old boy teaches in the evening

(Jul24 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Hail the Classics Classical studies in English schools are flourishing

(Jun 21 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Earning While Studying Ways of funding a university education

(Jul27 1929) (CSM) British To Harmonize Bridges With Scenery (Jul27 1929) (CSM) School Board Plans To Abolish Home Work

(Jun 22 1929) (CSM) Editorial: External Degrees On the superiority of a university degree over an external one

(Jul27 1929) (CSM) Duke ofNorfolk Makes Gift ofPark

(Jun 24 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Radio in the British Election Radio speaking calls for a new technique of oratory

(Jul30 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Grand Opera in England Regrets the projected closure of Covent Garden three years hence

(Jun 28 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Standard ofPublic Oratory Now lower and more sober

Jul30 1929 (CSM) "Lazzarro" Hobson's first review; Pirandello 's new work performed by the Huddersfield Repertory Theatre, which has a tradition of Pirandello productions. It was enthusiastically received, but did not include "too varied a lot of ideas", as in earlier Pirandello. Actors included Donald Wolfit, Edith Sharpe and Andre Van Gyseghem

(Jun 29 1929) (CSM) Editorial: England's Provincial Revival Last General Election based on reasonable discussion (Jul6 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Reason Comes to Politics In the General Election

(Aug I 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Prayer Book Again On the constitutional implications of the Revised Prayer Book

(JuliO 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Unpleasant Job Manual work is just as important to society as intellectual activity

(Aug 2 1929) (CSM) Library Reading Club Built Around B. B. C. Radio Lectures Study groups in Sheffield being formed around educational broadcasts

(Jull6 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The World Looks To Its Trees Reforestation in Norfolk (Jull9 1929) (CSM) Editorial: How England Views the Talkies Talkies will flourish after initial setbacks

(Aug 3 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Supply ofJudges in Britain Promotion to Judge often involves financial sacrifice

(Jul 19 1929)(CSM) British Nonsmoker Acts in Self-Defence Creation of a National Society of Non-Smokers

(Aug 5 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Reviving British Religious Music Church music disproves the notion that the British are unmusical

(Jul22 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Milestones in Women's Scholarship The Jubilee of Somerville College, Oxford

(Aug 7 1929) (CSM) Sheffield Lessens Smoke Nuisance Measures to reduce smog

(Jul22 1929) (CSM) England Preserves Longshaw Moor National Trust buys the Moor

(Aug 8 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The British Water Supply On the need for greater cooperation on the part of the water authorities and more restraint on the part of the consumer in the face of the worst drought since 1866

(Jul23 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Lords of Parliament Reform of the House of Lords (Jul23 1929) (CSM) Sheffield Builds City Hall 16

(Aug 9 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The New-Style Apprenticeship Education needs to be more closely linked to the needs of industry Aug 15 1929 (CSM) Editorial: Politics, Drama and the Press "Today the theater as a political agent is outdistanced by the vast resources of the cheap press" (Aug 16 1929)(CSM) In Defence ofLegends in History On the use of legends in stimulating historical interest (Aug 20 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Supposed Right of War The pact of Paris for the Renunciation of War as an instrument of national policy (Aug 21 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Minerals and World Peace The British Empire and the USA can guarantee peace by refusing to export their mineral wealth to belligerent countries (Aug 22 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Talkies and the British Language The function of language is to communicate and "talkies" pass the test

(Sept 4 1929) (CSM) Untitled On the secretary of the Ancient Cutlers Company (Sept 6 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Give the Sculptor a Chance Defends Hardiman's statue of Earl Haig (Sept 6 1929) (CSM) Dovedale, England, Proposed for Park (Sept 7 1929) (CSM) Payment Suggested For Heads Of Cities Sept 11 1929 (CSM) Jew Suss Review of this work by Ashley Dukes, a tragicomedy based on episodes from the novel by Lion Feuchtwanger. "It does not matter that the play fails to make the impression of profound mastery of the petty politics of a small German state that the book conveyed, but it is regrettable that it does not reveal more convincingly the transformation of Siiss's character." Stars Mattheson Lang, Peggy Ashcroft ("a beautiful interpretation") and Frank Harvey (Sept 11 1929) (CSM) Prince Presents Vellum to Whitby

(Aug 26 1929) (CSM) Leeds-Goole Canal Would Cost £10,000,000

(Sept 14 1929) (CSM) Book Review "Wolsey" by A. F. Pollard

(Aug 27 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Mental Background ofHistory The idea of equity between man and man will be the dominant idea behind twentieth century teaching

(Sept 16 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Fiction and the Public Libraries Libraries should promote the reading of novels (Sept 17 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The Good Old Today A lowering of standards of university graduates is inevitable (and acceptable) given the increase in student numbers

(Aug 27 1929) (CSM) English Merrymaking of Olden Days Recalled In Bowling Tide Holiday (Aug 28 l929)(CSM) Editorial: Britain Contribution to Sport On the lack of all-round sportsmen and of playing fields

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Sept 18 1929 (CSM) Editorial: Drama Over Radio "effective drama can be written only if due regard is paid to the conditions of production", radio drama will probably be rhetorical, contain few characters and be independent of scenery like Greek drama

(Aug 28 1929) (CSM) Sheffield Library Gets Picture Gift (Aug 31 1929)(CSM) Sheffield Schools Observe Peace Day (Sept 3 1929) (CSM) Editorial: The BBC and English Eloquence Applauds a series on fifteen great pieces of public speaking

Sept 20 1929 (CSM) Editorial: Is the Revue Becoming an Art? Gilbert and Sullivan have been superseded by Viennese composers and jazz, but two C. B. Cochran revues have breathed new life into British Musical Comedy- "This Year of Grace" and "Wake Up and Dream", starring Noel Coward and John Hastings-Turner

(Sept 4 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Why Emigration Is Unpopular Despite current levels of unemployment emigration is regarded as a badge of failure 17

(Sept 21 1929) (CSM) Book Review "Before the Bluestockings" by Ada Wallas

(Oct 11 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Literature Wins The Worker Now the most popular subject amongst British workers who choose to study

(Sept 21 1929)(CSM) Book Review "The Eighteen-Seventies", edited by H. Granville Barker

(Oct 11 1929) (CSM) Rivers Diverted To Fill Reservoir In the Derwent Valley

(Sept 23 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Relieving Juvenile Unemployment Instruction centres are needed

(Oct II 1929) (CSM) Sheffield Finishes Job Started in 1869 (Oct 12 1929) (CSM) The Armchair Sportsman On the entertaining transmission of the Schneider Cup

(Sept 25 1929) (CSM) Mary Queen of Scots' Refuge Sold (Sept 27 1929) (CSM) English Town Acts To Aid Unemployed

(Oct 14 1929)(CSM) English Colliery Exhibits Pictures

(Sept 27 1929) (CSM) Germans To Make Silk At Doncaster

(Oct 17 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Britain Newest Universities Analyses the growth of universities in the last 100 years

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(Sept 27 1929) (CSM) New Bridge To Link Tyneside With North (Sept 28 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Regional Radiocastingfor Britain

(Oct 18 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Ahoy, Port ofLondon! On the port's improvements

(Oct I 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Democracy and the Crown Some loopholes in the constitution

(Oct 19 1929) (CSM) British Surprise Programs On the delights of the "Surprise Items" - unannounced radio programmes put out by the BBC

(Oct I 1929) (CSM) Oxford Man Writes Companion Article To Mr Piers Of Harvard On the use of a specialised honours degree

(Oct 19 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Killing for Sport: What Defense? Sassoon's "The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" does not owe its beauty to the hunting scenes but to its descriptions of rural customs; hunting in Britain is now on the defensive

(Oct 3 1929)(CSM) Rare Birds Use Sheffield Sanctuary Oct 5 1929 (CSM) New British Revue "The House that Jack Built" by Ronald Jeans and Douglas Furber, "strong in the excellence of its comedy". Starring Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge

(Oct 21 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Controversy for the Radio Applauds the BBC's decision to lift its ban on programmes that propagate controversial opinions

(Oct 7 1929)(CSM) Editorial: Were the Old Days So Good? On the conditions of manual labour

(Oct 23 1929) (CSM) Educational Value of Cinema is Tested Report on university activities, including the assessing, by Leeds University, of the educational worth of the cinema

(Oct 9 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Winning Land From The Sea Coast erosion

(Oct 25 1929) (CSM) School Meals Called "Social and Civilising"

Oct 9 1929 (CSM) Woman Heads Theatre Zara Isaacs at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre

(Oct 25 1929) (CSM) Noted Work For Leeds

(Oct 11 1929) (CSM) Editorial: Democratizing The British Cabinet Politicians are now less aristocratic

(Oct 25 1929) (CSM) Big Development Plan For Yorkshire 18

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(Nov 19 1929) (CSM)

England Hears Prime Ministers New York Arrival

Editorial: Labors Gain at Oxford

Radio broadcast of Ramsay MacDonald's New York arrival deemed a success

Reports favourably on the election of a socialist to the Presidency of the Oxford Union

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(Nov 19 1929) (CSM)

Sheffield Builds Carbonizing Plant

Woodpecker Puts Town In Darkness

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(Nov 21 1929) (CSM)

New Industries Aid Displaced Workmen

Editorial: A Technique for Radio Debates

(Nov 4 1929) (CSM)

On the introduction into radio discussions of an interlocutor

Trent River Plan Aids Employment

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(Nov 4 1929) (CSM)

Leeds Buys Chain For Lady Mayoress

Editorial: Manners, Old and New

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(Nov 5 1929) (CSM)

Editorial: Britain s Waterway Revival

Editorial: Britain Looks to Its Parks

The history of canals, given recent plans to expand the network

Champions the idea of a National Park scheme and suggests that Dovedale ought to become one

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(Nov 5 1929)(CSM)

Editorial: Giving Schoolmasters a Square Deal

Goose Fair, Held in Nottinghamshire for the 640th Time, is Big Success

A plea for the better treatment of the schoolmaster's profession in art and literature

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(Nov 30 1929) (CSM)

Coal Owners Spend £100,000 on Welfare

Value of a University Training

(Nov 6 1929) (CSM)

Social and moral training is as important as intellectual training

Yorkshire is Locale ofReafforestation (Nov 7 1929)(CSM)

(Dec 3 1929)(CSM)

Ancient Roman Lamp Found in Sheffield

House Manager as a Career

(Nov 8 1929) (CSM) English Textile Stoppage Averted

On the attraction of this work for women (Dec 4 1929) (CSM)

(Nov 9 1929) (CSM)

Editorial: "Is History Repeating Itself?"

Poor Student Pedals 400 Miles, And Wins

On the historical precedent that the USA provides for a United States of Europe

Student cycles from Burnley to London to pass the University matriculation examination

(Dec 7 1929)(CSM)

English Lessons Via Radio

(Nov 11 1929) (CSM)

Editorial: Statues, Cables and Electric Lights

(Dec 7 1929) (CSM)

There is no need to be apprehensive about the aesthetic effects of the coming electricity pylons

Industrial Relations Chain Is Endowed (Dec 7 1929) (CSM)

(Nov 13 1929)(CSM)

Work on Sheffield s Schools Is Progressing

Editorial: A Poet Laureates Duties Defends the comparative silence on official occasions of the Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges

Dec 14 1929 (CSM)

Mr Shaw Also Spoke On the "Points of View" programme

(Nov 15 1929) (CSM)

4,372,138 Persons See English Fair

(Dec 20 1929) (CSM)

North east coast exhibition

Editorial: Colleges, Character and Careers University offers more than intellectual training

(Nov 16 1929) (CSM)

Editorial: England s Stained Glass

Dec 21 1929 (CSM)

"Madam Plays Nap"

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Review of this work by Brenda Girvin and Monica Cosens. Comedy about the French Revolution, starring Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, Lawrence Hanray, A. L. MacLeod

Dean Inge Radiocasts (Nov 19 1929) (CSM)

Yorkshire Aiding Its Unemployed 19

(Dec 23 1929)(CSM) London Extending International Chair

superseded the voting by MPs according to their consciences

(Dec 24 1929) (CSM) Editorial: For More Children sMuseums Easier to stress social history by models than textbooks

(Jan 15 1930)(CSM) Higher Pay for British Statesmen Purpose of Labor Investigation Committee to investigate ministerial salaries

Dec 31 1929 (CSM) Editorial: The State ofLondon Drama Theatre is surviving the threat of the talkies because of its greater spontaneity and specialised audience. London managers are putting on bold plays and the general standard of acting is high, even if nobody stands out

Jan 20 1930 (CSM) Editorial: The Revival ofPantomime History of clowns and Harlequinade Jan 20 1930 (CSM) New Play Planned In Shavian New Year News elicited from a letter to a Sheffield school (Jan211930)(CSM) Editorial: Modernizing British Ports

(Jan 2 1930) (CSM) New Children Library in Sheffield, England

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(Jan 22 1930) (CSM) Exchange of Students Sheffield/Berlin

(Jan 4 1930)(CSM) Editorial: The Overwork ofParliament A cure for all-night sittings might be the greater use of committees to discuss and vet legislation

(Jan 24 1930) (CSM) Armorial Bearings Granted To ]arrow (Jan 25 1930) (CSM) Britain s Year in Radio Review of the BBC Yearbook which testifies to the success of the Corporation

(Jan 4 1930) (CSM) Radio for the Intelligentsia On the successful series of national lectures broadcast by the BBC

(Jan 25 1930) (CSM) Radio in the Universities A radio broadcast on the mining industry was used as the basis of a lecture meeting at Sheffield University

(Jan 4 1930) (CSM) Landing Places Urgent Need OfAir Leviathans On the commercial viability of airships (Jan 7 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Art, Architecture, and the State The Office of Works is justified in getting one of its own men to design a public building in Edinburgh

(Jan 25 1930) (CSM) Book Review "England in the Nineteenth Century" by A. F. Fremantle (Jan 27 1930) (CSM) Editorial: British National Parks Again Further thoughts on suitable areas for protection

(Jan 8 1930) (CSM) Additional Land For Park (Jan 10 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Propaganda and Art Propaganda and art are entirely compatible: "the man who feels that he has a message to give to the world seems more likely to write a good play or a good novel than one whose aim is to amuse or to satisfy some academic ideal of literary style"

(Feb 1 1930)(CSM) A New North Regional Station In Manchester (Feb 3 1930) (CSM) Sheffield Beats "Swords " and "Spears " Into Gramophone Needles and Cutlery

(Jan 11 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Runnymede, Historic and Scenic On the significance of the Magna Carta, now that Runnymede has been saved from commercial development

(Feb 8 1930) (CSM) Book Review "The Third Mary Stuart" by Marjorie Bowen

(Jan 13 1930) (CSM) English Town Plans Aid For Unemployed

(Feb 8 1930) (CSM) Building B.B.C. Radio Programmes An analysis of readers' letters in the Christmas edition of the "Radio Times"

(Jan 15 1930)(CSM) Editorial: Party Voting in Parliament Laments the fact that strict party voting has

Feb 11 1930 (CSM) Editorial: Helping the Little Theaters Applauds the recent parliamentary proposal to 20

permit municipal authorities to levy a penny rate for the assistance of repertory theatres, since J. T. Grein's "Independent Theatre" introduced Shaw, the Stage Society discovered GranvilleBarker, Birmingham Rep. first put on "Back to Methuselah" and Manchester Rep. gave many contemporary actors their first break

(Mar 1 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Democracy and Economic Experts The establishment of an Economic Advisory Council is a fine idea but experts should not be allowed to determine everything (Mar 8 1930) (CSM) Editorial: The Power of Public Opinion On the preservation of Syon park

(Feb 12 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Scotts Last Novel There seems no reason not to publish the recently sold manuscript of the unfinished "The Siege of Malta"

(Mar 8 1930) (CSM) Book Review: The Theory ofNationalism "Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the Nineteenth Century" by Alfred Cobban

(Feb 15 1930)(CSM) This Business ofDegrees On the call for a reexamination of the pass and honours system of degrees

Mar 15 1930 (CSM) Shakespeare in Modern Dress Review of modern dress versions of "Measure for Measure" by Cambridge Festival Theatre and the Sheffield Playgoers, a play that "falls so completely to pieces halfway through, and shirks so badly the questions it raises, that it is rarely played at all". Its recent success indicates that "a modern dress production reveals points of dramatic significance that the traditionally costumed presentations fail to make clear". In Sheffield, the costume was modern English, in Cambridge European: only local costume can "break down all barriers to understanding set up by an artificial and antiquated mode of costume". Starred Kathleen Jones as Isabella

(Feb 15 1930)(CSM) Trade Trek From North In Britain Denied North/south economic divide denied (Feb 17 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Pooling Political Wisdom An example of consensus politics which may herald a new trend (Feb 18 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Democracy and British Schools To end the dichotomy between public and state schools, the former should no longer merely be for the benefit of the rich

(Mar 25 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Per Ardua ad Astra The amazing career of the recently retired Oxford Professor of Philology, Joseph Wright

(Feb 18 I 930) (CSM) Editorial: Help for the British Farmer Increased bargaining power is needed for the farmer

(Mar 26 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Poetry That Pays Poetry at last appears to have become a renumerative profession

(Feb 21 1930) (CSM) Radio and the Conference The radio broadcast of the opening of the naval conference in the House of Lords

(Mar 29 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Support for the Channel Thnnel On the proposal (of which Hobson approves) to build a Channel Tunnel

(Feb 25 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Church and State in England

(Mar 29 1930) (CSM) Burns Celebration A radio broadcast about Robert Burns

(Feb 26 1930) (CSM) Editorial: What is Parliament? A constitutional (and historical) examination of the question (Mar I 1930) (CSM) Premiers and Poets Stanley Baldwin's speech about Scott

(Apr 1 1930) (YP) Historic Fires- A Literary Lacuna On Tokyo's recovery after the 1923 earthquake and instances of fires featuring in great works of literature

Mar 1 1930 (CSM) G.B.S. and National Theater Review of Shaw's radio broadcast in favour of a National Theatre

(Apr 2 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Britain and the Referendum On Baldwin's promise to hold a referendum on Empire Free Trade, if re-elected 21

(Apr 3 1930)(CSM) Newstead Abbey, Former Home ofByron, Presented as Gift to English Nation

speaking that is appropriate enough in a modem society comedy is unsuitable to the abounding eloquence of Shakespeare." Cast included V. Dyall (Macbeth), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Lady Macbeth) and A. W. Henderson

(Apr 5 1930) (CSM) Better "Lowbrow" Programs On the curious position of the Chairman of the BBC who is not obliged to give to the public what it wants

Apr 14 1930 (CSM) Editorial: A British National Theater? The run of recent successes- "Journey's End", "Jew Suss", "The Apple Cart", "Canaries Sometimes Sing", "The School for Scandal" and "Nine Till Six" - shows that there would be an appetite for a National Theatre, something which the Prime Minister, following a report by Sir Nigel Playfair, has promised to look into. It need not be conservative in its repertoire (a common objection) and would act as a forum for intellectual ideas

Apr 7 1930 (CSM) Editorial: The Shavian Shakespeare Following the Old Vic production of"The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" and "Androcles and the Lion", Hobson analyses what Shaw has said about Shakespeare: "Cymbeline" is "stagey trash" but "1\velfth Night" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are "crown jewels of dramatic poetry" in Shaw's view

(Apr 14 1930) (CSM) British Use Diesel Engine in Motorbus

(Apr 7 1930)(CSM) Setback to Communits (sic)

(Apr 15 1930)(CSM) Censoring Films For Youth Urged

(Apr 8 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Talking Like the Talkies There are two schools of thought about the "talkies": 1) they will cause English to be spoken everywhere 2) they will prevent it from being spoken anywhere. As long as they contain good English, Hobson feels they can only be beneficial

(Apr 17 1930) (CSM) Humber Bridge Urged as Cut-Off Between North and South England (Apr 18 1930) (CSM) Boys Give Lectures As Leadership Aid Apr 19 1930 (CSM) Editorial: The Classics Come to the Theater Drama is concerned with poetic, not historic, truth and therefore the drama critic who criticises Clifford Bax for adhering to the popular view of the death of Socrates, in his successful stage play ofthat name, is being unjust

(Apr 9 1930) (CSM) British Textile Trade Dispute Settled (Apr 10 1930) (CSM) Editorial: British Motoring Development Although still far behind many countries, the British Motor Car Industry is rapidly expanding

Apr 19 1930 (CSM) The Actress and the Drama The chance fact that there are three successful productions running that contain all-male casts ("Journey's End" at the Prince of Wales, "B. J. One" at the Globe and "Suspense" at the Duke of York's) prompts this historical retrospect of the roles of women in theatrical history. Hobson maintains that whereas English actresses are restricted by the fact that it was not until 1660 that women were able to appear on the stage, there are less constraints for French actresses, given the great parts that Racine wrote for actresses (e.g. Phedre, Andromaque and Iphigenie)

Apr 11 1930 (CSM) Editorial: Something New in Lady Macbeth? Speculates as to whether Gwen-FfrangconDavies 's feminine portrayal of Lady Macbeth in a recent Oxford production will start a new trend (Apr 11 1930) (CSM) 70 Workers Start Strike in Yorkshire Apr 12 1930 (CSM) "Macbeth" at Oxford This New Theatre, Oxford production was notable, not for any outstanding undergraduate, but for confirmation of the OUDS policy, adopted the previous year, of producing plays itself without the help of professionals. One of the main problems of "Macbeth", the numerous scene changes, was overcome and the feminine interpretation of Lady Macbeth was outstanding. However, "some of the minor characters did not realize that the easy, careless manner of

(Apr 21 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Fame and Fairy Tales The I 25th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen. Hobson considers it a rare achievement that his books, written for children, are liked by children 22

May 10 1930 (CSM) Good Plays, but Unplayable So many plays that are submitted to theatre managers are unplayable, because they make impossible stage demands (even "The Tempest" may fall into this category)

(Apr 21 1930) (CSM) Welfare Fund Aids British Coal Miner (Apr 22 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Do Prizes Inspire Authors? Literary prizes have never guaranteed a supply of first class literature

(May 13 1930) (CSM) The Response to Radio Education Another article on the popularity of the BBC's educational programmes

(Apr 25 1930) (CSM) Scrapping War Relics Nottingham Council removes its war trophies from public display

(May 15 1930)(CSM) Editorial: An Adventurous Rubaiyat The discovery of a 1505 version of Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat"

(Apr 26 1930) (CSM) Good "Bad Verse" Commendation of Desmond McCarthy's BBC programme that introduced an interesting anthology of "bad" verse

(May 15 1930)(CSM) Church to Celebrate 700th Anniversary

(Apr 29 1930) (CSM) Women Make Bricks And Build Own Home

(May 19 1930) (CSM) Free Spade and Speed To Help Unemployed

Apr 30 1930 (CSM) Editorial: Actor-Managers to London s Rescue Actor-managers are about to return to the West End (Marion Lome, Cedric Hardwicke, Owen Nates and Henry Ainley) to act in and produce plays in their own theatres, because it is felt that the greatest period in English drama (the 19th century) operated a similar system. Hobson feels that the previous fault of choosing plays with large, histrionic main parts should be avoided

(May 21 1930)(CSM) Editorial: New Jobs For Old Pensions for gas and cocoa firm employees, who lose their jobs through mechanisation (May 21 1930)(CSM) Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds Seek to Better Economic Conditions (May 21 1930)(CSM) Ancient Roman Wall Is Threatened and Britain Rises in Loud Protest

(Apr 30 1930) (CSM) British Wool Strike Is Breaking Down

(May 22 1930) (CSM) Editorial: The "New" British Monarchy On why the Monarchy is currently so popular

(May 3 1930)(CSM) Editorial: History s Place in the Talkies "Truthfulness of the total impression" is what is required from an historical play, book or film. George Arliss's "Disraeli" fails on this score

(May 24 1930) (CSM) Two Maiden Speeches Attract Attention in British Parliament By the children of the past and present Prime Minister

(May 3 1930) (CSM) Editorial Notes Applauds Nottingham Council's War Trophies decision (see 25/4/30)

(May 26 1930) (CSM) Editorial: University Finance in Britain The increasing of the state grant, with no strings attached

(May 8 l930)(CSM) Editorial: Britain Surmounts the Talkie Britain is beginning to compete with the Hollywood Talkies (with actors such as Ronald Colman, Charlie Chaplin, George Arliss and Colin Clive, and films such as "Under the Greenwood Tree" and "Escape")

(May 31 1930) (CSM) Sheffield-Berlin Exchange Students Jun 2 1930 (CSM) Editorial: Fame and Bernard Shaw Shaw's popularity has been achieved in part by the public becoming more like him (Socialist, non-smoking and teetotal!). His collected works have just been published

(May 8 1930)(CSM) Britain Enhancing Rural Beauty May 9 1930 (CSM) Rural England Maintains Activity in Developing Cultural Interests

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(Jun 16 1930)(CSM) Editorial: Endowing the Study ofPeace On the establishment of an Oxford chair for the study of International Relations

Jun 4 1930 (CSM) Editorial: The Beggars Opera The last Sir Nigel Playfair production at the Lyric, Hammersmith. This play, like "John Ferguson" and "Porgy", was a flop in the States but a hit here. Hobson feels that managers are not paying sufficient attention to the differences in taste of Britons and Americans

(Jun 17 1930) (CSM) Virgil After 1950 Years On the bimillenary of the poet (Jun 19 1930) (CSM) Old Chantry Bridge Rebuilt At Rotherham

(Jun 5 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Scott: Novelist or Hero? A defence of the author (with his centenary approaching) against the charge, first formulated by Carlyle, that he exhibits no philosophy of life. The philosophy exhibited cannot be quantified in a few, short sentences

(Jun 21 1930) (CSM) Book Review: England in the War Years "A Modern History of the English People 19101922" by R. H. Gretton Jun 23 1930 (CSM) Editorial: British Drama Becomes Democratic The competition of the talkies is bringing down the price of the tickets in the London theatres: stalls are now 8s 6d, and the balcony 2s 4d. This will make the theatre more universal

(Jun 7 1930) (CSM) What Is Good English? On a radio broadcast examining the question and coming to few conclusions apart from the one that the "Oxford" accent has nothing to do with the University

(Jun 24 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Preserving Hadrian s Roman Wall The quarrying near the wall will not be allowed to damage it

(Jun 7 1930) (CSM) Prominent Educator In Britain Resigns (Jun 7 1930) (CSM) Book Review "Characters and Events" by John Dewey

(Jun 24 1930) (CSM) Town-Planning Act Protects Scenery From Trade Development in England

(Jun 7 1930) (CSM) Old Estates To Be Sold

(Jun 24 1930) (CSM) British Women s High Jump Record

Jun 9 1930 (CSM) Editorial: Art and Propaganda One is not fatal to the other, witness Shaw and Galsworthy's "Strife", although great art is not propagandist

(Jun 25 1930) (CSM) "All Wool and a Yard Wide" Is Quite Appropriate Here (Jun 25 1930) (CSM) Farming Vies With Industry In Yorkshire

Jun 10 1930 (CSM) Editorial: Shakespeare on Trial Three Hamlets are on in the West End (Henry Ainley, John Gielgud and Alexander Moissi) and one Othello (Paul Robeson), reviving the heresy that Shakespeare is better read than performed. Applauds Ainley and Gielgud

(Jun 25 1930) (CSM) Yorkshire, Largest County in England, Famed For Beautiful Architecture (Jun 26 1930) (CSM) Sheffield Links Industry And Art In Schools Jun 28 1930 (CSM) "Samson Agonistes" at Oxford Not altogether contravening Milton's wishes, because the Puritans had closed the theatres when this was written. In spite of the setting (the Fellows Garden of Exeter College), however, the play proved to be less than dramatic. With Elspeth Coghill as Dalia, and Mr Boddington

Jun 11 1930 (CSM) Editorial: The Ancestor of the Modern Revue After an unconvincing production at Oxford of "Samson Agonistes", Hobson claims that Milton's greatest affinity is not with tragedy but with comedy (Jun 14 1930) (CSM) House of Commons Radiocast Considered

(Jul3 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Journalism and Good English Will the BBC become like the French Academy?

(Jun 16 1930) (CSM) Windows Restored in York Minster 24

(Jul3 1930) (CSM) Airport to Link Britain and America

It serves as "the concrete expression of national consciousness"

(Jul5 1930)(CSM) The BBC Purse Lengthens An increase of£ I 00,000 in income from license fees

(Jul26 1930) (CSM) Documents Relating to Gladstones Career Presented to British Museum

(Jul9 1930) (CSM) Editorial: The College Talkie Talkies often misrepresent College life as nothing but beer drinking (Jull2 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Movies and Political Censorship It is widely felt that some form of political censorship is needed to counter the influence of some recent Soviet films

(Jul 30 1930) (CSM) Bibles Sold in 1929 Exceed All Records (Aug 2 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Opera Looks for a Home in Britain The lease of Covent Garden is up in 1933 and some form of national subsidy is needed to save it and allow experimentation in productions to take place Aug 6 1930 (CSM) Poet Laureate Owns Private Playhouse

(Jull2 1930) (CSM) Pageant Performed by Entire Village

(Aug? 1930) (CSM) Sheffield to Honor Memory of Raikes

Jull6 1930 (CSM) Editorial: A Chance for the One-Act Play An underdeveloped art form

(Aug 7 1930) (CSM) Literatures Financial Side Brings Small Pay (Aug 7 1930) (CSM) Pay For Mayors

(Jull6 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Education and "Menial" Jobs Menial jobs should be recognised as contributing greatly to society

(Aug 8 1930) (CSM) Editorial: The Amateur in Cricket The amateur can no longer compete with the professional

(Jul 18 1930) (CSM) Editorial: The Finest British Cathedral? St. Paul's

(Aug 8 1930) (CSM) Nation Gets York Treasurer House

(Jull9 l930)(CSM) Book Review: Across the Sahara "By Way of the Sahara" by Owen Tweedy

(Aug 9 1930) (CSM) Lancaster s Long History Depicted in Great Pageant at Red Rose City

(Jul21 1930)(CSM) Editorial: Good News for British Steel

(Aug 9 1930) (CSM) "No Home Work" Plan is SuccessfUl in English School

(Jul21 1930)(CSM) Salford Celebrates Romantic Past and Lays Its Plans for Busy Future

(Aug II 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Learning and Earning The link between university and business requirement

(Jul 21 1930) (CSM) Northern England Advertises Itself (Jul24 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Novels Not so Novel On the popularity of the novel

(Aug II l930)(CSM) Old "Rush-Bearing" Rites for Grasmere (Aug 14 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Politics and Britain s Universities Older universities have had the greatest influence on political life

(Jul24 1930) (CSM) Sheffield Police College a Success (Jul 24 1930) (CSM) Keeping Rivers Clean

(Aug 15 1930) (CSM) Editorial: The MP. Through the Ages

(Jul24 1930) (CSM) Royal Welsh Show Is Held At Carnarvon

Aug 16 1930 (CSM) Editorial: London and the Repertory The setting up of a new company in London (the

(Jul25 1930) (CSM) Editorial: Monarchy in the Twentieth Century 25

first for a while) is very welcome because this repertory system is the best system for the health of the drama - rep companies have a large selection of plays to offer

(Sept 16 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Doing Without Reviewers Interesting list of foolish critical statements, given Hobson's subsequent career

(Aug 16 1930)(CSM)

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Canada Films Britain

British Eager To Use Varsity Trained Men

(Aug 18 1930) (CSM)

(Sept 20 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: England Responds to the Ballet

Editorial: Bannockburn as a National Park

The programmes of many productions testify to the influence that Serge Diaghileff and his ballet have had on dance

Editorial: The Need for a Fuller Economics

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Editorial: England s Changing Tariff Views

Pie/ Island For Sale

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Editorial: Are There No More Satirists?

Blyth Hall Saved

G. K. Chesterton is wrong to lament the absence of political satire because poets always find their muse in the most unpromising of situations

(Aug 25 1930) (CSM)

654-Year-0/d School Saved (Aug 26 1930) (CSM)

(Sept 25 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Co-operative Farming in Britain

Ancient Park Leased At Shilling A Year

(Aug 26 1930) (CSM)

Sept 26 1930 (CSM)

Manchester, Eng., Pipes Lake Water

Editorial: Dramatic Dislike for the Drama

(Aug 28 1930) (CSM)

Elmer Rice (producing "Street Scene") thinks that the talkies will raise the standard of the theatre

Britain To Help Older Women Seeking Jobs (Sept 2 1930) (CSM)

(Sept 26 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Praise to the Accent

Humpty-Dumpty Should Apply Here

The loss of regional accents is regrettable

(Sept 26 1930)(CSM)

Sept 4 1930 (CSM)

Britain Reaps Rich Harvest From Tourists

Editorial: The Russian Theater in the West The Russian players of Meierhold in Paris subordinate the idea of the individual actor to the central idea of drama, presenting an idea and not an individual triumph is the keynote of their work. This is foreign to the British stage, apart from the interlude of Sir Frank Benson's stewardship. The poet John Drinkwater has called for the adoption of the European approach

(Sept 27 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: "AE"- the Poet With a Hoe Irish poet, George Russell, in America (Sept 29 1930) (CSM)

Project To Restore Yorkshire Castles (Sept 29 1930) (CSM)

New Device To Cut Waste At Gas Works

(Sept 6 1930) (CSM)

(Sept 30 1930)(CSM)

Old York House To Be Restored

Editorial: Punctuation and the Grecian Urn On the debate as to how "Ode on a Grecian Urn" should end

(Sept 6 1930) (CSM)

Book Review: Portrait ofJosephine "Josephine, the Portrait of a Woman" by R. McNair Wilson

(Oct 2 1930)(CSM)

Workers Vote Wage Cut to Help Firm

(Sept 6 1930) (CSM)

(Oct 2 1930) (CSM)

Is England Insular?

Lords Feoffees ofBridlington Manor Enjoy Rights Queen Elizabeth Gave

(Sept 8 1930) (CSM)

Saved From Collapse by Timely Grouting

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(Sept 11 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Romance Awry

Editorial: Oil for Parliamentary Machinery

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Editorial: India at the Round Table

History Put Into a Test- Tube

Discussions on India

(Nov 5 1930) (CSM) Plans for We/beck

Oct 8 1930 (CSM)

Editorial: I930 Rediscovers Hazlitt On the success ofHazlitt's centenary

(Nov 8 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Gasometers and Byron

Oct 10 1930 (CSM)

Editorial: Democracy and Drama "Street Scene" and the Russian films both seek to convey the feeling of the masses and not the individual, an off shoot of the growth of democracy

(Nov 10 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Literature Becomes Democratic On the breaking down of class barriers in subject matter (Nov 12 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Long Speeches and Short

(Oct 11 1930) (CSM)

Nov 13 1930 (CSM)

Book Review: An Ideal Society- Two Views

Editorial: Should the Drama Be Topical?

"The Future of Empire: the World of Peace" by W. Harbutt Dawson and "Communist and Cooperative Colonies" by Charles Gide

Shaw, Wells and Galsworthy, with their contemporary subject matter, should stand the test of time

(Oct 14 1930) (CSM)

(Nov 14 1930)(CSM)

Sheffield Rocks Bloom When City Lets Small Plots to Unemployed

Editorial: A Famous Childs Diary (Nov 15 1930) (CSM)

(Oct 14 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Literary Chaff and Wheat

Half Century Mark Reached At Birmingham

Hugh Walpole's views ofliterature

(Oct 20 1930) (CSM)

(Nov 15 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Dr Johnson and the Americans

A Key to Radio Public Speaking

(Oct 21 1930)(CSM)

(Nov 18 l930)(CSM)

Book Review: The Meaning ofRoyalty

Leeds To Honor Screen Pioneer

"The King's Majesty" by R. H. Gretton

Nov 22 1930 (CSM)

(Oct 23 1930) (CSM)

Little Tommy Tucker

Roman Amphitheater Seating 9000 Discovered Beneath English Road

Play by Mr Gerrard at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, starring the author and Ivy Tresmand

(Oct 29 1930) (CSM)

(Dec 1 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: The Wages of Statesmanship

Editorial: Democracy and the Classics

On how much politicians should be paid

On the importance of classical ideals

(Oct 29 1930) (CSM)

(Dec 8 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Britain s Greatest Novelist

Editorial: Grammar: Friend or Foe?

John Galsworthy's view of Dickens

(Dec lO l930)(CSM)

(Oct 29 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Education on the Screen

Miners Get Institute

The educational benefits of films

(Oct 30 1930) (CSM)

(Dec l3 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: Legality of General Strikes It is doubtful that the general strike is permiss-

Editorial: Opening British Premiership to All On the recommendation that MPs should be able to sit in the Lords

able under English law (Nov 3 1930) (CSM)

(Dec 15 l930)(CSM)

Editorial: New Entente in British Industry

Editorial: Prestige of the British Throne

Essential for prosperity

On the architect of the monarchy's revival, Victoria

(Nov 3 1930) (CSM)

Editorial: The Future ofNational Talkies

(Dec 19 l930)(CSM)

National studios will be necessary to ensure world wide success

Editorial: The Seven Wonders ofBritain William Pollock's 7 favourite English places 27

Dec 20 1930 (CSM) Shaw Picks His Man A witty Shaw broadcast

On why it is important to preserve the Wagner festival (Sept 19 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Let the Film Please Itself Arbitrary rules about whether film should adapt or create new stories are futile

(Dec 23 1930)(CSM) Editorial: The Advance of Women in India At the Round Table conference (May 24 1931) (JMCP) The First Movies

Sept 19 1931 (CSM) "The Nelson Touch" By Neil Grant, a political work at the Embassy theatre, "emphatically one of the best half-dozen plays that London has seen this year", starring Anthony Ireland (Richard Fayre) and Charles Carson (The Earl ofDuncaster)

(May 25 1931) (NVVP) Is Oratory Done With? Jun 20 1931 (CSM) Two British Actors Laughton and Gielgud

(Sept21193l) (CSM) Search for Atlantis, Lost Continent, To Be Renewed By British Expedition

(Jul 3 1931 )(WBFP) The Revival of the Hiker (Jul15 l931)(CSM) Rails Across Africa

(Sept 21 193l)(CSM) Editorial: Democracy and Education University education should not depend on personal wealth

(Jull71931) (CMH) Misquotations Jul181931 (CSM) Noah in a French Play Review of Andre Obey's "Noe"

(Sept 21 1931) (CSM) Editorial: The Whale Gets a Reprieve Humanitarian and economic reasons demand a slackening off of whale hunting

(Jul18 193l)(WWVR) A Case For Film Freedom

(Sept 22 1931) (CSM) Editorial Notes The U.S. and the U.K. are drifting apart physically but not culturally

Jul 19 1931 (LKHP) Long Runs and Short (Jul 24 1931) (SWSR) Oratory

(Sept 24 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Happy Ending Realism "Realism is not less realism because it recognizes the common appropriateness of the happy ending"

(Jul 26 1931) (SIS) Dreiser Cries (Jul29 1931) (HDE) Rails Across Africa

(Sept 24 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Is the Western Coming Back? Will the Western finally catch on with the talkie producers?

(Aug 22 1931) (CSM) Attack On Slavery Begins (Sept 10 1931)(KCMS) Cockney Takes On Respect

(Sept 26 1931) (CSM) Britain and the Film England is increasing the output of her films

(Sept 10 1931) (BAAH) Authors As Talkers

Sept 26 1931 (CSM) London Stage Notes Emil Jannings is soon to be in London

(Sept 11 1931 )(CSM) Wessex Honors Hardy (Sept 14 1931) (TOT) Hats

(Sept 26 1931) (CSM) Book Review: Historical Novels- 2 Kinds "Broome Stages" by Clemence Dane, "The Blanket of the Dark" by John Buchan and "Cypress in Moonlight" by Agnes Mure Mackenzie

(Sept 16 1931) (SOS) Wessex Honors Hardy (Sept 18 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Broadcasting and Bayreuth 28

(Sept 28 193l)(CSM) Editorial: Where is the Best English Spoken? London English is gradually becoming accepted as the standard version

has shown in trying to overcome the ravages of unemployment Oct 101931 (CSM) "The Old Bachelor" This performance opened at the Lyric, Hammersmith on 18/9/31. "Congreve painted with a defiled brush, but it must be owned that he wielded it with cunning. There is a grace, an elegance, a smooth flowing rhythm about his periods that takes the admiration captive. After the abrupt and staccato sentences of most modern drama, the leisured and musical prose of "The Old Bachelor" falls gratefully upon the ear". The play, however, "has not wit enough to keep it sweet" although the cast was brilliant. Starred Edith Evans ("a great actress"), 0. B. Clarence (Fondlewife) and Miles Malleson (Sir Joseph Wittol)

(Sept 29 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Has Capitalism Failed? Not enough credit is given for capitalism's successes but there is no room for complacency (Oct 1 193l)(CIP) Let The Film Please Itself (Oct 3 1931 )(CSM) Editorial: Freedom ofLegislators On the justifiability of a government in introducing a policy that is unpopular with its supporters Oct 3 1931 (CSM) "Folly To Be Wiser" Running since 15/9/31 at the Piccadilly theatre, a revue by Jack Hulbert, which as all good revues should be is "a kind of light-hearted running commentary on the fads and fancies, the vexations and problems of the current world". Stars Cicely Courtneidge and Nelson Keys

Oct 10 1931 (CSM) A Trip to Scarborough By Sir John Vanbrugh and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. This production opened at the St. James on 14/9/31 -"a characteristic specimen of the Restoration comedy, with all the complicated and somewhat tedious intrigues, the mannered and artificial - but sparkling dialogue, the polished and civilized style, that distinguished that period of British drama" but perhaps not a town play. Starred Ernest Thesiger (Lord Foppington)

Oct3 1931 (CSM) British Countryside Becoming Artistic 33 schools for producers have been held in rural areas in the past year Oct 3 1931 (CSM) "Twelve Thousand" By Bruno Frank, at the Embassy. Premiered on 14/9/31, about Prussian recruits for the English army in America. Although the individual story never fills its potential, the work is "worthy of serious attention." Stars George Curzon (Prince), Alfred Sangster and Joyce Bland (Baroness of Spangenburg)

Oct 10 1931 (CSM) "Viktoria and Her Hussar" Production of Alfred Grunwald and Dr Fritz Lohner-Beda's work, premiered at the Palace theatre on 17/9/31. An operetta about an American Ambassador, who nobly makes way for the Hungarian Cavalry Officer to whom his wife had years before plighted her troth. Featured Margaret Carlisle, Gina Malo, Barbara Diu and OskarDenes

(Oct 3 1931 )(CSM) "Warsaw" Oct61931 (CSM) Editorial: Shakespeare In Low Gear On Shakespeare's acquaintance with the motor car!

Oct 14 1931 (TKC) Shakespeare In Low Gear (Oct 14 1931) (CSM) Editorial: How Does Britain Stand? On the worsening economic condition of Britain which the National Government is trying to tackle

(Oct 6 1931) (CSM) An Accusation On John Van Druten's speech at the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship

(Oct 15 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Clean Politics English political life is enviably free from corruption

(Oct 8 1931 )(CE) Has Capitalism Failed? (Oct 8 193l)(CSM) Editorial: Bravo, Brinmawr Applauds the self help that this Welsh village

(Oct 17 1931) (CSM) Editorial: A Speed Record On Rails 29

"Cheltenham Flyer" has travelled from Swindon to London at 80 mph

Books are a cheap and intelligent form of entertainment in difficult times

(Oct 17 1931) (CSM) New Films in London "Up for the Cup", "The Ghost Train" and "The Silver Lining"

(Oct27 193l)(CSM) Sheffield Doubles Public Acreage (Oct271931)(CSM) A National Difference In Earning Ones Way On the prospects of education for poor students

Oct 17 1931 (CSM) Shakespeare, Read and Acted Shakespeare's popularity varies from theatre to theatre and class of admirer. Most masterly works are "Hamlet", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and "Othello", with "Othello" being the most revived since the 17th century (90 revivals to Hamlet's fewer than 70, Macbeth's 60 and King Lear's 40 in London). "Romeo and Juliet" has been performed nearly 140 times on the London stage. It is perverse to say that Shakespeare's plays are better read than performed

(Oct291931)(CSM) Editorial: A Gentler Era In Politics On the political implications of Ramsay MacDonald cutting unemployment benefit (Oct 30 1931) (CSM) England Buys Historic Bridge (Oct 31 l931)(CSM) Films in London "Hindle Wakes", "Hobson's Choice" and "The Professional Guest"

(Oct 20 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Should Music Composers "Quote"? Musical quotation is a practice justified by long and extensive use

(Oct 31 1931) (NMPH) Should the Talkies Stop Talking? (Nov 2 1931)(CSM) Editorial: Mr Wells Chooses a Novel Famous authors are notoriously bad judges of their own work

(Oct 20 1931 )(CSM) London Exhibits Rare Old Volumes (Oct 21 1931) (NVVP) A Speed Record On Rails

Nov4193l (CSM) Editorial: Plays That Win Londoners Neither the talkies nor the economic cns1s have diminished Londoners' appetite for plays (£25,000 worth of seats had been sold within the first week of one light musical). Real quality is rewarded with success (e.g. "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" by RudolfBesier)

(Oct211931)(CSM) Vegetable Crops Aid Sheffield (Oct 22 1931) (CSM) Oxford Plans Move For Noise Abatement (Oct 23 1931) (LMCC) British Honesty

Nov 5 1931 (CSM) Old Document Thought to Throw Light on Shakespearean Question Is Justice Shallow in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" William Gardiner?

Oct 24 1931 (CSM) Liverpool Repertory A report on its work since its foundation in February 1911

(Nov 6 1931 )(CSM) Assyrians Ask Right To Govern Their Own Affairs

Oct24193l (CSM) "The Great Adventure" By Arnold Bennett at the Fortune. Clumsily constructed, with the unity of time being broken on at least eight occasions. Moments of rare fun. Actors: Margot Lister and Jevan BrandonThomas (Ilam Carve)

Nov 7 1931 (CSM) Editorial: Art and the Soviet Good propagandist art includes "Pygmalion", "Richard II" and "The Pilgrim's Progress" but the compulsion on Soviet artists to espouse the party line is not conducive to art

(Oct26193l)(CSM) Editorial: Should the Talkies Stop Talking? The objection to talking is both artistic and commercial (because works need to be translated) and audiences have dropped by 30%

(Nov 7 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Words, Words Usage, not derivation, settles the significance of words (witness the use of "internecine" in the last election)

(Oct271931)(CSM) Editorial: Gourmet or Gourmand? 30

(Nov 7 1931) (CSM) Book Review: The Cinema Today "Celluloid" by Paul Rotha and "Cinema" by C. A. Lejeune

(Nov 2I I931)(CSM) British Film Notes Nov 2I I93l (CSM) 'it Hunting We Will Go " By Phyllis Morris, at the Savoy: as "a play it is defective because its climax is not the logical result of the events the audience has witnessed"; the effect of hunting on the hunter should have been considered too. Featured Reginald Purdell

Nov 7 193I (CSM) "The Queens Husband" Successful farce at the Ambassadors, with Barry Jones and Grace Lane Nov 7 I93I (CSM) "Rutherford and Son" By Githa Sowerby at the Embassy: almost a notable success, with Ailsa Grahame

Nov2Il93l (CSM) "Well Caught" By Anthony Armstrong at the Embassy. The humour is that of isolated witticisms: "frankly ridiculous". With Herbert Lomas

(Nov II I93I J(RNDC) Should Music Composers "Quote"? (Nov 11 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Democracy Grasps the Nettle The election of the National Government was a triumph of the democratic process

Nov 21 193I (CSM) "Bluestone Quarry" By C. K. Munro: an admirable thesis for a debating society, dramatically uninteresting. With Michael Sherbrooke

(Nov 12 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Great Men at Play How the great amuse themselves

(Nov 23 l93I )(CSM) Editorial: Work Work as a privilege (Nov 28 193l)(CSM) Editorial: Youth, Maturity, and Politics The age of the British Cabinet

Nov 12 1931 (CSM) Stage and Film Notes R. C. Sherriff has entered Oxford

(Nov 28 I931) (CSM) New British Films "Gipsy Blood" and "Carnival"

(Nov 14 1931) (CSM) Taking Titles to Task On the titles of books

(Dec 1 1931) (CSM) Editorial: The Literary Election The last election was, given all the quoting, a triumph for English Literature

(Nov 14 l93I) (CSM) A Russian Sound Film An exhibition of Russian film

(Dec 3 1931) (CSM) Editorial: With Whom Would You Like To Walk? The replies to a question put by the "Observer" about the ideal walking companion

Nov I4 1931 (CSM) "Hollywood Holiday" Excellent entertainment by John Van Druten and Benn W. Levy at the New, with the scenes satirising Hollywood working best in their British setting. Starred Jean Cadell (Miss Pinnett)

(Dec 4 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Stereoscopic Films A new fad to revive interest in films

(Nov 14 193l)(CSM) "The Calendar" Film review

(Dec 5 1931) (CSM) "Men Like These" Film review

(Nov 14 1931) (CSM) Book Review "Puppets in Yorkshire" by Walter Wilkinson (Nov 16 1931) (CSM) Editorial: The Worlds Verdict On foreign reaction to the general election result

Dec 5 1931 (CSM) "Bletheroe" By C. K. Munro, at the Duchess. There is a plot of sorts but "it is not of the kind that needs much attention paid to it". With Wilfrid Babbage and Margaret Yarde

(Nov 17 1931) (DMFP) A 'Orrible Example Short quotation of 12/1l/3l (CSM), "Great Men at Play": the last 9 lines of the second paragraph

(Dec 5 l93l)(CSM) British Film Notes On how to decide which films are suitable for release 31

with the fact that it cashed in on the mood of the time than in any innate quality. Two of the most satisfactory pieces were "After All" and "London Wall" by John Van Druten, the latter being about the ambitions of young girls in a solicitor's office, with a strong performance by Marie Ney. Ronald Jeans's "Lean Harvest" (with Leslie Banks) about a businessman who becomes too engrossed in his work is commended, "The Nelson Touch" and "The Crime at Blossoms", both at Alec Rae's repertory theatre at Hampstead, were enjoyable. Other plays mentioned: "The Breadwinner" (Somerset Maugham), "Autumn Crocus", "The Immortal Lady" (Clifford Bax), "The Anatomist", "The Good Companions" and "Elizabeth of England"

(Dec 5 l93l)(CSM) London University Goes In For Business (Dec 9 1931) (CSM) Editorial: Parliament to Log Cabin On the jobs that redundant Labour MPs are doing Dec 12 1931 (CSM) The Return ofMr Shaw "Too True to Be Good" has finally been completed and is not about Cromwell as had been originally thought. It will be presented at Malvern in August. There have been new plays by Munro, Van Druten, G. B. Stern and Somerset Maugham in 1931 but there are still not enough opportunities for new British Drama. Managers underestimate the intelligence of the British public and serious writers are often undramatic. With only 500,000 people earning more than £10 per week and the vast majority of seats costing between l2s 6d and ISs "the drama, instead of being a social force, is in danger of becoming only an amusement of the wealthy"

Dec 19 1931 (CSM) "Passing Through Lorraine" By Lionel Hale at the Arts, contains "that best kind of comedy which springs from vigorously imagined and vividly presented character" (Dec 19 1931) (CSM) London s Best Films of 1931 "Dreyfus", "Up for the Cup" and "Hobson's Choice"

Dec 12 1931 (CSM) "The Master Builder" Opened on 19/11131. Point oflbsen's play at the Duchess missed, that if man is "going to be defeated in life, he will be defeated, not by the competition of outside forces, but by some inner weakness". With Victor Lewisohn and Mary Merral

(Dec 21 l931)(CSM) Editorial: Britain s Balance of Trade We need to adapt to the market Dec 24 1931 (CSM) On With the Pantomime A contemporary and historical look at the genre

(Dec 15 l93l)(CSM) Editorial Notes A victorious MP becomes the pupil of the man he has defeated

Dec 26 1931 (CSM) "Mary Broome" By Allan Monkhouse, at the Embassy: a play of character not incident about the Timbrel! household. With Robert Donat and Cecil Parker

(Dec 16 1931) (SNYH) With Whom Would You Like To Walk? See editorial3/12/31 (CSM) (Dec 17 l931)(CSM) Editorial: Opera in England It is superficial to say that the British people have no love for opera on the strength of the failure of the recent Covent Garden season

Dec 26 1931 (CSM) "Champion North" By Theodora Wilson, at the Royalty: the actor Mr Hodges always appears as "a shrewd, simple, benevolent gentleman nearing his hundredth anniversary", but is nevertheless excellent. With Horace Hodges (Joshua North) and Judy Hallatt

(Dec 18 193l)(CSM) Editorial: Sweepstakes Again On the "Buy British" campaign

(Dec 26 l93l)(CSM) New Films in London (Dec 29 1931) (CSM) Editorial: The Return ofEros To Piccadilly

Dec 19 1931 (CSM) London s Drama in 1931 It has not reached the level ofthe three previous years or plays such as "Journey's End", "The Apple Cart" or "The Barretts ofWimpole Street". Noel Coward's "Cavalcade" was the dramatic event of the year but its success had more to do

(Dec 30 193l)(CSM) Editorial: Too Many at the Universities? More students are fine as long as standards do not drop 32

(Dec 30 l93l)(CSM) Editorial: Portrait in Still Life On the new style of portrait painting

Jan 9 1932 (CSM) The "Merry Wives" By William Shakespeare, at the Duchess. In this play Falstaff is a shadow of his splendid self. With Baliol Holloway (Falstaff), Miriam Lewes (Mrs Ford), Nancy Price (Mrs Page), Olive Walter (Mistress Quickly) and Fewlass Llewellyn

Jan 2 1932 (CSM) "The White Guards" By M. Boulgakoff, at the Kingsway: the Bolshevist revolution has been disregarded by the London stage but this play (which managed to be performed in Moscow 325 times before it was closed by the authorities) takes a welcome look at an interesting aspect of the event, the white guards. The incomprehensibility of the language was a problem, although some scenes did manage to break down the barrier. With M.Pavloff

(Jan 9 1932) (CSM) Untitled On a pseudo-stereoscopic method of film projection (Jan 9 1932) (CSM) Assyrians Appeal For League's Aid (Jan 11 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Britain's Problems With TariffS On protectionism

(Jan 2 1932) (CSM) Turkey's First Talkie

(Jan 11 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Warships vs. Houses Disarmament would give a stimulus to industry

Jan 2 1932 (CSM) "Flat to Let" By Arthur Macrae, at the Criterion. Chekhov with a difference of mood, with little or no story. Features Lilian Braithwaite

(Jan 12 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Paying the British Income Tax On the severe changes that have just been introduced

Jan 2 1932 (CSM) British Stage Notes Foreign actors will have to satisfy more stringent quotas

(Jan 12 1932) (CSM) Radio -Merger ofDialects (Jan 15 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Individual Freedom in Parliament On a Labour MP's protest at having to vote as the whips decree

(Jan 7 1932) (CSM) Parliament Has 165 Without VtJcations Analysis of the professions of MPs Jan 7 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Exit the Radio Reviewer Regrets the BBC's decision to end the detailed criticisms of plays, books and films

Jan 16 1932 (CSM) "Hold My Hand" By Stanley Lupino, at the Gaiety. Its story defies analysis! Compared to this "Einstein may be recommended for simplicity and "Alice in Wonderland" for photographic realism". With Sonnie Hale, Stanley Lupino, Jessie Matthews and Connie Emerald

(Jan 7 1932) (CSM) Oxford Enlarges Taylorian Building (Jan 9 1932) (WC) The Irish Sweepstake and "Buy British" Campaign See editoriall8/l2/3l (CSM)

(Jan 16 1932) (CSM) A Chaliapin Film?

(Jan 9 1932) (CSM) Films in London

(Jan 16 1932) (CSM) Bertram Mills Circus At Olympia

Jan 9 1932 (CSM) "A Pair ofSpectacles " By E. Labiche, adapted by S. Grundy, at the Westminster. First presented in 1890, about a steel owner, with Henry Ainley (Uncle Gregory), Anmer Hall (Benjamin) and Robert Eddison (Dick)

(Jan 17 1932) (TOT) Warships or Houses? See editorialll/1/32 (CSM) (Jan 19 1932) (CSM) Oxford-Cambridge Men Cut Expenses Given the economic situation

Jan 9 1932 (CSM) "Walk This Way" By Archie Pitt, at the Winter Garden. A revue starring, amongst others, Gracie Fields

(Jan 20 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Wanted: Opposition Because of the tiny number of Labour MPs 33

Christmases in London, with only 4 theatres closed on Boxing Day. There were 27 matinees and 53 evening shows with receipts of nearly £40,000. The Lyceum's "Cinderella" with the comedian, George Jackley, was the most successful show. It featured the song "Who put the oo in Timbuctoo, who put the i in tripe?" Lists the notable pantomimes

(Jan 23 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Painting and Today Painting has not yet been able to make the transition from the private to the public patron Jan 23 1932 (CSM) "BowBells" A revue produced by John Murray Anderson, at the London Hippodrome

Jan 30 1932 (CSM) "1066 and All That" Adapted by Michael Watts from the book by W C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, at the Arts. A piece for the highbrow that is surprisingly successful, given the mass of historical material that needs to be compressed. With Francis Sullivan and Jean Cadell

Jan 23 1932 (CSM) "Aladdin" By V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, at the Lyric- "few of the absurdities of conventional pantomime escape its corrosive attention" (Jan 23 1932) (CSM) British Film Notes Jan 23 1932 (CSM) The Farmers Wife By Eden Phillpotts, at the Queen's. The two foremost actors in Britain are probably Henry Ainley and Cedric Hardwicke, who in this play commendably does not allow his small role to dominate the action. With Cedric Hardwicke (Churdles Ashe), Melville Cooper, Isabel Thornton (Mary Hearn) and Eileen Beldon (Petronell Sweetland)

Jan 30 1932 (CSM) "The Sleeping Beauty" By Eric Forbes Boyd, at the Arts. With Clifford Sticklen, Ronald Hickman, Susie Ward, Mavis Tunnell and Joan Edmondson Jan 30 1932 (CSM) Stage Notes Only foreign actors of international repute will be allowed to appear on the British stage (Jan 30 1932) (CSM) New British Films

(Jan 26 1932) (CSM) Editorial: National Parks in South Africa The South African policy is setting the mother country an example

Jan 30 1932 (CSM) Avalanche By Beverley Nichols, at the Arts. The play tackles the question of how much has been learned from the World War but has a vital flaw, since the declaration of war turns out to be a foolish practical joke told by a playwright to test reactions. This brands everything with a retrospective insincerity. Starring Maurice Evans (Nigel Chelmsford), Ellis Jeffreys (Lady Rockstone) and Jack Livesey {Tanner)

(Jan 27 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Nonsense? Nonsense? On the enduring popularity of "Alice in Wonderland", the manuscript of which was just sold at auction (Jan 27 1932) (EN) Give Yourself a Pat on the Back See editorial12/l/32 (CSM) (Jan 28 1932) (YEP) Give Yourself a Pat on the Back See editorial 12/l/32 (CSM), extract

(Feb 1 1932) (CSM) Editorial: An Educational-Industrial Report The development of secondary industries as an economic panacea

(Jan 28 1932) (LP) Give Yourself a Pat on the Back As above

Feb 6 1932 (CSM) Reinhardt in London Max Reinhardt is to appear in "Helen". He has some interesting theories about the theatre the modem entry of the actor into the realms of respectability and society is not entirely to the advantage of art and whatever tends to make the actor conventional hampers the natural expression of emotion - which Hobson refutes by citing the examples of Garrick and Irving. "The cult of concealing one's feelings certainly

(Jan 28 1932) (GB) Give Yourself a Pat on the Back As above (Jan 28 1932) (LPM) Give Yourself a Pat on the Back Jan 30 1932 (CSM) London Holiday Bills There have been few

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created. With Evelyn Laye (Helen), Hay Petrie (Mercury) and George Robey (Menelaus)

does not make things any simpler for an art whose whole point is the eloquent expression of feeling. One school of criticism has always levelled at the drama such comments as that no prince ever talked like Shakespeare's "Hamlet"; but this is probably "the history of the world when no prince would want to talk like Hamlet . . . The drama will survive all the changes of convention and social conduct"

Feb 20 1932 (CSM)

Festival Theatre Season, Cambridge A preview of the coming season Feb 20 1932 (CSM)

"La Bataille de Ia Marne " By Andre Obey, at the New. A narrative drama that lacks the necessary splendour of language to succeed

Feb 6 1932 (CSM)

"Dr Johnson" "The Judgement of Dr Johnson" by G. K. Chesterton, at the Arts. The first two acts are almost verbatim Johnson and then Chesterton takes over. With Francis Sullivan

Feb 20 1932 (CSM)

Repertory in Britain The Embassy in Hampstead is being suspended due to lack of support

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(Feb 23 1932) (CSM)

Sheffield Sees Money Value In Showing Goods

Editorial: Backing Into Free Trade?

(Feb 9 1932) (CSM)

Will Britain's protectionist policies actually stimulate free trade?

Editorial: Is a Mouth Organ a Toy?

(Feb 24 1932)(CSM)

On the difficulty of defining things

Editorial: Censorship ofFilms

(Feb 13 1932) (CSM) Rome Prize Won By British Woman

A new classification is needed to protect children (Feb 25 1932) (CSM)

(Feb 13 1932)(CSM)

Model ofRacing Cutter, Britannia

Films In London

(Feb 26 1932) (CSM)

Feb 13 1932 (CSM)

Old Stained Glass Cleaned At Oxford

New Playwrights ofPromise in London There have been a number of new plays of promise recently (e.g. Miss C. L. Anthony's "Autumn Crocus", James Bridie's "The Anatomist" and Lionel Hale's "Passing Through Lorraine")

(Feb 27 1932) (CSM)

Editorial: Film Castles in the Air Artistic films should not necessarily be regarded as uneconomic (c.f. the success of "Journey's End")

Feb 13 1932 (CSM)

Feb 27 1932 (CSM)

"Windows"

Must Shylock Go?

By John Galsworthy, at the Duchess. Galsworthy's strength and weakness is that he is not a fanatic, he sees all sides of an argument and this can be undramatic. With Hermione Baddeley

An interesting historical survey of theatrical approaches to the character of Shylock aims to show that "The Merchant of Venice" is not antisemitic

(Feb 13 1932) (CSM)

Feb 27 1932 (CSM)

Book Review: Today and Plato

Stratford's New Theater

"Plato and His Dialogues" by G. Lowes Dickinson

On its imminent opening

(Feb 15 1932) (CSM)

Feb 27 1932 (CSM)

Editorial: The Purple Patch

"Bastos the Bold"

In defence of the phrase

By M.Leon Regis and Fran~ois de Veynes, trans. by Doris Orna, at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge. With Harold Young (Bastos) Charlotte Leigh, George Benson and Esme Percy

(Feb 15 1932) (CSM)

Editorial: Road and Rail Cooperation Feb 20 1932 (CSM)

Reinhardt s "Helen"

Feb 27 1932 (CSM)

Based on "La Belle Helene" by A. P. Herbert, at the Adelphi. There is no objection to the burlesque of Homer as such, but this sits uncomfortably with the pictorial splendours that Reinhardt has

By Franz Werfel, at the Prince of Wales. The principal character never appears on stage! This is a feature that need not fail but does. The 13

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scenes are laboured. With Wilfrid Walter (Maximilian) and Cecil Trouncer (Diaz)

Mar 18 1932 (CSM) Theatre Built On Island In Scarborough

(Mar 2 1932) (CSM) Editorial: British Economy Act Justifies Itself

Mar 19 1932 (CSM) London Stage Notes

Mar41932 (CSM) Editorial: The Queue for Its Own Sake On the popularity of the queue for the theatregoer

Mar 19 1932 (CSM) New Plays in London "Lovely Lady" by Arthur Wimperis, "The Iron Woman" by Frederick Jackson, "Important People" by Wyndham Mallock and "Paulette" by Stanley Brightman and Arthur Illingworth

Mar 5 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Shakespeare for Repertory Applauds the boom in repertory productions of Shakespeare, since they will give an accurate reflection of the text

Mar 19 1932 (CSM) Goethe and the Theater The Aachen Players are presenting Goethe's "Urfaust", discovered in 1887, in Oxford and Cambridge and at the Cambridge Theatre in London. "Faust" in its fullest form is unsuitable for performance and is in some ways comparable to Hardy's "Dynasts" - good drama but poor theatre. Also on the links between Marlowe's version and Goethe's

Mar 5 1932 (CSM) In the Historical Vein "The Rose Without A Thorn" by Clifford Bax, at the Duchess. On the above and the two other historical works "Punchinello" by John Hastings Turner and "Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater, Hobson praises their episodic method since it can reduce the need to tinker with history

(Mar 23 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Aid for the British Public School On the suggestion that public schools should receive state help

Mar 5 1932 (CSM) New British Productions Including an OUDS' "Romeo and Juliet" with Peggy Ashcroft

(Mar 23 l932)(CSM) English Town Buys Land to Keep Beauty

(Mar 5 1932) (CSM) A Nous Ia Liberte Film

Mar 24 1932 (PRIJ) Shakespearean Repertory See 5/3/32 (CSM)

(Mar 9 1932) (CSM) Scott Novel's Site Taken By Britain

(Mar 25 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Can Sweepstakes Be Stopped? Only if the punishments are severe and the law enforced

(Mar 12 1932) (CSM) Book Review: A New Year Book "The Year Book of Education 1932" by Lord Eustace Percy

Mar 26 1932 (CSM) "Punchinello " By John Hastings Turner, at the Globe. The play recently flopped after 4 performances and was then rewritten by the author at the request of the producer, Martin Browne. It is now a success. With George Curzon (Philip of Spain) and George Hayes (Punchinello)

Mar 12 1932 (CSM) New Plays in London "Sentenced" by Harold Simpson, "So Far and No Father" by Capt. H. M. Harwood and "King, Queen, Knave" by Capt H. M. Harwood and R. Gore Brown (Mar 15 1932) (CSM) On Going To Oxford Again Reflections and Oxford nostalgia

Mar 26 1932 (CSM) "The Man I Killed" By Maurice Rostand, at the Apollo. (English Version by Capt. Reginald Berkeley). Withdrawn after 5 nights. With Norman McKinnel (Oskar von Holderlin) and Emlyn Williams

(Mar 15 1932) (CSM) Artist Scratches Portrait On Glass (Mar 17 1932) (CSM) Scott Centenary Plans Announced

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Luigi Pirandello (trans. by H. K. Aylifl), at the Westminster. Four remarkable features: I) the production of Tyrone Guthrie 2) the team work of the troupe of players 3) the performance of Flora Robson 4) "the exemplification by the entire play of the triumph ofPirandello's skill as a dramatist over his pretensions as a philosopher . . . Pirandello is not an original thinker. The central idea of this play, that the external world is not as solid as it appears, is valuable, but it was not Pirandello who first put it into intellectual circulation. And the notion that the characters in a drama have an independent entity of their own, apart from the consciousness of their author, is one that has been familiar to commentators on Shakespeare for several generations". Bears technical similarities to Greek tragedy (story revealed in narrative rather than action) and the cinema (flashbacks to direct action). Hobson finds the story painful but praises its "enormous power and impressiveness". With Morland Graham (Producer), Henry Oscar (Father) and Flora Robson (Step-Daughter)

"Captain Desmond V. C." by Maud Diver. Adapted from the book, about boredom in India. Too detailed. With James Raglan (Apr 4 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Two Sides to the Art Question On the virtues of realism; realism and impressionism are both valid Apr 6 1932 (CSM) Exchange ofActors Sought by British Apr 9 1932 (CSM) An Excursion to the Continent "Rudolph of Austria" by Graham Rawson, at the Arts. The dramatist has "put in a great deal of historical study before writing his drama, and has brought some new facts to light. This is the way to get a D. Phil. But it will not do for an audience that wants entertainment rather than instruction". With Ion Swinley (Archduke), C. M. Hallard and Margaret Vines (Baroness Vetsera) "See Naples and Die" by Elmer Rice, at the Arts. No story but entertaining. With Olive Blakeney (Nanette Dodge Kosofl), Antony Holies (Ivan Ivanovitch Kosoft) and Bernard Nedell

"Below the Surface" by J. L. F. Hunt and H. G. Stoker, at the Prince of Wales: "straightforward yam about two submarine officers' rivalry for promotion". With Anthony Ireland

Apr 9 1932 (CSM) New Plays in London "Tobias and the Angel" by James Bridie, at the Westminster. A dramatization of the book of Tobit in the Apocrypha. With Morland Graham (Tobit), Frederick Piper (Tobias) and Henry Ainley (Archangel}, who had "superb presence"

(Mar 29 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The University and the Drama The theatre should receive similar official support in English Universities to that which is shown in American

(Mar 29 1932) (CSM) • "Security" by Esme Wynne-Tyson. "Extraordi"Kameradschafi" narily moving." With Clare Harris Directed by H. W. Pabst, showing Britain how films should be made. About French and German (Apr 12 1932) (CSM) miners and concerned less with the individual Editorial: Britain Considers Coal Should more be mined? than with the community Apr 2 1932 (CSM) London sNew Plays "Fire" by Emita Lascelles, at the Palace, about the life and execution of Cranmer. With Francis L. Sullivan (Henry VIII), Esme Percy and Miriam Adams (Katherine Howard)

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"The Cat and the Fiddle" by Otto Harbach, at the Aldwych. A musical comedy about the reconciliation of two young musicians. With Peggy Wood, Alice Delysia and Francis Lederer

(Apr 13 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Reforming the House ofLords Advocated by the Conservatives

Apr 13 1932 (CSM) Book Review: Books of Current Interest "Let's Pretend" by Cedric Hardwicke, a book of reminiscences

(Apr 15 1932) (CSM) Cinemas Show 20 P.C. Of British Films

"Dirty Work" by Ben Travers, at the Aldwych. Each Travers farce over the last 10 years at this theatre has generally run for over 300 performances. With Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare

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(Apr 16 1932) (CSM) "War Is Hell" A German film

(May 2 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Wanted- Cleaner Posters Posters need to improve their quality and type

(Apr 16 1932) (CSM) A Use For Hollywood On 4 great actors - Henry Ainley, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud and Charles Laughton - and their relationship with Hollywood. In London, popular drama has to subsidise performances of the classics, should there not be state aid, a National Theatre? Modem drama is naturalistic, Shakespeare's theatrical

(May 3 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Oxford vs. Cambridge On their rivalry in numerous fields (May 4 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Linguistic Nationalism On the Italian attempt to purge its language of foreign influences May 5 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Better Days for the Theater Unemployment for actors is more serious than formerly, although the company principle is returning with actors being associated with individual theatres (e.g. Ainley at the Westminster, Marion Lome the Whitehall, Cedric Hardwicke the Queen's, Ralph Lynn and Tom Walls the Aldwych)

(Apr 19 1932) (CSM) Films In London (Apr 20 1932) (CSM) Roadway To Wales Covers Roman Ruin (Apr 20 1932) (CSM) Wagon Tipper Built By Jobless Miners Apr 23 1932 (CSM) The Drama Goes International On the activities of the British Drama League and the breadth of audience for plays (in spite of parochial subject matter)

May 7 1932 (CSM) Gothic "Old Man Murphy" by Patrick Kearney and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, at the Savoy. Amusing piece about electioneering in the USA. With Arthur Sinclair

Apr 23 1932 (CSM) "The Shropshire Lad" "Miss Hook of Holland" by Paul A. Rubens and Austen A. Hurgon, at Daly's Theatre. A musical comedy in which "lively expectations of boredom were happily disappointed." With Mark Lester (Mr Hook), Hal Bryan (Simon Slinks) and Jean Colin

"Caravan" by Carl Zuckmayer, at Queen's. A dull play about a circus, that failed instantly. With Cedric Hardwicke, Maisie Gay, Eileen Beldon and Wilfrid Lawson "The Miracle" by Karl Vollmoeller, at the Lyceum. A wonderful spectacle, set in a cathedral, but nothing more. With Glen Byam Shaw, Tilly Losch, Ivan Brandt and Lady Diana Duff Cooper

"Precious Bane" by Edward Lewis, at St Martin's. It is regrettable that some of the best parts of the book have been cut out. With Robert Donat (Gideon Sam) and Gwen FfrangconDavies (Prue)

May 7 1932 (CSM) The Play and Its Trappings There is a place for the lavish scenery of "White Horse Inn", "Cavalcade" and "Helen" as long as it does not swamp the acting

(Apr 23 1932) (CSM) Films in London "Alone" from Russia (Apr 23 1932) (CSM) The African Native

May 7 1932 (CSM) Book Review: Stage Costume "The Costume of the Theater" by Theodore Komisarjevsky

Apr 25 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Evening Clothes at The Theater After an actor wrote to the "Tzmes" begging it be worn Apr 27 1932 (CSM) Scott and the Theater

(May 9 1932) (RNTU) Contemporary Thought - Wanted Cleaner Posters See editorial 2/5/32 (CSM)

(Apr 30 1932) (CSM) Films in London

May 9 1932 (CSM) London Stage Notes

(Apr 30 1932) (CSM) Conquest for Literacy

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look at one's watch ... Mr Shaw is primarily a man of ideas; a political and economic philosopher who has chosen the drama to disseminate his notions. But he is also a Puritan, and he has never been able entirely to get over the Puritan idea that art is a snare and delusion. In several of his celebrated prefaces his uneasiness and impatience with art have manifested themselves; here they manifest themselves in the play itself". The play exhibits his favourite theory "that all is not well with the present structure of society, while at the same time showing that art and culture and all that sort of thing produce the wrong kind of people". Britain is heading for the rocks, he says, but his solution is disappointingly vague. Nevertheless, it is a "magnificent entertainment . . . Never has Mr Shaw's wit been more sparkling or more pungent than in this play". With Cedric Hardwicke (Captain Shotover), Edith Evans (Lady Utterwood), Leon Quartermaine (Hector Hushabye), Wilfred Lawson and Eileen Beldon (Ellie Dunn)

(May 10 1932) (CSM) Historians and Politicians History is now being regarded as a good training for life May 14 1932 (CSM) Mr Ainley on Stage and Screen On his first film "The First Mrs Fraser", in which he starred on stage May 14 1932 (CSM) An Imperial Century "Bewitched" by Clive Currie, at the Arts. Clumsily constructed love story, with Martin Lewis "Vile Bodies" by H. Dennis Bradley, from Evelyn Waugh's novel, at the Vaudeville. Waugh resembles Congreve and this is one of the "best acted plays seen in London this year." With Robert Douglas (Adam Fenwick-Symes), Athole Stewart (Colonel Blout), and P. Kynaston Reeves (Capt. Eddie Littlejohn) "Napoleon" by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano, trans. by John Drinkwater, at the New. A lengthy work that does not convey Napoleon's magnetism, but contains Mussolini's propaganda that dictatorship is an excellent form of government. With Robert Atkins, Arthur Wontner (Fouche), Haidee Wright (who "would probably have been most affecting had we been able to hear what she was saying") and Murray Carrington (Wellington)

"The Du Barry" an operetta by Paul Kneppler and J. M. Wilenski, at His Majesty's. " ... marks another step down the road toward increased rationality of plot which musical comedy is now following, though whether rationality is really wanted in an irrational form of entertainment may perhaps be doubted". With Anny Ahlers, Heddle Nash and Lawrence Anderson "Faces" by Patrick Ludlow and Walter Sondes, at the Comedy. An excellent second act, with its realistic portrayal of suburban bliss

(May 15 1932) (CSM) Films in London The German version of "The Brothers Karamazov"

(May 21 1932) (CSM) "The First Mrs Fraser" Film rev,iew

(May 17 1932) (CSM) For Films Truer To Social Facts On the proposal to establish an organization to develop film for the purposes of propaganda, education and culture

(May 24 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Sunday Cinemas and the Hospitals On whether cinemas should open on Sundays (May 25 1932) (CTT) Editorial: Literature and the Price

(May 19 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Literature - and the Price On the danger of questionable, cheap novels driving out better quality writing

(May 26 1932) (CSM) Should the Movies Talk? Yes, because subtitles are irritating, close-ups intolerable, the musical accompaniment often inappropriate. Erwin Canham argues in an opposing column, No

May 21 1932 (CSM) Art and Puritanism "Heartbreak House" by George Bernard Shaw, at Queen's. "Mr Shaw knows everything about writing a play except when to finish it". It lasts three hours five minutes. "If it were little more than half as long "Heartbreak House" would be twice as good. Mr Shaw has put enough wit into this play to make the reputation of half a dozen comedies. It is like bringing out a searchlight to

(May 28 1932) (CSM) London to Teach Archaeology May 28 1932 (CSM) Physics and Politics "Wings Over Europe" by Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne, at the Globe. "Great men in 39

ordinary life are under no compulsion to go about convincing everyone they meet of their real greatness. Great men on the stage are under this compulsion". Hence, the portrayal of the young man who discovers how to harness the energy of the atom and threatens to blackmail the world, fails. With Francis James (Lightfoot), Felix Aylmer, Evan Thomas, Kinsey Peile, D. A. Clarke-Smith and Melville Cooper

(Jun lO 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The B.B. C. Moves On The BBC moves to Portland Place Jun 11 1932 (CSM) The Revival of the Actor? On the return of "big acting" Jun 11 1932 (CSM) "Twelfth Night" Produced 24/5/32 at the New, but not amusing. With Phyllis Nei1son-Terry (Olivia), Cecil Ramage and John Laurie (Feste)

"Ring on her Fingers" by H. F. Maltby, at the Phoenix "The Tragedy of Nan" by John Masefield, at the Embassy. Remains one of the most moving works in twentieth century English literature

Jun 11 1932 (CSM) Somebody :S Cornered "Somebody Knows" by John Van Druten, at St Martin's. Produced 12/5/32. The author has created an impossible situation for the leading role by providing no hints as to guilt or innocence. Based on an unsolved murder case. With Muriel Aked (Mme. Malvinetti), Lily Coles (Beatrix Thomson), Frank Lawton (Lance Perkins) and Cathleen Nesbit (Eunice Malvinetti)

(May 28 1932) (CSM) Film "fersion of "The Faithful Heart" (May 31 1932) (CSM) British Resorts Plan Big Year (Jun I 1932) (CSM) British Member ofParliament Compiling "Who:S Who" Back to 1928

"Dangerous Comer" by J. B. Priestley, at the Lyric. The author's first play for the stage "is a marvel of ingenuity", bearing comparison with Ibsen in the way that most of the action has taken place before the play has begun. It ends with an exact reproduction of the opening of the first act - "a fascinatingly exciting and clever play". With Flora Robson, Marie Ney, Richard Bird and Frank Allenby

Jun 3 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Oxford Film Stars On Sir Nigel Playfair's suggestion that a Chair of Drama be established at Oxford Jun 4 1932 (CSM) Stage Notes 250th anniversary of Drury Lane and 250th performance of "Cavalcade" Jun 4 1932 (CSM) All at Sea "Overboard" by Sutton Vane, at the Garrick. Lacks "The Turn of the Screw" touch. With Emlyn Williams (Jack), Laurie Cowie, Leon M. Lion and Ernest Jay. Actor managers are becoming the norm again and variety is reviving, often in cinemas

Jun 11 1932 (CSM) Amateur Societies' Cup Final Review of the National Festival of Community Drama at the Garrick (23/5/32) (Jun 111932)(CSM) Editorial: Esquivas Wants a Book On whether the first edition of "Don Quixote" should be returned to Spain

"The Jack Pot", a revue at the Prince of Wales, uncoordinated. With Phyllis Monkman, Marion Harris and George Campo

Jun 17 1932 (CSM) Book Review: Through the Box Office Window "Through the Box Office Window" by W H. Leverton

(Jun 4 1932) (CSM) Britain Tells the World A review of the propaganda film "England, WakeUp"

(Jun 5 1932) (NVVP) The Happy Ending

Jun 18 1932 (CSM) The Return of Chare/1 "A Cold June" by Sir Arthur Pinero, at the Duchess. A poor example of the playwright's oeuvre with too unappealing a female role. Starring Hugh Wakefield, Charles Carson and Betty Stockfield (June)

Jun 6 1932 (CSM) Festival Gadgets The new stage at Stratford

"Casanova", adapted by Hans Muller, at the Coliseum. A star-studded cast and the most magnificent scenery ever seen in Britain - but

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just a musical comedy. With Jack Barty (Count), Douglas Wakefield (Costa), Soffi Schonning (Laura), Grete Natzler (Barbara), Ferdinand Autori (Casanova), Arthur Fear (Casanova), Marie Lohr (Empress Maria Theresa), Oriel Ross (Empress Catherine of Russia), Dorothy Dickson (Princess Potomska), Tamara Desni and Marianne Winkelstern

"Helen" etc. - has been a producer's theatre, tackling the big sets of the cinema, while the cinema has been trying to utilise the intimacy of the stage. They have both been going against the grain Jun 29 1932 (CSM) Art and the Public "The Price of Wisdom" by Lionel Brown, at the Ambassadors. "An unlikely and melodramatic" love story but enjoyable. Starring Irene Vanbrugh, Whitmore Humphreys (Peter Frank), Joan Henly, Harvey Braban (Byng) and Walter Piers (Colonel Eyton)

Jun 18 1932 (CSM) A Play in Esperanto "La Vilao da I' Amo", with Elizabeth de Ia Bruyere Jun 18 1932 (CSM) The Fortunes of Sir Nigel Sir Nigel Playfair has switched from producing at the Lyric to concentrate on acting

"A Non-Stop Revue" produced by Wallace Parnell, at the Prince of Wales. Lasts from two o'clock to midnight, of variable quality yet suiting the popular taste. With Alfredo and his Gypsy Vagabonds

(Jun 18 1932) (CSM) Screen Britain

"Hocus Pocus", a new play by Austen Page, at the Garrick. A satire on the art world. With Walter Janssen (Liebl), Adele Dixon (Sandra Gauvain), Frank Cellier (Keppler), Henry Mollison (Swann) and Rolf Mueller (Fritzi)

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(Jun 21 1932)(CSM) A Bow to Tax-Supported Radio On the new Broadcasting House (Jun 21 1932) (CSM) Yorkshire Show Traces Advance ofAgriculture

(Jull 1932)(TOT) Editorial: Preserving Urban Beauty See (CSM) editorial27/6/32

Jun 22 1932 (CSM) A Woman Gift to Shakespeare The portrayal of Shakespearean women over the years

Jul2 1932 (CSM) These Adaptations On the prevalence of adaptations of novels on the London stage

Jun 25 1932 (CSM) Greeting to Sir Walter "Scott of Abbotsford" by W. E. Gunn, at the Everyman. An interesting chronicle of Sir Walter Scott's life. With Peter King (Scott)

Jul2 1932 (CSM) Unclassified "Blood Royal" by Eric Forbes Boyd, at the Piccadilly. A farce with moments of melodrama and satire of contemporary romantic conventions. With Richard Bird (Hugo) and Ernest Jay (Miggs)

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"Party" by Ivor Novello, at the Strand. An inconsequential plot about the celebrations after a first night but Lilian Braithwaite gives "one of the most amusing performances seen in London for some time"

"Tell Her the Truth" by James Montgomery, at the Saville. "It is one of the paradoxes of the theater that the last triumph of the really great comedian is the capacity to make his audience cry. That capacity is the supreme distinction of Chaplain" and Bobby Howes achieves this in this musical comedy

(Jun 27 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Preserving Urban Beauty The Oxford Preservation Trust goes from strength to strength

(Jul5 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Mickey Mouse an Englishman! On the discovery of an historical Michael Mouse

(Jun 28 1932) (CSM) Examinations as Public Entertainment On the fascination that exams can sometimes exert

(Jul9 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Translations, Please! On the correct translation of the motto of Shrewsbury school

Jun 29 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Screen and Stage The theatre of the recent past - "Cavalcade", 41

"Evensong", adapted from Beverley Nichols's novel, by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, at the Embassy. One of the few adaptations that are an improvement on the original, with Edith Evans giving one of the finest performances for years. Starring Edith Evans (Irela), Wilfrid Lawson (Arthur Kober), Joan Harben (Pauline) Frederick Leister (Archduke Theodore) and Violet Vanbrugh (Princess Stephenie)

Jul9 1932 (CSM) Aiming at a Million "Out of the Bottle" by Fred Thompson and Clifford Grey, at the Hippodrome. About a grateful genie. Featuring Clifford Mollison (Peter Partridge), Polly Walker, Frances Day (Molly Harper) and Arthur Riscoe "The Secret Woman" by Eden Phillpotts, at the Duchess. Too ambitious and similar to "Mourning Becomes Electra". With Nancy Price (Ann Redvers), Peggy Ashcroft, Malcom Keen (Redvers), Wilson Coleman (Joseph Westaway), Alfred Clark (Joshua Bloom) and Elizabeth Maude (Barbara Westaway)

(Jul26 1932) (CSM) A Mere Historical Prejudice On the destination of new graduates

(Jul12 1932) (CSM) Views of Woman Film Producer Leontine Sagan

(Jul27 1932) (CSM) Who is Mr A. N. Other? On the origins of the name

(Jull2 1932) (CSM) London University Headquarters The new site

(Jul29 1932) (CSM) "Reds" Rule Cards Are Propaganda Russia disapproves of Bridge because the Kings and Queens on the cards are propaganda "for the last vestiges of outworn feudalism"

Jul 23 1932 (CSM) Screen Musical Comedies

Jul16 1932 (CSM) Stage and Film Notes Exhibition of film stills in Berlin

Jul30 1932 (CSM) Radio and the Theater "The Pride of the Regiment, or Cashiered for His Country" by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley and Scobie Mackenzie, at St. Martin's. Written by the BBC's poetry reader and first transmitted over the radio - about treachery that ends in love. With Gavin Gordon (Capt. Rudolph de Vavasour), Kathlyn Hilliard, Trefor Jones, V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, Frank Birch (Prime Minister), Coleen Clifford (Agatha) and Charlotte Leigh (Adelaide)

Jull6 1932 (CSM) Editorial: The Humor ofHamlet The Moscow production of Hamlet directed by Dmitri Shostakovich considers the play to be a comedy, since Marxist philosophy decrees that men act only in accordance with economic interests! The Director has been criticised, however, for not revealing the conflict between feudalism and capitalism Jull6 1932 (CSM) Cook's Tours "Ourselves Alone" by Noel Scott and Dudley Sturrock, at the Globe. Surprisingly withdrawn after just two weeks, about Sinn Fein and the Irish troubles

"Savoy Follies", at the Savoy. Revue with the radio comedian Gillie Potter, Florence Desmond, Stanley Holloway, Hal Bryan, John Mack, Polly Ward and Teddy Fox

"Sweet Lavender" by Arthur Pinero, at the Lyric, Hammersmith. The extended use of soliloquy makes it difficult to take the play seriously. With Gwynne Whitby (Mrs Gilfillian) and Baliol Holloway (Dick Phenyl)

Jul30 1932 (CSM) Molly McArthur, Scene Designer Interview with the permanent stage designer of the Westminster theatre about her work Jul 30 1932 (CSM) Thomas Hardy and the Drama Interesting article about Gwen FfrangconDavies's recollections of a performance of Hardy's "Tess ofthe Durbevilles" at the author's home. Also Hobson's reflections on Hardy and "Jude the Obscure"

"Fanfare" book by Dion Titheradge, at the Prince Edward's. A revue with Violet Loraine and Joe Cook which exploits the humour of incongruity Jul23 1932 (CSM) Song and Dance "Dance With No Music" by Rodney Ackland, at the Embassy. About a seaside repertory troupe, "intellectually and dramatically sound". With Catherine Lacey (Sue)

(Aug I 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The Great Egg Mystery Why does a cricketer who scores nought get a duck's rather than a hen's egg? 42

letter on page 45 of Book 5 from Flora Robson, dated August 28th and sent from the Lyric theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. It runs as follows: Dear Mr Hobson, I I liked your article so I much, I had to write and thank I you for it. I I get awfully afraid of interviewers/ especially when they write things like I ". . . Said she, looking frankly into my eyes", I not that I expected that from you. I I am sorry the meeting was so short, I I hope you will come in and see me I another time. I Yours sincerely I Flora Robson)

(Aug 3 1932) (CSM) Editorial: "That Tak'st My Book in Hand" On the misunderstandings of works of literature (Aug 4 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Reform and Dress Reform Gladstone and his attitude to the Great Reform Bill (Aug 4 1932) (CSM) 1Wo Film Viewpoints The characteristics of European and American films

(Aug 15 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Women and Diplomacy On the decision of the French to consider whether women can hold diplomatic positions; Hobson feels it is long overdue

Aug 5 1932 (CSM) Dramatic Student Groups Merged Aug 6 1932 (CSM) Loyalty to the Author Hobson defends the right of the Moscow production of Hamlet to interpret the play as a comedy, however misguided, because English productions have often gone against the text and are rarely performed on the type of stage that Shakespeare wrote for. If it is original and entertains, a production can be justified

Aug 20 1932 (CSM) Jiariations on a Theme An interview with Peggy Wood in which she talks about how an audience should influence the portrayal of a part Aug 20 1932 (CSM) Ibsen, James and the Theater "Theater and Friendship: Letters from Henry James to Elizabeth Robins, with a commentary by Elizabeth Robins"

(Aug 6 1932) (CSM) Book Review "My Hollywood Diary" by Edgar Wallace

Aug 25 1932 (CSM) Three and a Half Centuries on the Stage On the comedian Stanley Lupino's theatrical forebears

Aug 6 1932 (CSM) Galsworthy 's "Escape " Revived "Escape" by John Galsworthy, at the Garrick. A fine play but could be better if the protagonist were more like Everyman. With Colin Clive (Capt. Denant), L. M. Lion, A. R. Whatmore, Paul Gill and Phyliss Konstam

Aug 27 1932 (CSM) "Orders Are Orders" By Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong, at the Shaftesbury. The annual Shaftesbury farce, this time about film making in the army. With Clive Currie and Olive Blakeney

(Aug l3 1932) (CSM) Prologue and Epilogue A review of the films "Der Hauptmann von Kopernick" and "Number 17"

Aug 27 1932 (CSM) Four Centuries ofBritish Drama "The Play of the Weather" by John Heywood, Malvern Festival production. Part of Barry Jackson's festival of 400 years of British drama but merely a discussion about the weather; "Ralph Roister Doister" by Nicholas Udall. Produced as above. A genuine theatrical comedy, infinitely better than "The Play ofthe Weather"; "The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson. An effective drama "satirizing with a fierce wit the follies and superstitions of its day". With Cedric Hardwicke (Abel Drugger); "Orinooko" by Thomas Southerne. A "dull and bombastic tragedy, but Mr Ralph Richardson performed the surprising feat of bringing some actuality and pathos into the part of Orinooko"; "Tom Thumb" by Henry Fielding. A satire of inflated tragedies such as

Aug l3 1932 (CSM) "The Silver Chord" By Sidney Howard, at the Embassy. A partisan portrayal of the relationship between a motherin-law and her son's wife. With Marjorie Fielding (Mrs Phelps), Joyce Bland, Catherine Lacy, Eric Berry (Robert) and Torin Thatcher (David) Aug l3 1932 (CSM) Enter Miss Robson An interview with the actress in which she states that Shakespeare still offers great scope to the ambitious young actress. Hobson gives a brief theatrical biography and concurs with J. B. Priestley's opinion of her as one ofthe two finest actresses of tragedy in England (see also the 43

"Orinooko". With Robert Kerrigan, Ernest Thesiger and Phyllis Shand; "London Assurance" by Dion Boucicault. The worst play of the week. With Eileen Beldon

voice. With Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Rosalind), Ronald Simpson (Orlando), Jack Melford (Touchstone) and Douglas Ross (Jacques); "Oxford Blazers" by Aubrey Ensor and Arthur Watkyn, at King's, Cambridge. A review put on by university graduates

Aug 27 1932 (CSM) Dissenting Opinion "Too True to Be Good" by G. B. Shaw, Malvern Festival. Produced 6/8/32. A play that is "tantalizingly formless, rambling and inconsecutive" but is carried through by an accomplished cast. Including Cedric Hardwicke (The Burglar), Ralph Richardson (Sergeant Fielding), Walter Hudd (Meek), Scott Sunderland (Colonel Tallboys), Ellen Pollock (The Nurse) and Leonora Corbett (The Patient)

Sept 7 1932 (CSM) Editorial: The Shaw Mystery Solved On the claim that Dean Inge has written Shaw's plays! (Sept 8 1932) (CSM) Editorial: John Locke and Democracy A retrospect on the occasion of his 300th anniversary

(Aug 27 1932) (CSM) British Film Notes Including details of the film adaptation of "Arms and the Man"

Sept lO 1932 (CSM) The Decline ofActing Ivor Brown, one of the leading critics, claims that he has yet to see an individual performance that has genuinely swept him of his feet. There are no actors to match Kean, but then modem actors no longer have Kean 's opportunities, since the growth of "realism" has resulted in a drama that strives to be a more or less accurate copy of ordinary existence, in which people undergo profound emotion only very occasionally, and even then do their level best to conceal it. As far as the actor is concerned it "is perhaps unfortunate that the most conspicuous British dramatic author of the last 30 years should have been Mr G. Bernard Shaw. Had Britain during that period had a playwright who could appeal to the emotions with as much skill as Mr Shaw to the intellect, some of the most effective and impressive parts in dramatic history might have been written". The collapse ofthe actor-manager system has also led to the decline of acting but on the plus side, as John Gielgud has pointed out, there has been a corresponding strengthening of ensemble playing

(Aug 27 1932) (CSM) Britain Likes German System On the German university system (Aug 29 1932) (CSM) Editorial: An Aid to Industry The links that can be formed between universities and industry Aug 31 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Playgoers Under 1Wo Flags Hobson discusses the differences between the English and American stage which J. B. Priestley has noticed (e.g. New York has a greater interest in intellectual plays) and concludes that the two are drawing closer together in taste Sept 3 1932 (CSM) The Actress in Tragedy On the relatively few good tragic female roles (Shakespeare has only written Lady Macbeth). New tragedy that evokes pity and not just horror is what is called for to give female actresses better tragic roles

Sept 10 1932 (CSM) On London Stages "Tomorrow Will Be Friday" by Philip Leaver, at the Haymarket. A plot which is "dull, unoriginal and improbable". With Philip Leaver and Leon Quartermaine (Garth Sidney); "Loyalties" by John Galsworthy, at the Garrick. One "ofthe best acted plays in London." With Marie Tempest, Graham Browne, Celia Johnson and Oliver Raphael

(Sept 3 l932)(CSM) New British Films "Thark", "The Love Contract" and "Josser on the River" Sept 3 1932 (CSM) "As You Like It" on the Air "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare, on BBC radio. Transmitted 15/16/Aug 1932. The disadvantages of Shakespeare on the radio are the often large casts and the complicated plots, as here, but radio can hide the physical inappropriateness of an actor for a part and focus on the

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(Sept 24 1932) (CSM) The Herries Saga "The Fortress" by Hugh Walpole

Sept 14 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Rights of the Playwright Hobson feels that Noel Coward's successful lawsuit against a theatrical company that wanted to present one of his sketches in a way that would misrepresent his intentions will greatly enhance the prestige of drama

Sept 24 1932 (CSM) On Writing Special Parts Hobson speculates whether the success of John Van Druten's play at the St James's, "Behold! We Live", written with Gertrude Lawrence in mind, will revive the process of writing plays for particular players

(Sept 15 1932) (CSM) Not For Cambridge Men Hobson writes about his first trip to Cambridge

Sept 24 1932 (CSM) AI Fresco Drama A survey of the successful outdoor productions that the warm summer has given rise to

(Sept 17 1932) (CSM) "Love on Wheels " Film review Sept 17 1932 (CSM) Thrills and Frills "Firebird" adapted by Jeffrey Dell from Lajos Zihaly, at the Playhouse. An intelligent but unsatisfying detective story. With Gladys Cooper (Mme Lovasdy) and Antoinette Cellier; "Over the Page" by Dion Titheradge, at the Alhambra. "The author of the book of "Over the Page" rashly opens his revue with a sketch about a revue writer who could not think of a new idea. One recalls this little scene many times as the evening wears on". With Violet Loraine, June, Lady Inverclyde, Billy Merson, George Gee and Reginald Gardiner

Sept 24 1932 (CSM) Two Comedians "Fifty Fifty" adapted from the French of Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr, by H. F. Maltby - at the Aldwych. Poor play about a music teacher that is well acted. With Ralph Lynn (David Blake), Frederick Burtwell (Stromboli) and Morris Harvey; "Rhyme and Rhythm", compiled by Laddie Cliff, at the Winter Garden. Full of good material but disjointed. With Gilly Flower, Basil Howes, Jack Clarke, George Myddleton, Phyllis Monkman and Laddie Cliff (Sept 26 1932) (CSM) Editorial: A Hint for British Films There should be more British films about Britain and its customs

Sept 171932 (CSM) A Difference of Opinion It is common for authors to have different views of their work to the public e.g. John Van Druten prefers the short-lived "Somebody Knows" to the long running "Young Woodley". Actors' favourite roles, with public popularity in parentheses: Cedric Hardwicke (Edward MoultonBarrett in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street", Captain Shotover in "Heartbreak House"); and then subsequent list

Oct I 1932 (CSM) The Theater and the Films Shaw and Priestley are excited by the possibilities of film, whereas P. G.Wodehouse, Noel Coward and John Van Druten have had poor experiences with Hollywood Oct l 1932 (CSM) Oxford and Epigrams "The Way to the Stars" by Philip Leaver, at the Wyndhams. "At the beginning of the second act one of the characters remarked to another, "We can't go on like this". Heartily did the audience echo this sentiment". A play with no plot and an excess of epigrams that may have been saved by the quality of the acting. With Leslie Banks (Paul), Frances Lister (Peter) and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Marquesa de Casa Reya); "Oxford Blazers" by Arthur Watkyn and Aubrey C. Ensor, at the Little. The revue makes a welcome visit to the West End. With Margery Binner, Anthony Spurgin and John Glyn-Jones

(Sept 20 1932) (CSM) American Scott Enthusiast Asks Writer to Immortalize Him (Sept 20 1932) (CSM) Anglo-American Films Assured Of Wider Market (Sept 22 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Sculpture and the Greeks The reported discovery of the Temple of Eros in Greece (Sept 23 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Fewer Books and More Literature There are too many books of poor quality being written

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On the foundation of the International Students' Drama League

(Oct 10 1932)(CSM) Oxford Gets Old Cabinet

(Oct 1 1932) (CSM) Educational Ladder On the spread of Oxbridge scholarships between state and public schools

Oct 12 1932 (CSM) Machinery and the Stage An intellectual analysis of the influence that the staging of a play can have on writing, prompted by the increase in the number of revolving stages in London

(Oct 1 1932) (CSM) Donkey Boy to Philologist "The Life of Joseph Wright" by His Wife

(Oct 15 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The Right to Work

Oct 7 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Censorship and "The Green Pastures" In practice, the system of censorship in Britain works very well, since plays that the Lord Chamberlain bans, because they represent the deity (as in "The Green Pastures") or portray public figures, can sometimes be put on in private theatre clubs where the Lord Chamberlain may decide to repent of his original decision

Oct 15 1932 (CSM) Caesarism "Miracle at Verdun" by Hans Chlumberg, trans. by Edward Crankshaw, at the Embassy. An astounding triumph over material difficulties, with I 0 scene changes and over I 00 speaking characters, that seeks to reproach the world for not having learnt the lessons of the war. With John Garside and Abraham Sofaer (ChiefRabbi); "Caesar and Cleopatra" by G. B. Shaw, at the Old Vic. Shaw's recent admiration of Mussolini can be explained by his views on Caesar, but his Caesar is only great in "his readiness to suffer criticism". The play does possess more wit, however, than Shaw's recent productions. With Malcom Kean (Caesar), Peggy Ashcroft (Cleopatra) and Geoffrey Wincott

(Oct 8 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Gorillas and the Cinema The London Zoo has been showing films to its gorillas Oct 8 1932 (CSM) Shakespeare and the Actor The first season of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford has been a great success with an average audience of 1000 (capacity 11 00). Notable events included Theodore Komisarjevsky's masqued "The Merchant of Venice" and Ernest Milton's "Othello" and "Shylock". Hobson also investigates the importance of fresh interpretations of Shakespeare's work, citing Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies's OUDS' Lady Macbeth

(Oct 15 1932) (CSM) "The Wedding Rehearsal" Review ofthe film "The Wedding Rehearsal" (Oct 17 1932) (CSM) Editorial: What is Good English? A reiteration of the fact that there is no standard English (Oct 19 1932) (CSM) Editorial: A City Unafraid The new Sheffield City Hall commemorates the city's cultural triumphs

Oct 8 1932 (CSM) London Stage Notes Henry Ainley has gone into actor/management Oct 8 1932 (CSM) Sociology Without Tears "Words and Music" by Noel Coward, at the Adelphi; "Too True to Be Good" by G. B. Shaw, at the New; "The Edwardians" adapted from the book of V. Sackville-West, by Dorothy Black, Repertory Theatre, Croydon. "Mr Coward looks on the world and finds it not only worthless but aware of its worthlessness; Mr Shaw announces that the reason for this worthlessness is that the twentieth century has generally forgotten its own convictions without adopting new ones to take their place, and Miss Black's adaptation ... testifies that, wherever the remedy for present social ills may be, it does not lie in a return to the system that was destroyed by the war"

(Oct 19 1932) (BAAH) Gorillas And The Cinema Oct 22 1932 (CSM) Oxford for the Million About Leontine Sagan's film featuring Oxford University, "Men of Tomorrow" (Oct 22 1932) (CSM) Editorial: On the Track ofM.P:s On the attempts to document the history of British MPs Oct 22 1932 (CSM) In the State of Denmark "Eight Bells" by Percy G. Mandley, at the Phoenix. "It is a discontented, aimless and 46

the university origins of Sherlock Holmes to an end: "Anyone not quite disposed to regard this circumstance as conclusive proof of a Cambridge training may perhaps have his doubts removed by recalling other details of Holmes's education, as given by Dr J. H. Watson in "A Study in Scarlet", where it is stated that Holmes's attainments in regard to literature and philosophy were nil, and his knowledge of politics feeble". Sent from the following address: Hermitage Court, Woodford Road, E.l8. (Nov 1 1932)

disillusioned world that the English theater is showing us these days". This play is "a very creditable essay in melodrama" about a becalmed ship on the outbreak of the 1914 war. There is one serious flaw in that the impossible protagonist is not given a fair showing; "the hero and heroine of melodrama should always be people to whom one can give a full and unquestioning measure of sympathy. This kind of play has no room for subtlety"; "Strange Orchestra" by Rodney Ackland, at StMartin's. Its arrival in the West End after 18 months has been greeted with acclaim and the author possesses great talent, recalling Chekhov. With Laura Cowie (Vera Lyndon) and Jean Forbes-Robertson (Jenny Lyndon); "Justice" by John Galsworthy, at the Garrick. A finely acted revival. With Colin Clive

Nov 5 1932 (CSM) "Children in Uniform" "Children in Uniform" adapted by Barbara Burnham from the play "Miidchen in Uniform" by Christa Winsloe, at the Duchess. A "beautiful play" about the brutality of a Prussian girl's education, that unlike the film version, ends tragically. "It has a lyric quality, a freshness of young joy and affection, rare in the drama of any age, and scarcely to be found in the drama of this". With Joyce Bland (Fraulein von Bemburg), Cathleen Nesbitt and Jessica Tandy (Manuela); "Spacetime Inn" by Lionel Britton, at the Arts. A pseudo-Shavian play about time travelling. With Edgar Norfolk and Frank Vosper

(Oct 24 1932) (BAAH) What Is Good English? Oct 29 1932 (CSM) Statesmanship in Slippers "Dizzy", a domestic comedy by Thomas Pellatt, at the Westminster. The play's title is misleading because it has very little to do with Disraeli and politics. Again, the acting is far superior to the work. With Ernest Milton (Disraeli) and Eugene Leahy (Gladstone); "Road House" by Walter Hackett, at the Whitehall. Centred on a hotel fraternised by the criminal fraternity, it ends up with the landlady falling in Jove with the previously suspicious policeman. With Marion Lome, Gordon Harker and Godfrey Tearle; "The Merry Widow" by Franz Lehar, at the Hippodrome. Frequently revived after its original 700 performance run. With Helen Gilliand, George Graves and Carl Brisson

(Nov 7 1932) (CSM) Editorial: History and Legend A brief discussion of their relationship (Nov 12 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Punch Changes Its Editor Nov 12 1932 (CSM) Sugar and Vinegar "Service" by C. L. Anthony (Dodie Smith), Wyndham's. About a floundering shop. With Leslie Banks (Gabriel Service) - "The most accomplished English acting of today is piano rather than forte in character" - and J. H. Roberts (Timothy Benton); "Versailles" by Emil Ludwig, trans. by Geoffrey Dunlop, at the Kingsway. Looks at the melancholy subject ofthe Versailles conference, taking a dim view of the whole affair and particularly of Lloyd George's role. With Frederick Lloyd (Lloyd George), Bromley Davenport (Woodrow Wilson) and Sam Livesey (Clemenceau); "Here We Are Again", revue, at the Lyceum. With Gillie Potter; "After Dinner", revue, at the Gaiety. With Hermione Baddeley

Oct 29 1932 (CSM) Sir John Martin Harvey An article on the "last English exponent of the school of Sir Henry Irving" (Nov 1 1932)(AGJ) What is Good English? (Nov 2 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Organized Gambling Sweepstakes organised on a national basis are a scandal (Nov 2 1932) (CSM) Sheffield s Heart of Steel Finds New Soft Place for Muses to Haunt The civic architecture of Sheffield

Nov 12 1932 (CSM) Ufa Disappoints Emil Jannings's film, "The Tempest" is a disappointment

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Nov 12 1932 (CSM) Mr Bax and Historical Drama Clifford Bax is "an outstanding historical dramatist." He feels that the dramatist must adapt history for the stage, agreeing with Aristotle's view that "fiction is more perfect than history". He successfully pulls off the difficult feat of bringing historical figures to the forefront of his dramas and making them believable characters

(Nov 26 1932) (CSM) Film Desert A review of the film "There Goes the Bride" Nov 26 1932 (CSM) Russia, England, Switzerland "The Bear Dances" by F. L. Lucas, at the Garrick. Exciting melodrama and impartial intellectual conversation about Soviet Russia. With Elena Miramova; "Once a Husband", a comedy by Margot Neville and Brett Hay, at the Haymarket. A "tedious handling of a footless theme" with an excellent cast (this is one of the terrors of going to the theatre, finding such fine actors in such a poor work). With Fay Compton, Owen Nares and Cyril Maude; "Wild Violets" by Bruno Hardt-Warden, at Drury Lane. Overpowering set. With Charlotte Greenwood Nov 26 1932 (CSM) A Notable Detective "Never Come Back" by Frederick Lonsdale, at the Phoenix. Although character is sacrificed to jest at the end, Mr Rolls is a "masterpiece of comedy". With Frank Allenby; "Philomel" by Jefferson Faijeon, at the Ambassador's. Charming, but the philosophy that purity can do no wrong is not satisfactorily illustrated by the plot. With Phyllis Neilson-Terry Dec 1 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Business, Gamble or Art? Applauds Equity's decision to prevent the production of plays that cannot guarantee two weeks' wages for the actors (Dec 2 1932)(BAAH) Favorite Lines (Dec 2 1932) (SMEU) Good English Dec 3 1932 (CSM) The Return of Tragedy "Other People's Lives" by A. A. Milne, at the Arts. A tragedy about the interfering behaviour of four Bright Young Things, that is symptomatic of the current penchant for tragedy in the British theatre, which differs from the Greek or Elizabethan concept. With Harold Warrender (Bellamy); "Playground" by Noel Scott, at the Royalty. Love story set in a school. With Beatrix Thompson, Maurice Evans and Fewlass Llewellin (Bishop of Annandale) Dec 3 1932 (CSM) "Follow Me" "Follow Me" by Tyrone Guthrie, at the Westminster. The producer's first play, about the return of the Messiah, suffers because the censor has refused to allow the depiction on stage of the main character. With Elliot Mason

(Nov 12 1932) (CSM) British Amateur Films (Nov 14 1932) (POO) Oxford English Is Disliked (Nov 16 1932) (CSM) Autographs in an Inn On the former innkeeper of the "Spread Eagle" hotel at Thame, who invited guests to sign their names on the wall (Nov 18 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Favorite Lines On favourite lines of poetry (Nov 19 1932) (CSM) Editorial: A Detectives Alma Mater A witty examination of whether Sherlock Holmes went to Oxford or Cambridge Nov 19 1932 (CSM) Versatility in Acting Hobson commends the versatility ofPeggy Wood, Ralph Lynne, Marion Lome, Fay Compton and Gertrude Lawrence (Nov 19 1932) (CSM) Sifting Out the Thinkers Examinations in Britain should not be so rigid Nov 23 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Shirts in the Stalls Frederick Lonsdale, the dramatist, wants the convention of wearing evening dress to go to the theatre abolished. Hobson feels that this London convention has "encouraged the development of high comedy to a quite remarkable extent, and it has also produced a wide divergence between the theatrical tastes of London and the provinces. If people dress, they dine; and the play must begin late to allow them to get to the theater no more than half an hour after the curtain has gone up". This means that a London play (with intervals) will last no more than two hours thirty five minutes, not sufficient for a provincial audience. Experiments to try and make London plays more informal are bound to be introduced again (Nov 24 1932) (BAAH) A Detectives Alma Mater 48

(Dec 13 1932)(BAAH) Entertainment For Children

(Dec 3 1932) (CSM) Films in London "David Golder" and "Marry Me"

(Dec 13 1932)(CSM) Editorial: Disappearing Dialects Standard English will reduce class differences

Dec 3 1932 (CSM) Book Review: Mr Cochran Remembers "I Had Almost Forgotten" by Charles B. Cochran- the brilliant theatrical producer

(Dec 17 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The Rights ofReputation On the justifiability of publishing juvenilia and the private correspondence of writers

(Dec 6 1932) (CSM) Editorial: Entertainment for Children On children's preferred reading

Dec 17 1932 (CSM) Comedy With Pathos A feature on the comedian Bobby Howes who believes that "Comedy is heightened in its effect by the indication, at the same time, of the pathetic" (and he cites Chaplin as an example of this)

Dec 6 1932 (CSM) London to Give Children s Plays (Dec 8 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The B.B.C.s Tenth Anniversary A review of the first ten years

Dec 17 1932 (CSM) The Old v The New "The Bells" by Leopold Lewis, at King's. An actor's play, in which Sir John Martin-Harvey plays the lead part in the way that Irving might have done; "A Kiss in Spring", at the Alhambra. A producer's play, the aim of which is to delight the eye, utilising, amongst other tricks, the revolving stage. With Alicia Markova, Harold Turner, Eileen Moody, and Kenneth Kove

Dec 9 1932 (CSM) Editorial: High Spots ofPantomime Still as popular as ever (Dec 9 1932) (CSM) Bodleian Gets North Documents Dec 10 1932 (CSM) American and British Humor The recent failure of three American comedians in London may have been due to their overreliance on mechanical props, their mark of success, and jokes about machinery- something with which a British audience is unfamiliar. "The stage character of the typical English comedian is a man who is not very quick in the uptake, one who is generally the butt of his associates". The arch exponent of English drollery is Sidney Howard

(Dec 17 1932)(CSM) Films in London "Barbarina" Dec 19 1932 (CSM) Editorial: Rewriting Shakespeare The effort taken to understand Shakespeare is well rewarded (Dec 20 1932) (CSM) London Sees Steps In Making Movies From Caveman Days to the Present A film exhibition

Dec 10 1932 (CSM) Decline and Fall "The Cathedral" by Hugh Walpole, at the Embassy. Well adapted by the dramatist from his own book but Baliol Holloway is miscast as the great man rendered low by fate. With Balliol Holloway (Brandon) and Francis L. Sullivan (Canon Ronder); "Potash and Perlmutter", at the Gaiety. Robert Leonard and Augustus Yorke have been playing these two Jewish comedians for the last 18 years. With Ellen Pollock

Dec 24 1932 (CSM) Literature or Theater? "The Only Way" adapted from Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" by Freeman Willis and Frederick Langbridge, at the King's, Hammersmith. Thirty five to forty years ago Shaw was campaigning in his dramatic criticism for romantic "heroical" dramas, such as this, to be superseded by the kind of intellectual drama that "Getting Married" represents. Ironically, "Getting Married" now appears dated: "It is based on the theory that plays which have no immediate relevance to the questions of the time in which they are written are trivial, and it suffers from the fact that when these questions are no longer current such plays as have this relevance lose three-quarters of their

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force and power. Legal changes have made some of the dialogue of getting married obsolete"; "The Only Way" appears fresher because it "tells an exciting tale with full theatrical effect", it is "imrealistic" drama in the Shakespearean mould and it has an emotional, as opposed to a theatrical, effect. With Sir John Martin Harvey (Sydney Carton); "Getting Married" by G. B. Shaw, at the Little Theatre (People's National). With George Hayes, Edith Sharpe, Milton Rosmer and Aubrey Mather

Dec31 1932 (CSM) What the Theater Needs An interview with Cedric Hardwicke. Shaw has had the unfortunate effect of making people treat the theatre as a pulpit or a soapbox according to Cedric Hardwicke, which is interesting coming from one of the leading Shavian actors. The passion for realism needs to be reversed (Jan 3 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Nicknames (Jan 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: A Landmark for Women Students

(Dec 24 1932) (CSM) Book Review "Lipton's Autobiography" by Sir Thomas Lipton

(Jan 6 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Castles in Distress

(Dec 27 1932) (CSM) To Provide Better For Those Not Taking Honors An "important change at Cambridge"

Jan 7 1933 (CSM) News ofArt, Music and the Theater: After 2344 Years Reviews of"Another Language" by Rose Franken and "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Euripides (which "unites the chief virtues of the theater of Irving and the theater of Shaw, proving that a play may be intellectually respectable without being undramatic, and that though it is built on an exciting plot it need not be mentally beneath contempt")

(Dec 29 1932) (CSM) Editorial: The Small Change of Conversation The usefulness of cliches (Dec 30 1932)(CSM) Editorial: The Noblest Language On the merits of Latin and Greek Dec 311932 (CSM) Plays of the Year in London Hobson's selection: Best Play - "Children in Uniform", produced by Leontine Sagan at the Duchess (of the four outstanding tragedies produced in London in 1932, this was "the only one that has completely reconciled the pathos and poetry of its theme with the prose of its dialogue"). Worthy of mention are Clifford Bax 's historical drama "The Rose Without a Thorn", Ronald Mackenzie's "Musical Chairs" (his death is a great loss), "The Man I Killed", a touching but unpopular war play that ran for less than a week, John Van Druten's tragedy "Behold! We Live" and "Somebody Knows", James Bridie's "Tobias and the Angel" with Henry Ainley, A. P. Herbert's "Helen", Noel Coward's "Words and Music" and G. B. Shaw's "Too True to Be Good" ("We still think that in that vast mass of verbiage somewhere an idea was lurking. What a pity it was never dramatized!"). Individual performances: Flora Robson in "Six Characters in Search of an Author" and in "For Services Rendered", Lilian Braithwaite in "Party" and Edith Evans as Irela in "Evensong". Also Cecil Ramage as the Duke in "Twelfth Night", Peggy Ashcroft as Portia in "The Merchant of Venice", Ernest Milton as Shylock and Othello, and Ralph Richardson in "For Services Rendered"

(Jan 7 1933) (CSM) Detecting Film Genius (Jan 7 1933) (CSM) Sherlock Holmes (Jan 10 1933) (CSM) Earning Ones Way At the University As Britain Sees It (Jan 13 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Virgil and Values Jan 14 1933 (CSM) Christmas in the West End Reviews of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, "The Sleeping Beauty" by Walter and Frederick Melville and the first performance of Bertram Mills's circus Jan 14 1933 (CSM) Novelist Into Playwright Interview with Hugh Walpole, who has just launched his first play, "The Cathedral". ("Mr Walpole's views on the theater are clear and definite. He thinks that the world today is interested in spiritual and moral problems more perhaps than it has ever been before. "The success of Charles Morgan's "The Fountain", both in England and in America proves that," he said. The novel is trying to tackle this aspect of 50

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human experience, thinks Mr Walpole, but as yet the stage has not awakened to the things of life that are really significant. On the one hand, it is exclusively concerned with cup-and-saucer, drawing-room comedy; on the other, it is too often out of date. Mr Walpole believes that both Mr Shaw's "Too True to be Good" and Mr Maugham's "For Services Rendered" failed to receive praise comparable to that given to their authors' previous works because they are behind the times. The mood of pessimistic despair which they evoke belongs to the period immediately following the war. It has now, in Mr Walpole's opinion, given way to a much more courageous and hopeful outlook. The time has come for the theater to tackle the big things of life, the primary emotions, the really urgent problems. And to provide parts, also, "that actors can get their teeth into". Few close observers of the British theater will disagree with Mr Walpole")

Jan 28 1933 (CSM) Goldsmith and Others Reviews of "A Cup of Happiness" by Eden Phillpotts, "Fresh Fields" by Ivor Novello and "She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night" by Oliver Goldsmith, starring Peggy Ashcroft. "One feels that modern dramatists do not write like Goldsmith, not so much because they cannot, as because they have lost the desire to do so" Jan 28 1933 (CSM) Is the Film Actor Obsolete? (Feb 3 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Horace for Us All Feb 4 1933 (CSM) Does the Actor Feel? Opinions of various actors (Anny Ahlers, Flora Robson, Dame Madge Kendal, Sir John Martin Harvey, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Ainley, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, John Gielgud) on method acting

Jan 14 1933 (CSM) Book Review: Shakespearean Reevaluations "What the Author Meant" by George R. Foss (Jan 14 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Lets Be Conventional

Feb 4 1933 (CSM) Mr Bax s Dark Views Clifford Bax's views on the contemporary theatre

Jan 16 1933 (CSM) Retrospect Past theatrical events that Hobson would have liked to have witnessed; Garrick, Kean, Salvini 's "Othello", Sarah Bernhardt's "Phedre" and Irving's Matthias in "The Bells". The greatest thrill so far has been Sir John Martin-Harvey's Sidney Carton in "The Only Way"

(Feb 8 1933) (CSM) The Best Is Yet To Be Novels can only improve (Feb 11 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Legends- Exploded but Significant

Jan 21 1933 (CSM) Theater Chess Reviews of Nikita Balieff's Chauve-Souris Company and "Ten Minute Alibi" by Anthony Armstrong

Feb 11 1933 (CSM) A National Theater Reviews of the Welsh National Theatre's production of Richard Hughes's "Comedy of Good and Evil"; "Bunty Pulls the Strings", and "The Beggars Bowl" by Hugh Marleyn

Jan 21 1933 (CSM) Malvern Festival, 1933 Programme Jan 21 1933 (CSM) Stars -Make Them or Take Them? The use of theatrical stars in films

Feb 11 1933 (CSM) Miss Hindle Takes a Bow The joy of discovering an actor of talent. An early example of how small theatrical gestures often stick in Hobson's mind

Jan 23 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Making London Lovely Jan 28 1933 (CSM) Realism in the Theater Komisarjevsky, Reinhardt and Richardson: Hobson: "Let us hope that soon the drama will discover the glory of words"

Feb 11 1933 (CSM) Has Tragedy Returned?

(Jan 28 1933) (CSM) Book Review: "Next the Kinist"

Feb 14 1933 (CSM) Editorial: The Revival ofHissing

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Feb 20 1933 (CSM) A Test for an Aristocrat Reviews of"A Bit of a Test", a new farce by Ben Travers and "Head On Crash" by Laurence Miller

(MarlO 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Storm Over Oxford Pacifist debate (Mar ll 1933) (CSM) New Goals in the Universities

(Feb 23 1933) (CSM) Lady Margaret Hall Chapel Dedicated

Mar l3 1933 (CSM) A Mixed Bill Reviews of "Mary Stuart" by John Drinkwater, "The Admirable Bashville" by G. B. Shaw and "The Holmeses ofBaker Street" by Basil Mitchell

Feb 23 1933 (CSM) Editorial: No Pay, No Play On the recent strike called by Equity Feb 24 1933 (CSM) Noted Actor Makes Last London Bow Sir Henry Lytton

Mar 13 1933 (CSM) Filling Theaters The Coliseum goes over to the Talkies

(Feb 27 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Windmills

(Mar l3 1933)(CSM) The New Rene Clair Film

Feb 27 1933 (CSM) Wanted- Poor Plays Ralph Richardson complains about the heavyhandedness of playwrights, who are to keen to prescribe actions, in the manner of a novelist. (Hobson: "It was inevitable that Irving should prefer "The Bells" to the work of Shaw, because in "The Bells" he could be a creative, while in Shaw, he could be only an interpretive, artist")

Mar l3 1933 (CSM) Grasmere Dialect Play (Mar 16 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Marianne - and Others (Mar 17 1933) (CSM) Oxford Organizing Society For University Graduates Mar 20 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Liverpool sFavored Play Results of a Liverpool theatregoers' ballot popularity in descending order, Sir James Barrie, Galsworthy, G. B. Shaw, Frederick Lonsdale, Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward

Feb 27 1933 (CSM) The Grand Manner A review of "Richard of Bordeaux" by Gordon Daviot (Feb 28 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Women in Art

Mar 20 1933 (CSM) The Actor As Artist Seminal article in which Hobson analyses the importance of the producer, playwright and actor and concludes that the actor is the most important component of a theatrical production and that the theatre critic's task is to preserve the actor's otherwise transient effects

(Mar 1 1933) (CSM) Editorial: A Monumental Issue (Mar 3 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Making Friends Through the Films (Mar 4 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Grantchester- Beloved ofPoets (Mar 6 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Pepys As A Navy Founder

Mar 20 1933 (CSM) Americana Reviews of "Once in a Lifetime" by Moss Hart and GeorgeS. Kaufmann and "Cock Robin" by Elmer Rice and Philip Barry

Mar 6 1933 (CSM) Two Serious Plays Reviews of "The Green Bay Tree" by Mordaunt Shairp and "These Two" by Lionel Hale

(Mar 20 1933) (CSM) Words Over the Atlantic

Mar 6 1933 (CSM) Democracy and the Theater Theatre-going is becoming cheaper in London

(Mar 25 1933) (CSM) British Colleges Need To Agree on Degrees

(Mar 6 1933) (CSM) Oxford Allies With Bristol

Mar 27 1933 (CSM) Filmed "Cavalcade" In London

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Reviews of Dorothy Massingham 's "The Lake" and the anonymous "Francis Thompson"

(Apr 11 1933) (CSM) Tiniest Movie Camera Introduced in London

Mar 27 1933 (CSM) Is Shakespeare a Dramatist? Best read or performed?

Apr 17 1933 (CSM) Oxford and the Drama Apr 17 1933 (CSM) After Fifty Years Review ofHenrik Ibsen's "Ghosts"

(Mar 28 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Boys, Girls and the Box Office (Apr 1 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Freedom of Speech Apr 3 1933 (CSM) Drama in the Air Reviews of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and Peter Cresswell and Barbara Burnham's adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" broadcast on BBC radio

Apr 17 1933 (CSM) The Best School for Acting The repertory system Apr 171933 (CSM) A Great English Comedy Review of "The School for Scandal" by R. Brinsley Sheridan (Apr 17 1933) (CSM) British Film Notes

Apr 3 1933 (CSM) The Future of the Musical Play

Apr 17 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Dickens and Drama

Apr 3 1933 (CSM) Malvern Festival Plays

Apr 18 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Abracadabra

(Apr 3 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Statuesque Inaccuracy

(Apr 18 1933) (CSM) Tract ofMoorland Given to Sheffield

(Apr4 1933) (CSM) The First Day Up

(Apr 19 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Varnish?

(Apr 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Retelling Stories

(Apr 22 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Rationalize the Screen?

(Apr 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Wheat- An International Problem

Apr 24 1933 (CSM) Malvern To Offer Cycle of 500 Years In English Drama

(Apr 7 1933) (CSM) Churchill Contracts For £20,000 Book Apr 10 1933 (CSM) British Director Urges Strict Curb On Untrue Movies

Apr 24 1933 (CSM) Mr Robeson Turns East Famous black actor contemplating a trip to Russia

Apr 10 1933 (CSM) Mr Monkhouse Comes To London Reviews of "Cecilia" by Allan Monkhouse and "Gay Love" by Audrey and Waveney Carton (". . . a preposterously delightful entertainment, which leaves its audience in a mood of thorough good humor. There is an inebriation scene near the end which does not add to its virtues")

(Apr 24 1933) (CSM) Sixty Years ofMagic (Apr 25 1933) (CSM) Students Form Company (Apr 26 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Self Help for Iron and Steel

Apr 10 1933 (CSM) Mr 0 'Neill In England Reviews of "Oliver Twist", and "All God's Chillun Got Wings" by Eugene O'Neill

(Apr 26 1933)(CSM) Oxford Honors Man and Wife (Apr 28 1933) (CSM) Radio Study Groups Increase in England

(Apr 10 1933) (CSM) Two British Films

May 1 1933 (CSM) Sir Barry Jackson A description of his work

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(May 1 1933) (CSM) Ryllis Hasoutra

"The biggest scenes . . . always ought to take place off stage, because actuality invariably falls short of imagination properly stirred"

May 1 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Shakespeare for Amusement "An incalculable quantity of injustice has been done to Shakespeare by treating him with a portentous seriousness that has only been a synonym for boredom and dullness. The somewhat light-hearted productions of Shakespeare's plays in discussion have at least the merit of considering them as though they were alive"

(May 16 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Wages ofEducation (May 16 1933) (CSM) London and Londoners (May 17 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Saxophoney

(May 2 1933) (CSM) Editorial: London en Fete

(May 19 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Organizing Motion Picture Audiences

(May 2 1933) (CSM) Queen Victoria in 1896 Starred in Movies

(May 20 1933) (CSM) Editorial Notes

(May 3 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Let Them Please Themselves

(May 20 1933) (CSM) British to Exhibit Historic Treasures

(May 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Unlocking a Treasure House

May 22 1933 (CSM) The Stage and the Cinema Reviews of"Crime on the Hill" by Jack de Leon and Jack Celestin and "The Rivals" by Sheridan

(May 6 1933) (CSM) Rural Film Experiment

May 22 1933 (CSM) "Oedipus" on the Air Review of a BBC broadcast

May 8 1933 (CSM) In the Outposts Reviews of "On Approval" by Frederick Lonsdale and "Beggars in Hell" by George Cuddon and Patrick Thrnbull

(May 22 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Caesar for Journalists

May 9 1933 (CSM) Mr Shaw s English

(May 23 1933) (CSM) Editorial: A Poet of the Higher View

(May 9 1933) (CSM) When Colleges Debate By Radio

May 23 1933 (CSM) Toward a New Tragedy It is possible to write great tragedy in prose (c.f. Lady Macbeth's last scene, Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes?" and Hamlet's "What a piece of work is man")

May 9 1933 (CSM) Dame Madge Kendal Records Voice After Fourscore Years on Stage (May 10 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Seeds of Scholarship

(May 25 1933)(CSM) Editorial: Left for Laughter

May 12 1933 (CSM) Athens to See Outdoor Drama

(May 25 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Slavery and Disarmament

(May 13 1933) (CSM) Editorial: England Looks To Holland

May 26 1933 (CSM) Editorial: England and Its Amateur Actors The Festival of Community Drama

(May 13 1933) (CSM) Literature and "Arcadia "

May 27 1933 (CSM) Book Review: A Playwright on Plays C.K.Munro

May 15 1933 (CSM) A Woman ofProperty Reviews of "The Soldier and the Gentlewoman" by Dorothy Massingham and Laurie Lister and "The Brontes" by Alfred Sangster

(May 29 1933) (CSM) Old Oxford College gets Clock

May 15 1933 (CSM) To See or Not to See

(May 31 1933)(CSM) Welsh Miners Offer Job-Sharing Plan

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(Jun 2 1933) (CSM) Old Farm Tools Collected

(Jun 19 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Chivalry Down the Ages

(Jun 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: In Defense of Nightingales

(Jun 20 1933) (CSM) Future of the Bodleian

Jun 5 1933 (CSM) "The Late Christopher Bean " Reviews of "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Late Christopher Bean" adapted from the French of Rene Fauchois, by Emlyn Williams

(Jun 22 1933) (CSM) Swearing Banned From British Films

Jun 5 1933 (CSM) John Milton, Radio Dramatist Review of the BBC's "Paradise Lost"

(Jun 24 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Covent Garden

Jun 24 1933 (CSM) English Nobles Present Pageant

(Jun 26 1933) (CSM) Editorial: London University

Jun 7 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Alas, Poor Shakespeare

Jun 26 1933 (CSM) The Brontes Again Reviews of "Diplomacy" by Victorien Sardou ("Sir Gerald du Maurier is quite inaudible, but obviously a master of his job") and "Wild Decembers" by Miss Clemence Dane

Jun 7 1933 (CSM) Edmund Kean Centenary Observed at Drury Lane (Jun 8 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Detective Stories

Jun 26 1933 (CSM) Drama Cup Goes North

(Jun 9 1933) (CSM) British to Show Films in American Theaters

(Jun 28 1933) (CSM) English to Perpetuate Old Danish Earthworks

(Jun 10 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Does Travel Teach?

(Jun 29 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Can Democracy Continue?

Jun 12 1933 (CSM) "Music in the Air" Reviews of "Strife" by John Galsworthy and "Music in the Air" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein

(Jull 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Classes Without Classes Jul3 1933 (CSM) A War Play Revived Reviews of "The Burgomaster of Stilemonde" by Maurice Maeterlinck and "Tamburlaine" by Christopher Marlowe

Jun 12 1933 (CSM) "Martine" Reviews of"Gallows Glorious" by Ronald Gow, "The Poet's Secret" and "Martine" by JeanJacques Bernard

Jul3 1933 (CSM) The London Stage Society

(Jun 13 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Demand for Decency

(Jul 3 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Poetry and the B.B.C.

(Jun 14 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Spellbinders in Print

(Jul3 1933) (CSM) England Bards Rally to Radio Call

s

Jun 15 1933 (CSM) On Seeing Shakespeare Jun 16 1933 (CSM) Shakespeare Aids Project to Clear London Slums

(Jul5 1933) (CSM) First Woman Addresses Debate at Oxford Union

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(Jul5 1933) (CSM) University College Extended at Exeter

Jun 17 1933 (CSM) Book Review: Oxfordian Rejoinder

(Jul6 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Amateur Music and the Radio

Jun 19 1933 (CSM) A Democratic Theater The Shilling Theater in Fulham

(JuliO 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Moley and the Muse JuliO 1933 (CSM) And in Rain

(Jun 19 1933) (CSM) Chaliapin on the Screen 55

Review of OUDS' production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Jul29 1933 (CSM) Book Review: Miss McCarthy Recalls

JuliO 1933 (CSM) Titania Amid the Trees Review of the above in Florence

(Jul31 1933) (BAAH) "Revolution" in San Marino See (CSM) 26/7133

JuliO 1933 (CSM) Defense of Type-Acting

(Jul 31 1933) (CSM) A Princes Travels

(Julll 1933)(CSM) Editorial: Rhodes Scholars and Democracy (Jul12 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Average Man

Jul 31 1933 (CSM) Two New Revues in London "The Mexican Revue", and "After Dark" by Ronald Jeans

(Jull2 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Universities in Britain

Ju1311933 (CSM) The Marlowe Memorial Theater

(Jul 14 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Plato Today

(Jul31 1933) (CSM) Vienna in the Films

Jul15 1933 (CSM) Book Review: In Order Arranged Biography of Sarah Bernhardt

Jul 31 1933 (CSM) La Compagnie Des Quinze (Aug 1 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Rising Reputations

(Jul15 1933) (CSM) Bodleian Acquires Rare Manuscript Items

(Aug 2 1933) (CSM) Australians Plan Gigantic Desert Project in North

(Jul18 1933) (CSM) Britain to Preserve 5000 Ancient Bridges For Historic Interest

Aug 2 1933 (CSM) Return of Sir Nigel Reviews of "The Fantasticks" by Edmond Rostand starring Sir Nigel Playfair; and of "Give Mea Ring"

(Ju118 1933) (WP) Maley and the Muse See (CSM) I0/7133 (July 191933) (TOT) Plato Today See (CSM) 14/7133

Aug 2 1933 (CSM) Anglo-Egyptian Characters Review of "Vessels Departing" by Emlyn Williams ("The first act is full of faults, but of faults rich in promises. If its utterance, however, is not clear, that is only because Mr Williams has such a lot to say. It is obviously better to be lacking in technique than in ideas, for technique is merely a matter of practice")

(Jul22 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Pas ton Letters Jul24 1933 (CSM) The Theater in the Theater Reviews of C. K. Munro's "Veronica" and lvor Novello's "Proscenium" (Jul24 1933) (CSM) Sound and Fury? What is poetry?

(Aug 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: New Era in International Politics

(Jul26 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Will Open Diplomacy Survive?

(Aug 5 1933) (CSM) Palestine Land Claims Question Held Difficult

(Jul26 1933) (CSM) Editorial: "Revolution" in San Marino

Aug 7 1933 (CSM) Mr Milne Changes His Tune Reviews of "Repertory Revue"; and "Other People's Lives" by A. A. Milne

(Jul27 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Dress

Aug 7 1933 (CSM) The Old Vic s Next Season

Jul29 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Christopher Marlowe Marlowe captures and expresses the American spirit

(Aug 7 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Future ofNationalism 56

(Aug 9 1933) (CSM) "Gift" Circulation Disapproved By Dailies

Chase" has done on a smaller scale, and in less sensational fashion, for the players mentioned above. Altogether this revival emphasizes the thought, which has been forgotten, to its own great loss, by a generation whose drama is unduly influenced by Mr Shaw, that a play may be intellectually puerile, and at the same time, if superlatively well presented, furnish one of the grandest experiences of the theatre") and "The Dancing Girl" by Henry Arthur Jones

Aug 10 1933 (CSM) Old Letter Proves Oxford Liked Drama (Aug 11 1933) (CSM) Editorial: A Constitutional Issue (Aug 12 1933) (CSM) Ancient Hardwick Hall to Reopen, King Told Aug 12 1933 (CSM) Book Review: She Could Write, Too The memoirs of Ellen Terry

(Aug 24 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Finishing Masterpieces (Aug 25 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Key to a Scottish Mystery

(Aug 12 1933) (CSM) Natural Science Seeks Substitutes for Wood Uses

(Aug 27 1933)(TOT) Air Speed and Safety See (CSM) 18/8/33

Aug 14 1933 (CSM) The Malvern Festival Reviews of "The Conversion of St Paul", "Gammer Gurton's Needle" by MrS., Master of Arts, and "All For Love" by John Dryden

Aug 28 1933 (CSM) Romeo at Stratford Reviews of"Romeo and Juliet"; and "The Belle ofNewYork"

Aug 14 1933 (CSM) Shakespeare via Komisarjevsky Reviews of the Stratford "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice"

(Aug 28 1933) (CSM) Two British Comedians (Aug 28 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Free Speech on the Radio

(Aug 14 1933)(BAAH) The Future ofNationalism See (CSM) 7/8/33

(Aug 29 1933) (CSM) Leading at Oxford

(Aug 15 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Birds in Britain

(Aug 30 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Affectionate Abuse

Aug 17 1933 (CSM) Plea for a National Theater A rehearsing of the arguments in favour

(Aug 31 1933)(CSM) Editorial: Too Much Metaphor? (Sept 1 1933)(MAA) Adding to Advertisements See (CSM) 21/8/33

(Aug 18 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Lion Tale

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(Aug 18 1933)(CSM) Editorial: Air Speed and Safety

(Sept 1 1933)(TOT) Key to a Scottish Mystery? See (CSM) 25/8/33

(Aug 19 1933) (CSM) London and Londoners

(Sept 2 1933) (CSM) Celtic Monastery ofDark Ages Traced In Excavations Around Tintagel Castle

(Aug 21 1933)(CSM) Editorial: Adding to Advertisements

(Sept 5 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Puns by Pundits

Aug 21 1933 (CSM) Up for Judgement Reviews of the Malvern Festival productions of "The Love Chase" by Sheridan Knowles ("Published plays that are ridiculous, and poverty stricken in imagination, may be intolerably dull to watch upon the stage; on the other hand, they may furnish an actor of genius with the very instrument best suited to his hand. This is what "The Bells" did for Irving; it is what "The Love

Sept 5 1933 (CSM) Tears and Shivers Shaw's domination of the theatre is drawing to a close and actors are now attempting to stir audiences' emotions, as opposed to their intellects Sept 5 1933 (CSM) James Bridie, British Dramatist 57

An examination of the four recent plays of this Glasgow physician

Review of "The Wandering Jew" by Temple Thurston; "As a play ... " The Wandering Jew" is about as bad as a play could well be. But those who therefore dismiss Mr Matheson Lang's revival of the piece as unworthy of serious notice make a serious mistake. The theater and the drama are not synonymous terms. Bad drama does not necessarily make bad theater. The drama is only an ingredient of the theater. Would not any rational person rather see Irving in "The Bells" than the Puddlehampton Literary and Philosophical Society's presentation of "Hamlet"? In the last resort, it is the actor, more than the author, who is essential to the theater"

(Sept 6 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Honoring an Australian Poet (Sept 8 1933) (NVVP) "Puns by Pundits " See (CSM) 5/9/33 (Sept 8 l933)(CSM) Editorial: American Invasion ofBritain (Sept 9 1933) (CSM) Purple Prose: History Not Always Good Reading Sept 9 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Shakespeare and Soap

Sept 18 1933 (CSM) Summer Theater Movement Makes Advance in England

(Sept 11 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Talking ofRuritania

Sept 19 1933 (NVVP) Shakespeare and Soap See (CSM) 9/9/33

Sept ll 1933 (CSM) The Curtain is Up A review of "Is Life Worth Living?", a funny but ultimately unsuccessful "satire at the expense of the highbrows" by Lennox Robinson

(Sept 19 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Britain's Five-Year Plan (Sept 19 1933) (CSM) Britain Seeks To Build Its Steel Industry

(Sept ll l933)(CSM) "Bitter Sweet" as a Film

Sept 19 1933 (CSM) Show Censorship Brought to Front By Radio Sketch A review of some of the strengths and anomalies of the Lord Chamberlain's role

(Sept ll 1933)(CSM) Moral Suasion, Not Prohibition Urged in Britain (Sept 12 1933) (CSM) Gracie Fields, Once Just a Mill Girl, Brings Pleasure to British Millions

(Sept 20 1933) (CSM) British Authors Pen Picture Card Essays

Sept 13 1933 (BAAH) Shakespeare and Soap See (CSM) 9/9/33

(Sept 21 l933)(CSM) Editorial: Edward Burne Jones (Sept 22 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Shirts at the Seaside

(Sept 13 1933) (OCT) Puns By Pundits See (CSM) 5/9/33

Sept 23 1933 (CSM) Editorial: A Tradition Continued A celebration of the work of the "Little Theatres", in particular that of Manchester. "Repertory has so well schooled the commercial theater that today the latter is willing to produce plays that none but repertory theaters would have dared to present a couple of decades ago". They also train actors in versatility

(Sept 13 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Emily Bronte and Today (Sept 13 1933) (CSM) Men ofLetters Show Scant Skill In Penmanship Sept 13 1933 (CSM) The World's Greatest Play "I am myself inclined to attach more weight to the theatrical than to the literary effect of a play"; "What ... I remember in the theater is not so much any single play as a whole, as isolated moments in many different dramas"; Macbeth is awarded the accolade

(Sept 23 1933) (CSM) Book Review: Mr Walpole Finishes Fresh Sept 25 1933 (CSM) The New Van Druten Play "The Distaff Side" (Sept 25 1933) (CSM) "I Was A Spy"

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Oct 9 1933 (CSM)

Sept 25 1933 (CSM)

Propaganda and the Theater

"Good Company"

Reviews of "Clancarty", a musical dramatic romance ('"'Ciancarty" . . . has a song entitled "It Might Be Worse". To which the answer is that it is conceivable, but not likely"), and "Age of Plenty" by Claire and Paul Sifton (communist, propagandist - yet unconvincingly so - and written in an expressionistic style that demands 20-30 scenes)

A review of Julian Wylie's "Good Company" (Oct 13 1933) (BAAH)

A Queen and Jillues See (CSM) 3/10/33 (Oct 13 1933) (CSM)

New English Reservoir Oct 16 1933 (CSM)

An Unsubtle Hamlet

Sept 25 1933 (CSM)

A review of Grant Yates's adaptation of Alfred de Musset's "Lorenzaccio"

Courage and Modern War Review of"The Ace" by Hermann Rossman ("It takes away the specious romance that hangs around the figure of the sensationally successful fighting man without in the slightest degree detracting from his personal integrity and courage")

(Oct 171933)(CSM)

Editorial: Curtailed Communications (Oct 18 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: Who Speaks English? Oct 21 1933 (CSM)

(Sept 25 1933) (CSM)

Book Review: The Business ofBeing Funny

Lonely Isle Tried Communism In I 817 But Quit It Four Years Later

(Oct 22 1933)(TOT)

Curtailed Communications

(Sept 26 1933) (CSM)

See (CSM) 17/10/33

Jane Austen :SO First Work Given to Oxford Library

Oct 23 1933 (CSM)

"Before Sunrise"

(Sept 27 1933) (CSM)

Jobs For Boys and Girls

A review of a translation of Gerhard Hauptmann's play

(Sept 27 1933) (CSM)

Oct 23 1933 (CSM)

The Home Forum

"Indian Summer"

(Sept 28 1933) (CSM)

A review of "Indian Summer" adapted from V. Sackville West's book, "All Passion Spent"

Fairbanks, Father and Son, Move Their Activities to London

(Oct 25 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: The Sovereign Method

(Sept 28 1933) (CSM)

(Oct 25 1933) (CSM)

Trinity College Acquires 17 Farms As Safe and Permanent Investment

Dumping System For London Cure For Sea Inroads

(Sept 28 1933) (CSM)

(Oct 25 1933) (CSM)

Only One Burns Club Answers Appeal To Help Perpetuate Language He Used

Public Men Are Coopted To British Film Institute

Sept 29 1933 (CSM)

(Oct 28 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: The New School of Critics

British Coal Plan Merges Many Mines

Oct 2 1933 (CSM) A New Way To Write Old Dramas

(Oct 28 1933) (CSM)

Bridging an Educational Gap

A review of "The Key" by R. Gore-Browne and J. L. Hardy

Oct 30 1933 (CSM)

Ballet With Play

(Oct 3 1933) (CSM)

A review of"Ballerina" by Rodney Ackland

Editorial: A Queen and Values

Oct 30 1933 (CSM)

(Oct 4 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Do We Know Where We Are?

Sheffield Repertory Theater

(Oct 6 1933) (CSM)

(Oct 31 1933)(BAAH)

Oxford Catalogue ofAll Books About Completed

See (CSM) 25/10/33

The autumn programme

The Sovereign Method

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Nov l 1933 (CSM) Stage Costumes, Play Books, Letters Tell Story of Great English Players Theatrical memorabilia

(Nov ll l933)(SOOS) Plagiarism See (CSM) 6/ll/33 (Nov ll 1933) (NVVA) Plagiarism See (CSM) 6/ll/33

(Nov l 1933) (CSM) British Savants Seek Preservation Of Cyprist Byzantine Civilization

(Nov ll 1933) (TOT) O.K.? See (CSM) 8/ll/33

(Nov l 1933) (CSM) Reign of Queen Elizabeth Is Traced In Bodleian Library Exhibit at Oxford

(Nov l3 1933) (BAAH) O.K.? See (CSM) 8/ll/33

(Nov l 1933) (CSM) Wider Censorship ofFilms Planned By British Board

(Nov l3 l933)(CSM) Editorial: Grays "Elegy" and Stoke Pages

(Nov 2 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Did Boswell See the Joke? + Editorial Notes

Nov l3 1933 (CSM) The Mercurial Nameless Theater The Nameless Theatre and a review of W. J. Turner's "Jupiter Translated" from the "Amphitryon" by Moliere

(Nov 2 1933) (CSM) Britain Will List Treasures ofArt Of Entire Empire Nov 6 1933 (CSM) Editorial: Plagiarism

Nov l3 1933 (CSM) "Command Performance" A review of"Command Performance" by Stafford Dickens ("The great days of musical comedy are apparently over; no longer has it confidence in the simple charms of song and dance; it either verges on comic opera or sinks down into unadulterated farce enlivened here and there with a trifling melody")

(Nov 6 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Animals and Censorship Nov 6 1933 (CSM) No Hint of Spring A review of "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov Nov 6 1933 (CSM) "Sheppey" A review of "Sheppey" by W. Somerset Maugham, with Ralph Richardson in the main part

Nov l3 1933 (CSM) A Play of University Life A review of"The Wind and the Rain" by Merton Hodge

(Nov 6 1933) (CSM) That s Good Talkie

Nov l3 1933 (CSM) Explaining Elizabeth A review of "The Tudor Wench" by Elswyth Thane

Nov 6 1933 (CSM) Martin-Harvey in "The Bells" A review of the play (Irving's first famous part, Mathias) by Leopold Lewis

(Nov 14 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Edinburgh University

(Nov 7 1933) (CSM) Proved Right (Nov 8 1933) (CSM) Editorial: O.K.?

(Nov 14 1933) (CSM) Doom ofAncient Trial by Jury Seen in English Court Reform

(Nov 9 1933) (CSM) Editorial: White Rabbit Welsh Rabbit?

(Nov 15 1933) (CSM) New Words for Poetry

(Nov 9 1933) (CSM) Wide Study Made To Save Beauties Of English Moors

(Nov 15 1933) (CSM) British Literary Discovery Throws New Light on Medieval Agriculture

(Nov 9 l933)(CSM) . Old Tudor Mansion Is Left to Britain

(Nov 16 l933)(CSM) Editorial: A Novelist on Novels

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(Nov 16 1933)(CSM)

(Dec 4 1933) (CSM)

Churchill Finds Research Helps Take "Blots" Off Family Escutcheons

Durham Cathedral To Be Preserved

(Nov 18 1933) (CSM)

The Films and History

(Dec 4 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: Winsconsin Looks for Wisdom

Dec 4 1933 (CSM)

(Nov 19 1933) {TOT)

"The Tempest" on the Air

Grays "Elegy" and Stoke Poges See (CSM) 13111133

Review of the BBC's production of "The Tempest"

(Nov 19 1933) (NVVA)

Dec 4 1933 (CSM)

O.K.?

The Brontes Again

See (CSM) 8/11/33 Nov 20 1933 (CSM)

A review of "The Brontes of Haworth Parsonage" by John Davison

This Shakespeare Business

(Dec 4 1933) (CSM)

A review of "This Side Idolatry" by Talbot Jennings

Central Library Of Great Britain In New Building

(Nov 21 1933)(CSM)

(Dec 6 1933) (CSM)

Sheffield Turns From Armament To Steel Needles

Old Portrait "Signed" With Double-H But Critics Doubt Hans Holbein Did It

(Nov 21 1933)(CSM)

(Dec 6 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: Medals for Poetry

Bibles and Rare MSS. Given to Cambridge

(Nov 22 1933) (CSM)

(Dec 8 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Ignorance ofPoets

Editorial: Animals in Society Nov 22 1933 (CSM)

Shakespeare Room Found in Oxford Placed Under Preservation Trust (Nov 22 1933) (CSM)

(Dec 8 1933) (CSM) Rural Britain Moves to Secure Supply of Water 1 Dec 8 1933 (CSM)

Theater Plan Aids British Stage Folk

England Goes to Other Lands To Enlarge Scope ofLanguage

(Dec 9 1933)(CSM)

Book Review: The Gordons Are Coming

(Nov 27 1933) (CSM)

(Dec 9 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: The Pig and the Poke

Labor Chides Oxford At Strict Censorship Of Student Societies

Nov 27 1933 (CSM)

Mr Bax s Henry VIII

Dec 11 1933 (CSM)

A review of "The Rose Without a Thorn" by Clifford Bax

Revues and Aristotle Andre Charlot's "Revue"

Nov 27 1933 (CSM)

"The Lady From Alfaqueque"

(Dec 13 1933) (CSM)

A review of "The Lady From Alfaqueque" by Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, adapted by Helen and Harley Granville Barker

Editorial: That Bottom Button (Dec 13 1933) (CSM)

Wordsworth Relics At Grasmere, Eng., Overflow Into Barn

(Nov 29 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: Good News for the Jungle

(Dec 15 1933) (CSM)

(Nov 29 1933) (CSM)

Editorial: Closing the Ranks

Was Dickens a Reporter on The Times, Or Was He Industrious With His Notebook?

(Dec 15 1933) (CSM)

"The Wandering Jew" Revived

(Dec 2 1933) (CSM)

Dec 18 1933 (CSM)

Editorial: Books - More Books

The English Theater in 1933 "A year of revival and revivals". The three most satisfying productions were Tyrone Guthrie's Stratford "Richard II" and Old Vic "The Cherry

(Dec 2 1933) (CSM)

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Orchard", and Jean-Jacques Bernard's "Martine". Other good work included Gordon Daviot's "Richard of Bordeaux", "The Late Christopher Bean" by Emlyn Williams, Mordaunt Shairp's "The Green Bay Tree", Anthony Armstrong's "Ten Minute Alibi", Somerset Maugham's "Sheppey" and Dorothy Massingham's "The Lake". Noted performances by Lilian Braithwaite (Ivor Novello's "Fresh Fields"), Frank Vosper ("The Green Bay Tree"), Ralph Richardson ("For Services Rendered" and "Sheppey"), Flora Robson (O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings" and Henry VIII), Raymond Massey ("The Ace") and Laurence Olivier

(Dec 27 1933) (CSM) Going to School In England Soon Like the Movies (Dec 29 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The Tide Flows Back? (Dec 29 1933) (CSM) Film ofLynching Ended by Protest OfEnglish Public (Dec 30 1933) (CSM) 1Wo British Films Dec 30 1933 (CSM) Elisabeth Bergner s Circus A review of "Escape Me Never" by Margaret Kennedy

Dec 18 1933 (CSM) Artificial Comedy And Noel Coward A review ofNoel Coward's "Hay Fever"

(Dec 30 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Detectives in Pictures

Dec 18 1933 (CSM) The Road to Athens A review ofR. E. Sherwood's "Acropolis"

(Dec 30 1933) (CSM) "Union" for Women Planned at Oxford (Jan 2 1934) (CSM) Toward Unbiased Economics

Dec 18 1933 (CSM) Lets Have the Old, Old Story A review of Edgar Holt's adaptation of Michel Achard's "Will You Play With Me?"

Jan 3 1934 (CSM) Book Review: The Theater and Mr Ervine St. John Ervine

Dec 19 1933 (CSM) The Classics Think and Then Think About Their Thoughts

(Jan 3 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Ten Years Backward

(Dec 20 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Radio in the East

(Jan 3 1934) (CSM) Rare Manuscripts And First Editions Shown In England

(Dec 21 1933) (CSM) Editorial: The New Cotton King

(Jan 3 1934) (CSM) Crown Is Blocked In Upsetting Law Of British Bench

Dec 22 1933 (CSM) Shakespeare Folio Brings Only £2800 In Sale at London

(Jan 5 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Women and Music

Dec 23 1933 (CSM) Magnificent Bungling A review of G. B. Shaw's "On the Rocks" (Shaw can "invent superb plots, and has not enough theatrical craftsmanship to run a successful charade")

(Jan 5 1934) (CSM) Coal Commission In England Orders Industry to Agree (Jan 5 1934) (CSM) Link of Cambridge and Oxford Restored By Recent Finds

(Dec 23 1933) (CSM) Fact and Fancy

(Jan 6 1934) (CSM) British Films in 1933

Dec 23 1933 (CSM) Bajjled A review of "Laburnum Grove" by J. B. Priestley

(Jan 8 1934) (CSM) Editorial: These Jesting Villages Jan 9 1934 (CSM) Editorial: The Sternest Critics Children

(Dec 26 1933) (CSM) Editorial: News Reels That Nauseate

(Jan 9 1934) (CSM) Cobden s Daughter Presents to Britain Letters ofEminent Victorians

(Dec 27 1933) (CSM) Editorial: Elizabethans and a Moral 62

Jan 9 1934 (CSM) Right and Left ofthe Stage

(Jan 22 1934) (CSM) English Society Seeks to Save Grays Church- Yard From Spoliation

(Jan 11 1934)(CSM) The Casual Day Continuing exchange with a Cambridge man on the superiority of Oxford

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(Jan 24 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The Wandering Continents (Jan 24 1934) (CSM) Justice Delays in Britain to Be Cut By Reforms

Jan 13 1934 (CSM) Thrillers and Mr Armstrong Review of "Without Witness" by Anthony Armstrong and Harold Simpson, a detective thriller

Jan 27 1934 (CSM) A La Recherche du Temps Perdu Review of"Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie

Jan 13 1934 (CSM) Back to the Sawdust Bertram Mills's circus

(Jan 27 1934) (CSM) Big Subjects and Little Ones (Jan 29 1934) (CSM) National Welfare Fostered in Aims ofBritish Films

Jan 13 1934 (CSM) New Loyalties A review of "A Present from Margate" by Ian Hay and A. E. W: Mason (at the end " ... everyone is happy, except the audience, which is somewhat embarrassed at this open acknowledgement of social values that most people act on, but very few admit without confusion")

(Feb 2 1934) (CSM) English Students Take Radical Step To Prevent War

(Jan 17 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Are Britain s Judges Independent?

(Feb 3J934) (CSM) Editorial: Art and Indus~

Jan 18 1934 (CSM) From the Imp to the Parthenon The development of drama: "The modem drama deliberately deals, not in big moments, however obtained, but in total impressions. It tries to make the garment of its prose seamless and indivisible. Its style is that of the Parthenon, in which the value of every stone lies in its relation to the sum of all the rest. It indulges neither in fine writing, nor in the effects of fine writing achieved by other means"

(Feb 3 1934) (CSM) British National Trust Preserves Manor House

(Feb 1 1934)(CSM) The Casual Day

Feb 3 1934 (CSM) 1Wo Films and a Play "The Late Christopher Bean" and "Mind the Paint" Feb 3 1934 (CSM) Conversation v Drama A review of "Genius at Home" by Elizabeth Drew and "Everything's Just the Same" by Vernon Sylvaine (who "pursues the bad old Shavian example of making his people talk about things instead of doing them")

Jan 20 1934 (CSM) First, The Unhappy Ending A review of "Beau Brummel'' by Harold Simpson and B. C. Hilliam

(Feb 5 1934) (CSM) British National Galle~ Acquires New Portraits

(Jan 20 1934) (CSM) A Pyrrhic Vlcto~

Feb 6 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Theater at Home Television will not replace the thrill of the theatre and the cinema

Jan 20 1934 (CSM) Edith Evans in a Man s Theater She sees the "development of truthfulness" as one of the great improvements in modem drama

(Feb 7 1934) (CSM) Editorial: These Unobserved Revolutions

Jan 20 1934 (CSM) Schoolboy Points to Shakespeare As Excuse for Using Double Negative

(Feb 7 1934) (CSM) The Casual Day (Feb 9 1934)(CSM) Editorial: The Novel Leads the Way

(Jan 20 1934) (CSM) British Authors Allow Writings To Be Screened 63

(Feb 28 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The Importance ofHats

(Feb 9 1934) (CSM) Translators Want More Credit Given to Their Services

Feb 28 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Time's Jests Time has rendered a performance of the melodrama "East Lynne" (see (CSM) 17/2/34) absurd

Feb 10 1934 (CSM) The Nightingales 'Night Out Review of "The Rivals" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

(Mar 2 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The Hardest Crossword

Feb 10 1934 (CSM) Painting the Lillie Reviews of "Hansel and Gretel" by Humperdinck and Andre Charlot's revue, "Please"

Mar 3 1934 (CSM) Getting Married Review of"Marriage is No Joke" by James Bridie

(Feb 16 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Poet ofMany Statures

Mar3 1934 (CSM) Back to the Nineties Review of "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

(Feb 17 1934)(CSM) Well, Well, 150-Year-0/d "Movie Show" To go on the Auction Block in London

(Mar 5 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Cromwell and Today

(Feb 17 1934) (CSM) British Challenge Hollywood Films For World Honors

Mar 5 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Repertory Comes ofAge Birmingham

Feb 17 1934 (CSM) Clive ofIndia Comes to the Stage A review of "Clive of India" by W. P. Lipscomb and R. J. Minney

(Mar 5 1934) (CSM) The Casual Day Mar 10 1934 (CSM) Answer to Keats Review of"Conversation Piece" by Noel Coward

Feb 17 1934 (CSM) The Melodrama Wins Out A review of "East Lynne" by Mrs Henry Wood

(Mar 10 1934 (CSM) When a Queen Is Not a Queen

Feb 17 1934 (CSM) "Saturday's Children " "Saturday's Children" by Maxwell Anderson

(Mar 17 1934) (CSM) Editorial: A Change ofEmphasis

(Feb 20 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The Revolt Against Jokes

Mar 17 1934 (CSM) Mostly About Leslie Henson Review of"Nice Goings On" by Douglas Furber

(Feb 23 1934)(CSM) The Casual Day

Mar 17 1934 (CSM) "L'Oiseau Bleu" Review of this play

Feb 24 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Wales's National Theater "Like the Channel Tunnel, the National Theater in Britain is a topic that seldom fails to evoke a somewhat sceptical smile"

(Mar 17 1934) (CSM) Propaganda From Palestine

Feb 24 1934 (CSM) The Elizabethans at Home Review of Emlyn Williams's "Spring 1600"

Mar 17 1934 (CSM) The Queen Who Survived Review of "The Queen who Kept her Head" by Winifred Carter

Feb 24 1934 (CSM) The Return ofBasil Dean Review of "Birthday" by Rodney Ackland

(Mar 19 1934) (CSM) The Casual Day

(Feb 27 1934) (CSM) The History Textbook That Is Yet to Be Written

Mar 19 1934 (CSM) British Theaters Lose £245,566 in Year; Pay Entertainment Tax of £340, 716

(Feb 27 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Women and Diplomacy

(Mar 20 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Morris -Idealist Extraordinary 64

(Mar 20 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Britain sPrestige Abroad

(Apr 4 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Chastising the Highbrows

(Mar 23 1934) (CSM) The Casual Day

Apr 5 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Actors Can Act Applauds the revival in acting

Mar 24 1934 (CSM) The Golden Toy Review of Carl Zuckmayer's "The Golden Toy" (''Altogether, "The Golden Toy" must have cost a moderate-sized fortune to produce - and it is extremely dull")

(Apr 5 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Wages for Housewives (Apr 6 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Hope for Improved Homes Apr 7 1934 (CSM) Beyond the Censorship Review of "The Country Wife" by William Wycherley, which highlights the anomalies of the censorship regulations, since this play falls outside the Lord Chamberlain's remit, having been written before the censorship regulations were introduced in I 73 7

Mar 24 1934 (CSM) The Theater as Battlefield Review of R. C. Sherriff's "Windfall" (Mar 26 1934) (CSM) Historic Valley In Scottish Hills Gets Motor Road (Mar 27 1934) (CSM) Steel Federation In England Agrees On Reorganization

Apr 7 1934 (CSM) The "Paycock" Revisited Review of "Juno and the Paycock" by Sean O'Casey

(Mar 28 1933) (CSM) Shoe for Either Foot Worn in Stuart Days, Sussex Find Reveals

Apr 7 1934 (CSM) Nicely Decorated Review of "Sixteen", by Aimee and Philip Stewart

(Mar 28 1934) (CSM) Universities Help Britain sJobless In Camp Schools

Apr 7 1934 (CSM) Simplicity in Poetry

(Mar 28 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Modern Manners + The Casual Day

(Apr 10 1934) (CSM) Start New Towns To Prevent Slums Is British Plan

(Mar 30 1934)(CSM) Editorial: 0, Those Shiny Toppers (Mar 31 1934)(CSM) Editorial: A Man Job

(Apr 12 1934) (CSM) Editorial: New Literary Horizons

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(Mar 311934) (CSM) "Jack Ahoy!"

Apr 14 1934 (CSM) "The Merchant of ~nice" Review of Shakespeare's play, a production that exemplifies the tendency of producers to over intrude. For example, the play opens not with the lines "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad" but "Won't you buy some flowers". "The fault of these things is that they have no value beyond their capacity or failure to amuse in themselves; they tell nothing at all of how the play as a whole has impressed Mr Bell. They do not add up into a total gesture"

Mar 31 1934 (CSM) A Restoration Revival Review of William Congreve 's "Love for Love" Mar 31 1934 (CSM) "Magnolia Street" Review of this play by Louis Golding (Apr 2 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Beware ofJokes + The Casual Day (Apr 3 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The Interesting Obscure

Apr 14 1934 (CSM) Filming Shakespeare

(Apr 3 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Why Not Film Epics?

(Apr 16 1934) (CSM) Olney Church Nave Made Cowper Shrine

(Apr 3 1934) (CSM) Free Rental Plan in Leeds is Based On Ability To Pay

(Apr 18 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Kindness to Words 65

May 5 1934 (CSM) "The Laughing Woman" Review of this play by Gordon Daviot

Apr 18 1934 (CSM) The Theater Comes Back in Europe "Whole of New York Enjoys Best Season in Years, Europe Supports Stage in Battle With the Cinema for Supremacy . . . Players, Not Playwrights, Lead the Way"

May 5 1934 (CSM) Not by Tchekov A review of Oscar Hammerstein 's "The Three Sisters"

Apr 21 1934 (CSM) Beware of Cleverness Review of"Good Morning, Bill" by P. G. Wodehouse

May 5 1934 (CSM) Now a Brighter London Review of"Sporting Love" by Stanley Lupino

Apr 21 1934 (CSM) ... But Is It Art? Review of"Double Door" by Elizabeth McFadden

(May 7 1934) (CSM) Films for Adults Only Protested in Britain

(Apr 23 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Conversational Training

(May 7 1934) (CSM) Larger Hainault Forest Is Plan ofLondon County

(Apr 24 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The Honors System

(May 8 1934)(CSM) Editorial: New Beauty Standards

(Apr 25 1934)(CSM) Editorial: New Jobs For Old

(May 8 1934) (CSM) Nouveaux Modeles de Beaute

(Apr 25 1934) (CSM) London v Hollywood

(May 8 l934}(CSM) Plans to Augment Work Campaign Urged in England

(Apr 27 1934) (CSM) Editorial: The First Gossip Writers

(May 9 1934) (CSM) Anti- War Moves Increase Support Of Pacifist Cause

(Apr 27 1934) (CSM) Selborne Improved By British Group

May 9 1934 (CSM) Shakespearean Plays Triumph Once More on Europe s Stages

Apr 28 1934 (CSM) Lets Get This Straight Review of "The Drums Begin" by Howard Irving Young

(May 11 1934) (CSM) "Auld Lang Syne" Not Sung Correctly

Apr 28 1934 (CSM) A Few Crackers Review of "Indoor Fireworks" by Arthur Macrae

(May 11 1934) (CSM) Bequest Aids Art Study (May 11 1934) (CSM) Victorian Classics Found Most Popular With English Youth

(Apr 28 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Are There No Walkers? (Apr 30 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Government by the People?

(May 12 1934) (CSM) Apparel ofKings and Queens Displayed at London Museum

(May 2 1934)(CSM) Nationalism in Art Protested in London

May 12 1934 (CSM) "Counsellor-at-Law" Review of this play by Elmer Rice

May 3 1934 (CSM) Ought Politicians and Waiters in a Play Be Acted by Real Ones?

May 12 1934 (CSM) Law Courts and Drama Review of"Libel" by Edward Woolf

(May 4 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Jane Austen s Popularity

(May 14 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Some "Snorters"

(May 5 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Revolution by Education

(May 15 1934) (CSM) Swedish Travel By Rail and Air Wins Third Place

(May 5 1934)(CSM) Water for Manchester To Cover English Village

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(May 15 1934) (CSM) Thackeray Letter Brings £600 at Sale

May 24 1934 (CSM) Dramatic Festivals in British Provinces Offer Wide Choice ofPlays to Visitors

(May 15 1934) (CSM) Lead Mine in England Returns Gold to Owners

(May 24 1934) (CSM) Great Tom of Sherbourne Hauled Home By Villagers After Third Recasting

(May 16 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Watchword or Catchword?

(May 25 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Books and Safety Razors

May 16 1934 (CSM) Hammers Herald Music Halls Passing In Piccadilly Circus

May 26 1934 (CSM) The Decline of the Revue

(May 17 1934) (CSM) Toward Safer Roads in Britain

(May 26 1934) (CSM) Walt Disney: An English View

May 19 1934 (CSM) Dear Brutus Review of "Biography" by S. N. Behrman ("Mr Laurence Olivier . . . is one of the rapidly diminishing number of English actors who believe in letting the audience hear what they have to say")

May 26 1934 (CSM) Silences Review of"The Lawyer and the Roses" by Jerzy Szaniawsky May 29 1934 (CSM) Book Review: Realism All the Way (May 31 1934) (CSM) Works of a "Modern Poet" Given to British Museum

(May 19 1934) (CSM) "Man ofAran" May 19 1934 (CSM) The Aftermath of Shaw Review of "Dark Horizon" by Lesley Storm ("Sometimes we almost wish that Mr Shaw had become a playful politician instead of a political playwright. Some men are witty, and some are the cause of wit in others. Mr Shaw unhappily is the cause in others of profound dulness and singular dramatic ineptness. At the end of the nineteenth century he preached the salutary doctrine that plays should contain ideas. This has been held by many worthy and clever people to mean that if you have ideas, then you also have a play. This fallacy is exemplified in "Dark Horizon", the new play at Daly's theater, a warning against war which ends with an imaginative foretaste of what a gas attack on London might be like. Now, propaganda for peace is, in itself, laudable. But it is not, in itself, sufficient justification for writing a play. Plays are not justified by the excellence of their moral, but by the degree of appropriate dramatic pleasure which arises from the inculcation of that moral")

Jun 4 1934 (CSM) Future Playwright Made Strong Appeal At Fifteen for Needed New "Cloaths"

(May 22 1934) (CSM) Tiny Book of "Rubaiyat" Given to Oxford Library

(Jun 5 1934) (CSM) Harvard and Yale "Go Oxford"

(May 23 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Words- Mere Words

(Jun 6 1934) (CSM) Bell On School Calls Villagers To Public Phone

(May 23 1934) (CSM) British Museum Gets Copy ofBede s History

(Jun 6 1934) (CSM) Yorkshire Revamps Hearts Of'!Wo Cities

May 31 1934 (CSM) Gifts Keep Theater Open (Jun I 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Costume Films (Jun 2 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Wives of Great Men Jun 2 1934 (CSM) Ibsen and Ice Cream Review of"The Master Builder" by Henrik Ibsen Jun 2 1934 (CSM) Mr Coward as Satirist Jun 2 1934 (CSM) Shoulder to Shoulder Review of"Ladies in Waiting" by Cyril Campion (Jun 4 1934)(CSM) Loudspeakers to Pay Carlyle Tribute As London Marks Silent Sages Entry

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(Jun 6 1934) (CSM) George Eliot Home In English Vicarage Planned as Memorial

from a mental springboard, into depths of feeling that the dictionaries cannot plumb. When at his best, Mr Bernard shows that of all the forms of eloquence the most truly expressive is the inarticulate")

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(Jun 7 1934) (CSM) Editorial: To Publish- When?

Jun 9 1934 (CSM) "The City of Ships" Review of this play by Mary D. Sheridan

(Jun 7 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Masterpieces by Mistake (Jun 7 1934) (CSM) Music and Peace Offer Harmony To Mankind, Polish Violinist Says

Jun 12 1934 (CSM) Oxford Play Directed By Woman Violates University Tradition

Jun 7 1934 (CSM) Oxford to Present Play at Salzburg

(Jun 14 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Time for New Technique in Writing

(Jun 7 1934)(CSM) English Town Grows After Eight Centuries

(Jun 15 1934) (CSM) "John" Leads Parade of Names Picked by Fond British Parents

Jun 9 1934 (CSM) The Edwardians A review of Harley Granville Barker's "The Voysey Inheritance" ("A comparison of "The Voysey Inheritance" with the plays ofMr Bernard Shaw, under whose immediate influence it was written, forces itself upon the attention. Like Mr Shaw, Mr Barker shows a passionate desire to discuss in argumentative form all· the social and moral implications of his characters' actions. If we say that he does not accomplish this as well as Mr Shaw does, it merely means that he falls somewhat short of the excellence in this particular aspect of dramatic art" but "It is an odd thing, that Mr Shaw's plays, which are perhaps as triumphant an example of logic as anything in the English language, rarely convince. It would be absurd to say of Mr Shaw, whose intellectual fertility is one of the greater marvels of the twentieth century, that his characters are people of one idea. But they are, far too often, people of one idea at a time. They act from a motive. That is perhaps why we so rarely believe in their actions. For people in real life act not on a motive, but on a complex of motives. Into even the most elementary action there enters a world of confused, conflicting impulses and ideas. By isolating a single one of these ideas, and exposing it with a brilliant lucidity, Mr Shaw adds to the intellectual clarity of his plays, but detracts from their dramatic veracity")

Jun 16 1934 (CSM) Russia to England: Via Paris A review of "Crime et Chiitiment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky Jun 16 1934 (CSM) A Circle Without a Centre A review of"Touch Wood" by C. L. Anthony Jun 16 1934 (CSM) Editorial: A Theatrical Duet (Jun 18 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Overcoming Babel (Jun 18 1934) (CSM) Beetles Still Bells In Beamed Belfry Of Old Saxon Church

(Jun 18 1934) (CSM) London Top Hat Club Finds Wearing Them Cheaper Than in I 797 (Jun 21 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Smoothing the Royal Road (Jun 22 1934) (CSM) Editorial: After 2400 Years (Jun 22 1934)(CSM) Novel Attractions Increase Travel By Railroad in Britain (Jun 22 1934) (CSM) Bf!lgium Public Libraries Nearly Double in Decade

Jun 9 1934 (CSM) What Words Cannot Do Review of "The Springtime of Others" by JeanJacques Bernard (c.f. with the later Pinter: "The whole object and aim of his art is to induce in his audience a frame of mind so alert and perceptive that its members leap from the clipped, broken and disjointed words of his dialogue, as it were

(Jun 23 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Bursting Into Tears Jun 23 1934 (CSM) Blenheim and All That Review of"Viceroy Sarah" by Norman Ginsbury 68

Jun 23 1934 (CSM)

(Jul12 1934) (CSM)

Mathematics and the Drama

League Has Plans To Help Children Hit by Depression

Review of Galsworthy's "The Roof" Jun 23 1934 (CSM)

(Jul12 1934)(CSM)

A Continental Importation

British Industry Moves Southward In Steady Flow

Review of the musical "Happy Week End" (Jun 27 1934) (CSM)

(Jull6 1934) (CSM)

Famous Derbyshire Tract Is Given To British People

Editorial: How Does England Do It?

(Jun 27 1934) (CSM)

Manchester Sees King George Open Central Library

(Jul17 1934) (CSM)

Slum Clearance In Leeds Extends To New Furniture

(Jul17 l934)(CSM) Editorial: The Clubs ofLondon

(Jun 27 1934) (CSM) Mirrored Puppets From Austria Give Novelty To British

(Jull8 1934) (CSM) More Men Teachers For Training Boys Needed in England

(Jun 28 1934) (CSM)

Jul18 1934 (CSM)

"Black-Coats" Join British Societies To Find New Jobs

Moods in Conflict

Review of"Mrs McConaghy's Money" by Hugh Quinn

(Jun 30 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Art for Morals' Sake

Jull8 1934 (CSM)

Jun 30 1934 (CSM)

Book Review: Farrow Fields ofDrama

Political Speeches in "Coriolanus" Too Exciting for French Audiences

(Jull9 1934) (CSM) Editorial: For Courage, Too

(Jun 30 1934) (CSM)

(Jul21 1934) (CSM)

Pens ofAll Ages Seen by Visitors To British Exhibit

Editorial: Back to Aristotle

(Jul23 1934) (CSM)

(Jun 30 1934) (CSM)

British "Ramblers " To Preserve Lakes

The Roof of the World

(Jul23 1934) (CSM)

Jun 30 1934 (CSM)

Audience has Key To Better Films, Industry Claims

The First Mary Stuart Arrives

Review of"Queen of Scots" by Gordon Daviot

(Jul24 1934) (CSM)

(Jul2 1934) (CSM)

Editorial: The Importance of Commas

Editorial: The Credentials ofBiography

Jul 28 1934 (CSM)

(Jul 5 1934) (CSM)

Mr Gielgud Returns

Blind in Manchester Have Hiking Club

Review of"The Maitlands" by Ronald Mackenzie, with John Gielgud

(Jul6 1934) (CSM) "Three English Lakes For Sale"; Appeal Made For Public Fund

(Jul30 1934) (CSM) English Ramblers To Guard Beauty Of Lake District

Jul7 1934 (CSM) Mr Shaw Returns to Form

(Jul30 1934) (CSM)

Review of"Village Wooing" by G. B. Shaw

Editorial: Magic and Verse

(Jul 7 1934) (CSM)

(Jul30 1934) (CSM)

Editorial: Films and Internationalism

Editorial: The Power ofMetaphors

(JuliO 1934) (CSM)

(Aug l 1934) (CSM)

Richard III, Not Henry VII, Now Accused Of Slaying Edward V and Duke of York

Editorial: The Heart of England

(Julll l934)(CSM)

Memorial Window to Hymnist Unveiled in English Chapel

(Aug l 1934) (CSM)

Editorial: Because It Happened?

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(Aug 2 1934) (CSM) Poet and Essayist Honored in London Centenary Show

(Aug 16 1934)(CSM) Origin of Scots Law Sought By English Jurists' Society

(Aug 3 1934) (CSM) Editorial: A Hundred Million More Letters

Aug 16 1934 (CSM) London Theater For Sale

Aug 4 1934 (CSM) Shaw Disputes Froissart Review of G. B. Shaw's "The Six of Calais" (Hobson feels that Shaw's best plays are "Candida", "Heartbreak House" and "Androcles")

(Aug 17 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Shall We Write Latin? Aug 18 1934 (CSM) Lackey-and-Lady Comedy Review of "My Lady Wears a White Cockade" by Ronald Gow

Aug 4 1934 (CSM) By the Thames Review of "The Pageant of Parliament"

Aug 18 1934 (CSM) "Interlude " and Faustus "

Aug 4 1934 (CSM) Actors and Managers

Aug 24 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Democracy and the Drama

(Aug 4 1934) (CSM) "Blue John" in London Museum Recalls Pliny s Vasa Murrina

(Aug 25 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Really Memorable Poetry

(Aug 6 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Waterloo and its Promise

(Aug 28 l934)(CSM) Editorial: Armaments and Courage

Aug 6 1934 (CSM) "The Little Man" Review of this play by John Galsworthy

(Aug 29 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Music Hall (Aug 30 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Lets Tune Our Instruments

(Aug 8 1934) (CSM) Films ofEngland (Aug 8 1934) (CSM) Morte d'Arthur Mss

Sept 1 1934 (CSM) "Sour Grapes " High on Vine Review of "Sour Grapes" by Vincent Lawrence

(Aug 8 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Releasing British Intellect

(Sept 5 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Checking Cruelty in Films

(Aug 9 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Positive Film Improvement

(Sept 7 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Persia and Auctions

(Aug 9 1934)(CSM) Bench in London Churchyard Offered as Memorial to Lamb

Sept 7 1934 (CSM) De Valera Withdraws Ban on Irish Plays Sept 7 1934 (CSM) Right and Left of the Stage " ... to appraise the theater, which is essentially a poetic art, by the rigid standards of political economy is to offer it more than the show of violence by applying a radically inappropriate standard of judgement. It is like going to a football match so that the flight of the ball may give information concerning the nature of the parabola. To regard football as a commentary on mathematics is no more foolish than to demand of the theater that it be a gloss on the social situation"

(Aug 10 1934) (CSM) Duchess of York Opens Sheffield Art Gallery Aug 11 1934 (CSM) An English ~rsion Review of "La Prisonniere" by E. Bourdet (a private performance of a censored play) Aug 11 1934 (CSM) In Jerusalem, 33 A.D. Review of"A Man's House" by John Drinkwater (has to refer obliquely to Jesus because the censorship regulations forbid a portrayal of the Deity)

Sept 8 1934 (CSM) Sleight ofHand Review of"Family Affairs" by Sydney W. Carroll

(Aug 13 1934) (CSM) Slump in Wordsworth 70

Sept 8 1934 (CSM) Heroine Led Captive Reviews of "Admirals All" by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall and "She Shall Have Music" by Frank Eyton

Sept 15 1934 (CSM) The "Moon" at Malvern Review of "The Moon in the Yellow River" by Denis Johnston (Sept 17 1934) (CSM) Editorial: New Forms ofBeauty

Sept 8 1934 (CSM) "Colonel Wotherspoon" Review of this play by James Bridie

(Sept 18 1934) (CSM) Trends of Humor in Britain Shown at Punch Exhibit

(Sept 8 1934) (CSM) 1Wo New British Films

(Sept 18 1934) (CSM) Editorial: A Universal Language

Sept 9 1934 (CSM) Melodrama Review of "Queer Cargo" by Noel Langley

(Sept 19 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Thought in the Films Sept 22 1934 (CSM) An Early Waterloo A review of"Napoleon" by Alfred Sangster

Sept 10 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Drama and Melodrama (Sept 13 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Poets ' Wastebaskets

(Sept 22 1934) (CSM) Ethics ofAdaptation

Sept 13 1934 (CSM) Mrs Siddons Memorialized at Shoulder of Mutton Inn

(Sept 22 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Undoing Coke s Work (Sept 25 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Defenders ofDialect

(Sept 15 1934) (CSM) English Cathedrals Enlarged to Hold Growing Congregations in Many Areas

(Sept 28 1934) (CSM) Editorial: A New King Arthur

(Sept 15 1934) (CSM) Monks Drawing of Comet in Psalter Sets Date 1145 for Canterbury Book

Sept 29 1934 (CSM) Keith Winter A review of Keith Winter's new play, "The Shining Hour"

Sept 15 1934 (CSM) Blackbirds- English View Review of"Blackbirds of 1934" (musical)

Sept 29 1934 (CSM) Mr Priestley s New Play Review of "Eden End"

Sept 15 1934 (CSM) On Contradicting Oneself Review of "French Salad" by Max Catto. "It presents a shiftless, feckless, upper middle-class family, in which the son fancies himself as an actor, the daughters go in for art and the mother dithers expensively through it all while the bill is footed by a weary father out of the proceeds of something in the City to which no one pays any attention till it goes smash. Then follow complications with the least plausible stage diamond sharper we have ever seen which land the unhappy set of incompetents into ever deeper and deeper trouble. All this is amusing enough. We have seen this family in the theater many times before, and there is no real reason why we should ever see it again, because it does not react to circumstances in any way possessing significance; but its futility and inability to face up to hard knocks pass the evening not unpleasantly")

Sept 29 1934 (CSM) History v Drama Review of "Rose and Glove" by Hugh Ross Williamson (Oct 2 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Pieces d'Occasion (Oct 2 1934) (CSM) State Scholars Win Many Honors (Oct 3 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Napoleon- and Today Oct 5 1934 (CSM) Editorial: The State and Art Oct 6 1934 (CSM) Napoleon Revenged Review of "Josephine", a comedy in three acts from the German of Hermann Bahr by Emlyn Williams 71

Oct 6 1934 (CSM) Phrases All the Way A review of"Who's Who?" by P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton ("The plot develops with a desperate slowness, and its farcical situations have an ancestry almost as long as that of the Droitwiches themselves")

A review of "Hyde Park Comer" by Walter Hackett (Oct 31 1934)(CSM) British Naturalists Up All Night Find Lark Begins Song Before Dawn (Nov 1 1934)(CSM) Editorial: The Finest Sentence?

(Oct 6 1934)(CSM) New British Films

(Nov 2 1934) (CSM) Movie Leaders See Better Future "By a British Commentator"

(Oct 6 1934)(CSM) Editorial: "Documentary" Films

(Nov 3 1934)(CSM) New Shelley Poems Found Among Old Family Papers

(Oct 8 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Athletics for Authors (Oct 8 1934) (CSM) Return to Oxford

Nov 3 1934 (CSM) The Cambridge Festival Theater

(Oct 8 1934) (CSM) Queen Keeps Custom by Planting Tree

(Nov 3 1934)(CSM) Historical Films- New Style

(Oct 13 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Emily or Branwell?

(Nov 3 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Chairs of Chivalry

Oct 19 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Bringing Literature Into Drama

(Nov 10 1933) (CSM) "Jew Siiss" Filmed

Oct 20 1934 (CSM) Mr Howes and Mr Henson

Nov 10 1934 (CSM) A Modern Othello A review of "The Sulky Fire" by Jean-Jacques Bernard

Oct 20 1934 (CSM) Pirandello and the Stars A review of Luigi Pirandello's "As You Desire Me"

(Nov 15 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Greek Shorthand

Oct 20 1934 (CSM) "Streamline" A review of C. B. Cochran's Revue, "Streamline"

Nov 17 1934 (CSM) Repertory Comes to West End Nov 17 1934 (CSM) Catching Them Out A review of "Line Engaged" by Jack de Leon and Jack Celestin

(Oct 20 1934) (CSM) The Ideal Teacher- a Student Portrait (Oct 20 1934) (CSM) Old Oak Beams Or Chromium Plating?

Nov 17 1934 (CSM) Matinee Idol Into Actor A review of"Lover's Leap" by Philip Johnson

Oct 27 1934 (CSM) Ibsen Re-Viewed A review of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" ("When "An Enemy of the People" was first written its originality seemed to lie in its being a tract on municipal corruption, thus giving rise to all sorts of false theories of the theater as a factor in social life. Whereas its genuine originality lay in its presenting against a modem background one of the oldest stories in the world - the ancient and satisfactory spectacle of a man losing the whole world but gaining his own soul")

(Nov 24 1934) (CSM) The Last ofthe Millionaires Nov 24 1934 (CSM) Diana fJYnyard in "Sweet Aloes" A review of Jay Mallory's "Sweet Aloes" (Nov 24 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Test for Cinema (Nov 26 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Painters vs. Poets

Oct 27 1934 (CSM) Flouting the Rules

(Nov 27 1934) (CSM) Editorial: English Public Schools 72

Nov 28 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Rediscovering Handel

"Magnolia Street", Elmer Rice's "Counsellor-atLaw", S. N. Behrman's "Biography" and Keith Winter's "The Shining Hour" are all mentioned; "Ten Minute Alibi" by Anthony Armstrong (780 consecutive performances) and "The Wind and the Rain" by Merton Hodge were the two long runners

Dec 1 1934 (CSM) Universities Come to the Drama (Dec 1 1934) (CSM) Came the Camels

Dec 22 1934 (CSM) A New St. Joan, and Other Items Reviews of "Saint Joan" by G. B. Shaw, "Journey's End" by R. C. Sherriff, "Lady Precious Stream" by S. I. Hsiung, "For Ever" by Noel Langley and "The Three Cornered Moon" by Gertrude Tokonogy

Dec 1 1934 (CSM) Gate Crashing the Banks A review of "Youth at the Helm", a comedy in three acts by Hubert Griffith (Dec 4 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Patriotism (Dec 6 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Sociology and Spelling

Dec 24 1934 (CSM) Shakespeare Knew the Evil of Drink And Has Hamlet Speak Out Against It

Dec 8 1934 (CSM) Phrases Are Not Enough A review of "Moonlight is Silver" by Clemence Dane

(Dec 26 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Foot/ighting the Path to Peace (Dec 27 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Hebrew Renaissance

Dec 8 1934 (CSM) Young Mr Disraeli A review of this play by Elswyth Thane

(Dec 28 1934) (CSM) First Women Enter Oxford Union Rooms

(Dec 10 1934)(CSM) No Puns, Please

Dec 29 1934 (CSM) Haifa Clown A review of"Halfa Crown" by Douglas Furber

(Dec 10 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Elementary, My Dear Watson

Dec 29 1934 (CSM) Just For Fun: the Amateur Stage

(Dec 13 1934)(CSM) Editorial: Pushing Ahead

Jan 3 1935 (CSM) Editorial: The Clown

(Dec 15 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Drought in Tears

(Jan 5 1935) (CSM) Exile at Home

Dec 15 1934 (CSM) A Modern "Treasure Island" A review of "Mary Read" by James Bridie and Claud Gurney

(Jan 5 1935) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: An English View of Films

Dec 15 1934 (CSM) The Rise of a Star A review of"Flowers of the Forest" by John Van Druten

(Jan 7 1935) (CSM) Editorial: He Was Not Discouraged

(Dec 18 1934) (CSM) Editorial: Catchwords

Jan 12 1935 (CSM) Reply to Ibsen A review of "The Dominant Sex" by Michael Egan

(Jan 9 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Aristocracy Between the Lines

Dec 18 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Stage and Screen -New Allies

Jan 12 1935 (CSM) Those Smiles A review of"Blackbirds 1935"

Dec 20 1934 (CSM) Editorial: Sir Arthur Pinero Dec 22 1934 (CSM) Some Plays of 1934 in London "Very few plays of any but the most momentary importance" in 1934; James Bridie's "Marriage is No Joke", Noel Coward's "Conversation Piece",

(Jan 15 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Breaking Down the Prejudice Jan 16 1935 (CSM) Editorial: The Circus 73

(Jan 19 1935) (CSM) The Classics -a Modern View

Feb 9 1935 (CSM) Three Actors Charles Laughton, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson all bear witness to the returning dominance of the actor

(Jan 19 1935) (CSM) For Scottish Lads ofHigh Ability

(Feb 9 1935) (CSM) "Lorna Doone" Filmed

(Jan 21 1935) (CSM) Leeds Sells Furniture For Corporation Homes

Feb 11 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Masterpieces in One Act

(Jan 23 1935) (CSM) Art Museums Gain In Britain Through Collections-Fund

(Feb 12 1935) (CSM) Editorial: "Seacoast of Bohemia "

(Jan 19 1935) (CSM) British Films of 1934

(Jan 24 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Accolade to Industry (Jan 24 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Let Us Be Critical

(Feb 12 1935) (CSM) English Education During Year 1934 (Feb 14 1935)(CSM) Editorial: The Problem ofEggs

(Jan 26 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Democracy in Education

Feb 15 1935 (CSM) Book Review: The Regisseur Speaks Theodore Komisarjevsky

Jan 26 1935 (CSM) Musical Comedy and the Aesthete A review of "Jill, Darling!", a new musical comedy: the simple tunes of musical comedy are a "poor substitute" for mellifluous verse writing

Feb 16 1935 (CSM) It Survives the Crossing Review of "Theater Royal" by Edna Furber and George Kauffman (Feb 16 1935) (CSM) "Twenty Years After"

Jan 26 1935 (CSM) The Boom in Tragedy

(Feb 18 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Laughter Learnt of Friends

(Jan 26 1935) (CSM) A Popular English Film

Feb 19 1935 (CSM) Editorial: A National Theater

Jan 26 1935 (CSM) The Irish Players

(Feb 23 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Ideas First, Words Chase After

(Jan 26 1935) (CSM) British Survey Art Progress

Feb 23 1935 (CSM) Edward Moulton-Barrett A review of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" by RudolfBesier

(Jan 26 1935) (CSM) Queen Mary College Jan 28 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Meter or Idea? (Jan 29 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The Well ofEnglish

Feb 23 1935 (CSM) Summers Lease A review of "Summer's Lease" by Winifred Howe

(Feb 1 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Pastures New

(Feb 25 1935) (CSM) Editorial: A Film Library

(Feb 2 1935)(CSM) British Trade Rise Reflected in Start Of Corby Steel Plant

(Feb 26 1935) (CSM) Editorial: More Peeps at Pepys

(Feb 2 1935)(CSM) Those Six Kings of Canterbury Identified by Old Manuscript

Mar 2 1935 (CSM) An Attempt to Revive Variety There are now only two music halls left in all London

(Feb 5 1935) (CSM) Editorial: "The Londonderry Air"

Mar 2 1935 (CSM) Neglect of a Dramatist

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A review of "Days Without End" by Eugene O'Neill

(Mar 30 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Diamonds From the Dustheap

Mar 2 1935 (CSM) Careers and the Home A review of the comedy, "Between Us Two" by Dudley Leslie

Mar 30 1935 (CSM) "Stop Press" A review of this revue by Clifford Whitley (Mar 30 1935) (CSM) Editorial: A Ia Recherche

(Mar 5 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Scots Demand Latin

(Apr 1 1935) (CSM) Editorial: When Princes Pipe

Mar 5 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Against Theater Gambling

Apr 2 1935 (CSM) Current Artistic Events A review of"Jack 0' Diamonds", a musical play by Clifford Grey and H. F. Maltby

Mar 9 1935 (CSM) "Love on the Dole " A review of this play by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood, enthusiastically commended

(Apr 3 l935)(CSM) Europe and Cambridge

Mar 9 1935 (CSM) Oxford Amateur Drama Society Counts Many Noted Men on Roll

Apr 6 1935 (CSM) Current Artistic Events Review of "Mrs Nobby Clark" by Murray MacDonald and Gilbert Lennox

(Mar 18 1935) (CSM) Britain Recalls "Forgotten M.Ps" Of Former Days

(Apr 6 1935) (CSM) Able Scholars from Germany

(Mar 18 1935) (CSM) Editorial: O.K.O Kayed?

Apr 6 1935 (CSM) Intellectual Drama A review of a revival of "Major Barbara" by G. B. Shaw (the chief defect of Shaw's prose "is what Mr Shaw himself considers its principal merit - that it says so precisely and vividly what it means. Really great prose or poetry always says more, and it is this overplus that gives it its value."). This is a major critique of Shavian theatre

Mar 18 1935 (CSM) "Giaconda" A review of this play by Gabriele D' Annunzio Mar 18 1935 (CSM) "The Convict" A review of this play, adapted from Dickens's "Great Expectations" by C. E. Openshaw and Ethel Dickens

Apr 8 1935 (CSM) Current Artistic Events A review of "Worse Things Happen at Sea" by Keith Winter

Mar 19 1935 (CSM) Editorial: A Question ofRomance (Mar 20 1935) (CSM) Editorial: To Print or Not to Print?

(Apr 9 1935) (CSM) Graduates and Jobs

Mar 23 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Art and Nationalism

(Apr 9 193 5)(CSM) The Wide Horizon: "Poor Men and Good Scholars"

(Mar 23 1935) (CSM) Hogarth and Clowns Mar 23 1935 (CSM) Back to Devonshire A review of Jan Stewer's comedy, "Barnet's Folly"

(Apr l3 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Dialect and Diction

(Mar 27 1935)(CSM) Editorial: These Degrees

Apr l3 1935 (CSM) Casuistry and K. C.s A review of "There Go All of Us" by John Hastings Turner

(Mar 28 1935) (CSM) Britain and Opportunity

Apr l3 1935 (CSM) Prompters in Front

(Mar 29 1935) (CSM) An Oxonian Tribute to Cambridge

(Apr 15 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Art Wins a New Ally 75

Apr 17 1935 (CSM) British Drama s Revival "Movement Centering Around Shaw and Galsworthy Gave Author Dominance - Actor of Late Has Reasserted Old-Time Power": national overview

May 13 1935 (CSM) . What s Going on in the Arts: Hebrew Natwnal Theater (May 13 1935) (CSM) Book Review: Oxford and the Sonnets

(Apr 19 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Horace and Today

May 15 1935 (CSM) British National Theater Move Gains Headway Under Group Asking Public Gift of £350,000

Apr 20 1935 (CSM) That Turn of the Screw Touch A review of"Frolic Wind" by Richard Pryce

(May 16 1935)(CSM) Editorial: The First English "Centenarian" (May 171935)(CSM) Editorial: Cambridge Calls the World

Apr 20 1935 (CSM) Macbeth in Business A review of "Cornelius", a new play by J. B. Priestley; "easily his best", written for Ralph Richardson

May 17 1935 (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Democratic Tendencies in Art (May 18 1935) (CSM) Magic and Magicians

(Apr 22 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Fact or Fiction- What ofIt?

May 18 1935 (CSM) Back to Caesar A review of "1 066 and All That" by Reginald Arkell

(Apr 23 1935) (CSM) Editorial: No More Villains (Apr 23 1935)(CSM) The Wide Horizon: Censorship

May 18 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Intellect and the Theater

(Apr 25 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Poetry Unawares

May 25 1935 (CSM) Circus Into Theater

Apr 26 1935 (CSM) Editorial: A New Way With Shakespeare?

(May 29 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Revival ofEnglish Music

Apr 27 1935 (CSM) Whats Going On in the Arts: Four Years of Repertory The Embassy theatre in Hampstead

(May 31 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Magna Charta (sic) Jun 1 1935 (CSM) In Old Vienna Review of"Dancing City" by Mr Charlot

(May 3 1935) (CSM) Tourists in Britain Need Sharp Wits

Jun 2 1935 (CSM) Mistaken Identity A review of the musical comedy, "Gay Deceivers"

May 4 1935 (CSM) "The Old Ladies " A review ofthis play by Rodney Ackland

Jun 2 1935 (CSM) No Gate Crashing A review of Lord Longford's "Yahoo"

May 4 1935 (CSM) Stories and Storytelling A review of"The Aunt of England", a new play by Cosmo Hamilton and Anthony Gibbs

(Jun 5 1935) (CSM) Editorial: A Supreme Court of Taste

(May 4 1935) (CSM) "Charlot s Char-a-Bang"

(Jun 7 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Peripatetic Pictures

May 4 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Appeal To Barrie (May 9 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Hats, Where Are Your Rabbits? (May 13 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Inspiration and the Jubilee

(Jun 8 1935) (CSM) Propaganda and the Screen · Jun 8 1935 (CSM) Attack On Two Fronts A review of "The Mask of Virtue" by Ashley Dukes 76

(Jun 10 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Dignity in Service

(Jul 17 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Reconstruction

(Jun 14 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Art for Competition s Sake

(Ju119 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Workshop for Cinema

(Jun 15 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The Proof of Guilt

(Ju120 1935) (CSM) Bellini in a Film

(Jun 15 1935)(CSM) A Discouragingly Good Film

Jul 20 1935 (CSM) "Love Laughs " A review of this play by Clifford Grey and Greatrex Newman

Jun 15 1935 (CSM) A Ia Recherche du Temps Perdu A review of"Hervey House" by C. R. Avery

Jul 24 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Shutters Coming Down

(Jun 15 1935) (CSM) A Modern Revenge

(Ju126 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Up With the Lark

(Jun 17 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Movie-Made Opinions

Jul27 1935 (CSM) The Value of the Amateur

(Jun 21 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Pyramidal Prehistory

Jul27 1935 (CSM) "Noah" in London A review of "Noah" by Andre Obey (trans. by Arthur Wi1murt)

(Jun 22 1935) (TOI) Democratic Tendencies in Art See CSM 17/5/33

(Jul27 1935) (CSM) "The 39 Steps"

(Jun 25 1935) (CSM) Editorial: 850 Words

Jul27 1935 (CSM) Whats Going On in the Arts A review of "The Two Mrs Carrolls" by Martin Vale and "Close Quarters" by W 0. Somin

Jun 29 1935 (CSM) Character and Mystery Plays Emlyn Williams's "Night Must Fall" (Jul2 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The Reader Takes a Hand

(Jul29 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The English Reformation

(Jul3 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Letters? Print Them?

(Aug 1 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Laws That Helped

Jul6 1935 (CSM) The Gilt Standard A review of the musical comedy, "Anything Goes"

(Aug 2 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Progress, Technical and Artistic (Aug 3 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Speaking ofMetaphors

Jul8 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Drama in the Cathedral

Aug 9 1935 (CSM) Editorial: New Tales for Old

Jull3 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Renewal ofPartnership

(Aug 10 1935)(CSM) Rene Clair on the Film s Future

Jul13 1935 (CSM) A Platitude Restated A review of Merton Hodge's new play, "Grief Goes Over"

(Aug 10 1935) (CSM) The Hulbert Chin

(Jull3 1935) (CSM) Women Enter Oxford Union

Aug 12 1935 (CSM) Shakespeare Issue Takes New Turn In Favor of Bard

(Jul15 1935) (CSM) Editorial: New Instruments ofEducation

(Aug 17 1935)(CSM) For Better Films

(Jul16 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The League and Mickey Mouse

Aug 17 1935 (CSM) The Drama and Per Lindberg 77

(Aug 21 1935) (CSM) The Wide Horizon

Sept 14 1935 (CSM) Variety and Individualism

Aug 24 1935 (CSM) This Desirable Residence A review of this play by A. J. Rawlings

(Sept 17 1935)(CSM) Editorial: The Macleods

Aug 24 1935 (CSM) A New Policy at Malvern

Sept 21 1935 (CSM) "Full House" A review of this new play by Ivor Novello

(Aug 24 1935) (CSM) A British Film Repository

Sept 21 1935 (CSM) Sir Cedric Hardewicke s Garrick

Aug 26 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Down the Years With Faust

(Sept 21 1935)(CSM) What s Going On In the Arts

(Aug 27 1935) (CSM) Britain Forbids Sale by Auction Of Heroes' Papers

(Sept 21 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Dice for Decisions (Sept 24 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Modified by Spades

(Aug 28 1935) (CSM) Editorial: A Poet of Epigram

(Sept 24 1935) (CSM) New Entrance Tests

(Aug 30 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Living and Learning

(Sept 24 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Art and Everyone

(Aug 31 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Golden Tales for Silver Screen

(Sept 26 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Protection for Cinema

Aug 31 1935 (CSM) Ibsen "Ghosts" Reevaluated A review of Per Lindberg's production

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Sept 28 1935 (CSM) The Decline of Scenery A review of Andre Charlot's Revue "Stop ... Go"

Aug 31 1935 (CSM) New, by Barrie Aug 31 1935 (CSM) "TUlip Time" A review of this musical comedy

(Sept 30 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Wordsworth Silk Hat

(Sept 4 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Not Blue Books Only

Oct 1 1935 (CSM) Getting Things Straight

Sept 7 1935 (CSM) A Lesson for Kings Counsel A review of"The Unguarded Hour" by Bernard Merivale

Oct 1 1935 (CSM) "The House ofBorgia" Review of this play by Clifford Bax

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(Oct 1 1935)(CSM) In Praise ofEngland: Book News of the Day

Sept 7 1935 (CSM) "Tovarich" A review of this comedy

Oct 1 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Flags and Footlights

Sept 11 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Reprieve of the "Silver Tassle"

(Oct 8 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The Best Film

(Sept II 1935) (CSM) Wordsworth Museum Opens in Grasmere

(Oct 10 1935)(CSM) The Wide Horizon: Universities Call for Peace

(Sept 12 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Cruelty to Audiences

Oct 14 1935 (CSM) Editorial: The New Abbey Theater

Sept 14 1935 (CSM) Editorial: The Theater as a Calling

Oct 15 1935 (CSM) "Peer Gynt"- New fersion A review of a new translation of Ibsen's play by R. Ellis Roberts

Sept 14 1935 (CSM) Round About Regent Street 78

(Oct 15 1935) (CSM) What Going On In the Arts

Oct 29 1935 (CSM) What Going On In the Arts A review of James Parish's "Distinguished Gathering"

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(Oct 16 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Criticism - Spur to Endeavour

Oct 29 1935 (CSM) "The Black Eye" A review ofthis play by James Bridie

Oct 19 1935 (CSM) What Going On In the Arts A review of "Nina" by Bruno Frank (trans. Hubert Griffin)

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Oct 29 1935 (CSM) Tragedy and the Common Man A discussion of the stage adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes"

(Oct 22 1935) (CSM) Salute to Cambridge Oct 22 1935 (CSM) "The Dance ofDeath" A review of W. H. Auden's staged work (""The Dance of Death", Mr W. H. Auden's brilliant, and, in my opinion, entirely successful, attempt to work out for the theater a new, significant artform, may, in the strictest sense of the term, prove epoch-making. This, however, depends far less upon its intrinsic merits than on what is to be done in the same line in the future by Mr Auden and his followers . . . He takes that most frivolous of entertainments, the musical comedy, and transforms it so that it becomes an instrument for the serious drama of which the potentialities, in his skilful handling, seem illimitable")

Oct 29 1935 (CSM) Comedy ofManners A review of "Lady Patricia", an Edwardian Comedy by RudolfBesier Oct 29 1935 (CSM) Miss Lorne Carries On (Oct 30 1935) (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts (Oct 30 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Opponents Help (Nov l 1935) (CSM) Skilled Engineering ofEarly Britons Shown in Fort and Stone Monuments (Nov 6 1935) (CSM) ManofFilms

(Oct 22 1935) (CSM) Editorial: East Comes West

(Nov 9 1935) (CSM) Editorial: The Contemporary Past

(Oct 22 1935) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Working Students in Britain

Nov 12 1935 (CSM) German Acting and British

(Oct 23 1935) (CSM) Editorial: What the Film Public Wants

(Nov l3 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Votes and Microphones

(Oct 23 I 935) (CSM) Whats Going On In the Arts

(Nov 14 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Friendly Nationalism

(Oct 23 1935) (CSM) Britain s No. 10 Downing Street Has 200- Year History

(Nov 16 1935) (CSM) Medievalism in New Guise

(Oct 24 1935) (CSM) Editorial: New Fame for the Famous

(Nov 16 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Miles ofBooks

(Oct 26 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Another Dimension for Movies?

Nov 19 1935 (CSM) These Emotional English The young director, Michel Saint-Denis, explains that the theatre is the sole medium of neither the actor, as in the days of Irving, nor of the author, as in the middle period of Shaw. "Theatrical art is collective, not individual, reaching its highest development in the harmonious co-operation of player, playwright and designer. To this end his students are trained in not only the conventional methods of acting but in singing, dancing and mime"

Oct 27 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Why Not the Theater? Oct 28 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Amateur Influence on the Stage Oct 28 1935 (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts Review of "Please, Teacher!", featuring Bobby Howes 79

Nov 21 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Filming Shakespeare

(Dec 17 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Harmony Amid Turmoil

(Nov 23 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Lamb - the Lion-Hearted

Dec 17 1935 (CSM) Book Review: The Playhouse ofPepys

(Nov 25 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Ballet Finds Its Feet

(Dec 18 1935) (CSM) Horseshoes Paid as Yearly Rent Of London Smithy Since 1235

Nov 26 1935 (CSM) Call It a Play! A review of"Call it a Day" by Dodie Smith

Dec 24 1935 (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts A review of "Our Own Lives" by Gertrude Jennings

Nov 26 1935 (CSM) Acting Shakespeare Dec 3 1935 (CSM) "Seeing Stars" A review of this show by Leslie Henson

(Dec 24 1935)(CSM) M.A. Oxon. -Magna Cum Ceremony (Dec 24 1935)(CSM) An Island Cathedral

Dec 3 1935 (CSM) A Second Mrs Fraser A review of "Short Story" by Robert Morley

Dec 24 1935 (CSM) Play for a Cathedral A review of T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"

(Dec 3 1935) (CSM) University Degrees In Great Britain (Dec 4 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Mystery Plus

(Dec 24 1935) (CSM) A Romantic View of War

(Dec 9 1935) (CSM) The Tunnel

(Dec 26 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Samuel Butler- Children s Friend

Dec 9 1935 (CSM) Royal Command and The Prince of Comedians Review of the Royal Performance and P. G. Wodehouse's "The Inside Stand"

(Dec 28 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Out, Toppers! (Dec 28 1935) (CSM) A Lyrical Motorist

Dec 9 1935 (CSM) Whats Going On In the Arts A review of "Murder Gang" by George Munro and Basil Dean

Dec 30 1935 (CSM) Editorial: Pantomime Once a Year Dec 31 1935 (CSM) Hey Presto

Dec 10 1935 (CSM) "Anthony and Anna " A review of this comedy by St. John Ervine

(Jan 2 1936) (CSM) Editorial: A New Testament Fragment

Dec 10 1935 (CSM) Waterloo Into Austerlitz A review of "The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov

(Jan 7 1936) (CSM) Editorial: What Children Read (Jan 7 1936) (CSM) The Old, Old Stories

Dec 12 1935 (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Religion and Entertainment (Dec 13 1935)(CSM) Words, Words, Words

Jan 7 1936 (CSM) The Theater in Europe: Greece

(Dec 13 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Why Rule-of-Thumb?

(Jan 13 1936) (CSM) Socrates to Chaplin

(Dec 14 1935) (CSM) Editorial: Cherishing Cheeses

Jan 13 1936 (CSM) Editorial: Rush to Shakespeare

(Dec 16 1935)(CSM) Editorial: Welcome Invasion

(Jan 14 1936) (CSM) Films in Caithness 80

Jan 14 1936 (CSM) The Best British Plays of 1935 "The Wind and the Rain" by Merton Hodge (over 900 performances) and "Lady Precious Stream" by S. I. Hisung are the longest runners; other successes include "Please, Teacher!", "Seeing Stars", "Call it a Day", Gielgud's "Romeo and Juliet", "Short Story", "Love on the Dole", "Frolic Wind", "The Old Ladies", "Cornelius", "Anything Goes" and "Tovarich"

Feb 4 1936 (CSM) Mr Coward in a New Field (Feb 4 1936) (CSM) "The Ghost Goes West" (Feb 7 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Sanctions Stop the Clock Feb 8 1936 (CSM) What Going On In the Arts A review of"The School for Scandal"

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(Jan 15 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Piccadilly Circus

(Feb 10 1936) (CSM) Etonians Throng British Commons: Sextet in Cabinet

Jan 15 1936 (CSM) British Cancel Theater Tax On Plays of Stage Society (Jan 17 1936) (CSM) Quality Films Win in Vote OfBritish Public

Feb 11 1936 (CSM) Tonight at 8:30- Second Series Would Noel Coward's plays be better if he did not act in them?

(Jan 20 1936) (CSM) What Going On In the Arts

Feb 11 1936 (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts

Jan 21 1936 (CSM) These Comedians

Feb 13 1936 (CSM) Editorial: School for Critics

(Jan 22 1936) (CSM) Editorial: People Still Read!

(Feb 17 1936)(CSM) Editorial: Film Guide to Literature

(Jan 22 1936) (CSM) Back to Scott

(Feb 18 1936) (CSM) "The Amateur Gentleman"

(Jan 23 1936) (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts

Feb 18 1936 (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts A review of"No Exit" by George Goodchild and Frank Witty

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(Jan 23 1936) (CSM) Editorial: (Un)historical Films

(Feb 18 1936)(CSM) The Inn at Sligachan

(Jan 23 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Linguistic Kindness

(Feb 19 1936) (CSM) "The Dog Beneath the Skin"

(Jan 24 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Examinations Examined

Feb 24 1936 (CSM) What s Going On In the Arts A review of "St Helena", a new play by R. C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis

(Jan 27'1936) (CSM) British System Of Examinations Held Discredited (Jan 27 1936) (CSM) Editorial: A Sense ofBeauty

(Feb 25 1936) (CSM) Documentary Films

Jan 28 1936 (CSM) The Poetic Drama

Feb 25 1936 (CSM) "Follow the Sun " Review of this Revue by Charles B. Cochran

Jan 29 1936 (CSM) Book Review: Home Life of the Tudors (Jan 29 1936) (CSM) Copyright Rules To Protect Films Advised by Board

Mar 3 1936 (CSM) "Storm in a Teacup " A review of this play by James Bridie, a trans. of "Sturm im Wasserglas"

(Feb 1 1936)(CSM) Editorial: Pegasus Draws a Dray

(Mar 4 1936)(CSM) Editorial: Rising to the Occasion 81

(Mar4 1936) (CSM) Scott Novel Safe

majority of Britain's 50,000,000 inhabitants. Thus the dramatist is able to discuss economic problems of universal interest, while at the same time dressing his characters in all the agreeable paraphanalia of evening gowns and dinner jackets; £1000 a year, in fact, seems to be the only stage income that satisfies equally the average eye and the ordinary pocket"

(Mar 5 1936) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Progress in Kindness (Mar 5 1936)(CSM) Rudyard Kipling- Lyric Poet (Mar 10 1936) (CSM) Tracing Film-Motifs

Mar 26 1936 (CSM) Whats Going On In the Arts A review of"Promise" by H. M. Harwood

(Mar 10 1936) (CSM) "Jack ofAll Trades" Reviews of this film and "At the Silver Swan" by Guy Bolton and Clifford Grey

(Mar 30 1936) (CSM) Editorial: The Halls of Oxford

Mar 13 1936 (CSM) Whats Going on in the Arts? A review of a stage adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"

(Mar 31 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Poetic Salvage (Mar31 1936)(CSM) Pickwick and His Cronies Re-enact Scene of Century Age

(Mar 17 1936) (CSM) Should the Movies Talk?

Apr 2 1936 (CSM) Editorial: Realism- Dramatic Blight?

Mar 17 1936 (CSM) Editorial: Authors in the Way

(Apr 4 1936)(CSM) Editorial: A King of Comedy

Mar 21 1936 (CSM) Revues and Lord Acton "Spread It About"

(Apr 6 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Seeing Beauty

Mar 23 1936 (CSM) Editorial: Wanted- A Shakespeare Essayist

(Apr 6 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Guarding England$ English

Mar231936(CSM) Electoral Critics in Britain Strive For Vote Equality

(Apr 7 1936) (CSM) Training Ground of Great Debaters (Apr 7 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Letters and the Law

Mar231936(CSM) London Alters Dick Whittington Claim But "Howlers in Stone" Still Persist

Apr 7 1936 (CSM) "Dusty Ermine" A review of the play by A. R. Whatmore

(Mar 24 1936) (CSM) Wells on the Screen

Apr 7 1936 (CSM) A Low Comedian of a High Order A review of "The Town Talks" by Vivian Ellis and Arthur Macrae

Mar 26 1936 (CSM) Why £1000 a Year? A review of "Children to Bless You" by G. Sheila Donisthorpe. "It is a piece that raises no questions, except, perhaps, the old but never really answered inquiry, why dramatists love to write about people with incomes of roughly £1000 a year. A majority of people in England have not such an income, yet it is the background to half a dozen or more plays running in London at the present moment, including "The Dominant Sex", "Distinguished Gathering", "Anthony and Anna" and "Call it a Day". Partly, no doubt, the explanation lies in the fact that £1000 a year is about the upper limit of the incomes on which the financial worries remain recognizably similar to those encountered by the

(Apr 8 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Good Films for Bad (Apr 9 1936) (CSM) Appropriate Settings (Apr 11 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Common Men Apr 14 1936 (CSM) "Wisdom Teeth" A review of the play by Noel Streatfeild (Apr 15 1936) (CSM) Signposts in Essex

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(Apr 17 1936) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Stones That Speak

May 19 1936 (CSM) Mr Laughton in France

(Apr 18 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Wages of Government

(May 19 1936) (CSM) "Tudor Rose"

(Apr 19 1936) (CSM) College Paradox

(May 20 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Harvard in the English Mold

(Apr 20 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Scholastic Centenarian

(May 22 1936) (CSM) Renaming a Province

(Apr 21 1936) (CSM) Cambridge- Five Lengths

May 261936 (CSM) "Rise and Shine" A review of this play by Harry Graham and Desmond Carter

(Apr 25 1936) (CSM) Where Kings Are Taught

May 26 1936 (CSM) "Bees on the Boat Deck" A review of this new play by J. B. Priestley

(Apr 27 1936)(CSM) Editorial: Technique of Obstruction (Apr 28 1936) (CSM) British Isles Have Firm Hold Upon Affections of the Tourist

May 26 1936 (CSM) 0 'Neill in London A review of"Ah, Wilderness!" by Eugene O'Neill

May 5 1936 (CSM) Essay in Fantasy A review of "The Happy Hypocrite", a play in words and music by Clemence Dane and Richard Addinsell

Jun 2 1936 (CSM) Politics in the Theater

(May 5 1936) (CSM) The Turnings We Passed By

Jun 2 1936 (CSM) Comedian :S Majority

(May 6 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Building for Beauty

Jun 3 1936 (CSM) The New Shavian Trio

(May 6 1936) (CSM) What :S Going On In the Arts

(Jun 3 1936) (CSM) Rhapsody on Rusticity

(May 7 1936)(CSM) Editorial: Industry Under Glass

Jun 8 1936 (CSM) Editorial: Britain Eases Its Censorship

(May 8 1936) (CSM) The 1Wo Languages

(Jun 9 1936)(CSM) 1Wo New Spy Films

(May 12 l936)(CSM) Railways and Resorts Prepare For Tourist Boom

Jun 9 1936 (CSM) Critics ' Plays

(May 27 1936) (CSM) A Summer :S Day

(May 13 1936) (CSM) Temple-Boswell Letters Found

(Jun 10 1936) (CSM) Early English Visitor Found Boston a Pleasant Village; But "Lions "Presented Problem

May 14 1936 (CSM) Straight From the Shoulder

Jun 10 1936 (CSM) Editorial: Plays and Parties

May 14 1936 (CSM) The 0. UD.S. in Richard II

(Jun 12 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Poems in Search ofAuthors

(May 14 1936) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Decline in Tears

(Jun 12 1936) (CSM) Middle Ages Had Comic Strips

May 19 1936 (CSM) After October A review ofthis play by Rodney Ackland

(Jun 17 1936)(CSM) Queens Quadrangle At Oxford Restored To Original Design 83

(Jun 17 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Britain s Next Prime Minister (Jun 17 1936) (CSM) Art in the Cinema? Well ...

Aug 11 1936 (CSM) But It Has Gusto "Springtide" Aug 18 1936 (CSM) The Future of Shaw

(Jun 18 1936) (CSM) Worlds to Live In

Aug 25 1936 (CSM) The Brontes at Malvern

(Jun 20 1936) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Is War Anti-Christian? (Jun 22 1936) (CSM) Editorial: The Lure ofIslands (Jun 25 1936) (CSM) Positively No Stop at Ecclefechan (Jun 27 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Addresses

Sept 1 1936 (CSM) These Little Things Sept 15 1936 (CSM) Deductions From a Song Sept 22 1936 (CSM) Radiocasting and the Drama Sept 29 1936 (CSM) To One Thing Constant

(Jun 30 1936) (CSM) Failure of a Tragedy

(Oct 6 1936) (CSM) Montage and Metaphor

(Jul1 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Pioneers Jubilee

Oct 20 1936 (CSM) Romantic Into Classics Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex"

(Jull 1936) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Detective Stories

Oct 27 1936 (CSM) Its a Riot

Jul 7 1936 (CSM) Economic Partnership

Nov 10 1936 (CSM) Full Circle

Jul 7 1936 (CSM) A Play ofDiscussion Only A review of the BBC production of Clifford Bax's "Socrates"

Dec 11936 (CSM) The Censor and Parnell "Parnell" by Elsie T. Schauffier

(Jul8 1936) (CSM) A Hiatus in Time

Dec 15 1936 (CSM) The Advance ofMelodrama

(Ju1 9 1936) (CSM) I Am Introduced

Dec 22 1936 (CSM) 1Wo Kinds of Simplicity Marc Connelly's "The Green Pastures" and T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"

(Jul9 1936) (CSM) Editorial: Cinema Comes to the Novel (Jull5 1936)(CSM) Shelley Hailed As Composer OfAnonymous Poem

Dec 29 1936 (CSM) A Thirty Year Novelty

(Jull6 1936)(CSM) The Infant Takes the Road

Jan 5 1937 (CSM) Bergner and Barrie Review of J. M. Barrie's "The Boy David"

(Jul16 1936)(CSM) Editorial: Beauty in Stone

(Jan 12 1937) (CSM) ... But Not Conrad

(Jul21 1936)(CSM) What is a British Film?

Jan 19 1937 (CSM) 1936 in the London Theater

(Jul28 1936) (CSM) Footnotes to a Lecture

Jan 26 1937 (CSM) Shilling Shockers on the Stage

Aug 4 1936 (CSM) ':4 Bridge for the Unicorn "

(Feb 23 1937) (CSM) British Films Look Ahead 84

Mar 2 1937 (CSM) Mr Cochran and Revues

(Apr 28 1937) (CSM) The Coronation Spectacle

Mar 9 1937 (CSM) Why Two Plays Failed

(Apr 29 1937)(CSM) Editorial: Man ofLetters

Apr 6 1937 (CSM) Does It Sing? Shaw's "Heartbreak House"

(Apr 30 1937) (CSM) Scenes That Spell Days ofRelaxation (Apr 30 1937) (CSM) Britain Ready To Display Its Many Charms

(Apr 20 1937) (CSM) Grenville, Elizabeth, Ivanhoe

May 7 1937 (CSM) Editorial: Trollope to Shakespeare sAid

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) Roosevelt Letter to Monitor Extends Goodwill to Britain

May ll 1937 (CSM) London Flocks to Police Plays

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) Royal Homes: Their Story Is Britain s

(May 11 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Justice for Cuckoos!

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) Crown s Influence

(May 12 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Can He Do It?

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) Winchester

(May 12 1937) (CSM) The Loneliest Road

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) Coronation Ceremony: Within the Abbey

(May 12 1937) (CSM) Our Friends, the Mountains

(Apr 22 1937)(CSM) Democratic Pageantry

(May 13 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Art and Coronation

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) The Archbishops

(May 14 1937) (CSM) In Search of Cambridge

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) In Such a Coach a King May Ride On a Day of Days

(May 18 1937) (CSM) Efficiency and the Films

(Apr 22 1937) (CSM) Of Poets On Kingly Office A Crown, Sister, Is Not So Heavy An Expensive Route Queen Consort Is Crowned at Order Of the King Alone Beneath Formality Coronations Have Their Human Side Abbey Builds Leaders Coronation Salutes A Beacon Greeting Coronation Guests Pepys at the Coronation Radio Unifying Spoken English Of the People First Queen Crowned George IS English Invited by Royal Command

(May 19 1937) (CSM) Cornish Dancers Repeat Fete ofMedieval Days (May 21 1937)(CSM) Britain Pledges Aid to Push Film Industry (May 24 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Quota and Quality (May 25 1937) (CSM) Wanted May 25 1937 (CSM) The Ascent ofMr Auden A review of"The Ascent ofF6." by W H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood: '"'The Dance of Death" marked an epoch in the development of the modern English theater. It marked an epoch, not because it was in itself an outstanding achievement - though it had many positive and intrinsic merits - but because it blazed what might be considered an entirely new trail in the serious drama. It took the trivial form of musical comedy, and used it to valid artistic ends." Hobson found "The Dog Beneath the Skin" dull. In "F6" the "characters ... are not abstractions;

(Apr 27 1937) (CSM) Fiction in Documentary (Apr 28 193 7)(CSM) The Train at Lostwithiel (Apr 28 1937) (CSM) Incidental to an M.A. 85

they are real individuals, reacting to definite and comprehensive problems in a definite, comprehensible and dramatic way"

Jun 22 1937 (CSM)

Costume- and Why Not? A review of "He Was Born Gay" by Emlyn Williams

(May 29 1937) (CSM)

Jun 25 1937 (CSM)

The Sea

Editorial: Poetry Plays, and Pays

(May 29 1937) (CSM)

Jun 29 1937 (CSM)

Passing Through Amesbury

Breaking the Rules

(May 29 1937) (CSM)

(Jun 29 l937)(CSM)

Editorial: Pensions for the Great

To Students of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh Certain Professors Are Touchstones

(Jun 1 1937) (CSM)

Oxford's Bodleian Spreads Out

Jun 30 1937 (CSM)

(Jun 3 1937) (CSM)

Book Review: 0 'Casey and His Cudgel

Editorial: Can the Cinema Survive?

(Jul1 1937) (CSM)

(Jun 3 1937)(CSM)

Old Films Found in Attics Prized by British Institute

Quiller Couch in Triumph

(Jul6 1937) (CSM)

(Jun 4 1937) (CSM)

Smythe and the Coo/ins

The Wide Horizon: Woman's Place in Britain's Sun

(Jul8 1937)(CSM)

Editorial: Words for War

(Jun 4 1937) (CSM)

(Jul9 1937) (CSM)

Cornwall and Its Crown Ties

Domesday Book ofthe Films

(Jun 7 1937) (CSM)

(Jul9 1937) (CSM)

The Sense of the Past

Paintings Artist Could Not Sell Valued Now at Fabulous Sum

Jun 8 1937 (CSM)

Wanted- Dramatists

(Jull3 1937) (CSM)

"The London stage has rarely lacked dramatists of varied skill so badly as it appears to do at the present moment" (only one work of genius "The Ascent of F6")

Editorial: Superlatives (Jul13 1937) (CSM)

The Wide Horizon: Is British Education Succeeding?

(Jun 10 1937) (CSM)

Jull3 1937 (CSM)

Editorial: Good Will for Weeds

Entertainment and Instruction

(Jun 14 1937) (CSM)

Reviews of "The Great Romancer" and "Satyr"

Poetry and the Cinema

(Jull3 1937) (CSM)

(Jun 15 1937) (CSM)

OfRegional Writers

Color Comes to British Films

(Jul 14 1937) (CSM)

Jun 15 1937 (CSM)

World Church Parley Urged To Thwart Pagan Secularism; U.S. Hopeful Vision Praised

Pleasure in the Theater

(Jul 17 1937) (CSM)

No contemporary works "provide that quiet, ineffable sense of peace which comes, generally, from the speaking of verse, whose rhythms and expected regular harmonies respond to an inner need, giving the feeling experienced when the sun shines down on a wide expanse of untroubled ocean, with not a breath stirring"

Editorial: Armies and Police Jul20 1937 (CSM)

Miss Day's High Noon A review of Mr Beverley Nichols's new revue, "Floodlight" (Jul21 1937) (CSM)

(Jun 18 1937) (CSM)

Cheshire to Cornwall

Editorial: Fiction Only?

Jul27 1937 (CSM)

(Jun 18 1937) (CSM)

Return to the Classics

Revolution in the Nursery

John Gielgud 86

(Aug 28 1937) (CSM) "Quota Quickies" Irk Britain; Higher Film Budgets Asked

(Jul28 l937)(CSM) A Man Harrowing Clods (Jul28 1937) (CSM) Neutrality in Spanish War British Issue IOO Years Ago

Aug 31 1937 (CSM) The Birth of a Plot

(Jul29 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Glorious Defeat

(Sept 10 1937) (CSM) The Marsh

(Aug 2 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Foreseeing Stars

(Sept 10 1937)(CSM) Thomas Hardy Turns to Poetry

Aug 3 1937 (CSM) Brisk Stage Import Trade OUDS' production of"Women of Property"

Sept 13 1937 (CSM) Editorial: Only Shakespeare? Sept 14 1937 (CSM) Time and the Dramatists Reviews of "Old Music" by Keith Winter and "Time and the Conways" by J. B. Priestley

(Aug 5 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Mudie 's (Aug 6 1937) (CSM) Inventor ofEsperanto Honored

Sept 15 1937 (CSM) Site for Shakespeare Theater Acquired by British Sponsors

(Aug 6 1937) (CSM) British Fans Frown on War Films

(Sept 22 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Learning -After Lamplight

(Aug 7 l937)(CSM) Talking of Wells

Sept 28 1937 (CSM) Realism and Melodrama Reviews of "Gertie Maud" by John Van Druten and "Wanted for Murder" by Percy Robinson and Terence de Marney

Aug 10 1937 (CSM) Cricket and Critics (Aug ll 1937) (CSM) Seed Place of Christianity

(Sept 29 1937) (CSM) Home of English Pictures

(Aug 12 1937) (CSM) Documentary Film Needs Protection Under Quota Act

(Sept 30 1937) (CSM) School Stories

(Aug 14 1937) (CSM) C/issold as Signpost

(Oct I 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Dartmoor

(Aug 17 193 7) (CSM) Charity Carnival

Oct 5 1937 (CSM) A Question of Skill A review oflvor Novello's "Crest of the Wave"

Aug 17 1937 (CSM) Winter Sports and Summer Heats A review of Elmer Rice's "Judgement Day", about the Reichstag trial

(Oct 9 1937) (CSM) Foreign England (Oct ll 1937) (CSM) Editorial: The Tramp ShujJles Off

(Aug 18 1937) (CSM) People and Places the World Over

(Oct 12 1937) (CSM) New Worlds

(Aug 19 1937) (CSM) Tin Mines of Cornwall Re-Opened to Meet Big World Demand

(Oct 12 1937) (CSM) Sidewalk Interview

(Aug 21 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Britain and the Invader

(Oct 12 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Fortune to the Touch

Aug 241937 (CSM) "Comus" at Regent's Park

(Oct 13 1937) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Both Sides of the Medal

(Aug 26 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Britain and America's Past

(Oct 13 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Brazil Under Censorship 87

Oct 15 1937 (CSM) Theater Festivals Acquire Lecture Habit in England

Nov 23 1937 (CSM) A Philosophical Comedy A review of Kenneth Horne's "Yes and No" ("the most amusing comedy I have seen in London for the last six years")

Oct 19 1937 (CSM) A Matter ofAccent

(Nov 24 1937)(CSM) Editorial: Colonies? Prescient article about ambitions

(Oct 21 1937) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Literary Journalism (Oct 23 1937) (CSM) Educating Educators

Hitler's

territorial

(Nov 24 1937) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Ethics, Politics and Natural Science

(Oct 26 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Douglas and Percy

Nov 30 1937 (CSM) Why One Play Failed James Parish's "Goodbye to Yesterday" ("tragedy should proceed out of a defect in the character of a great man")

Oct 26 1937 (CSM) Playwright ofIdeas A review of Shaw's "Pygmalion" and J. B. Priestley's "I Have Been Here Before" (Nov 1 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Another Million

(Dec 1 1937) (CSM) Editorial: The Third Corner

(Nov 2 1937) (CSM) Novel Changes in the 1Wentieth Century

(Dec 1 1937)(CSM) Town of Make Believe

Nov 2 1937 (CSM) Victoria in the Theater

(Dec 4 1937)(CSM) British Seek to Loosen US. Hold on Films

(Nov 3 l937)(CSM) What Makes Film Popular?

Dec 7 1937 (CSM) A Failure From Mr Dukes "House of Assignation"

(Nov 4 1937)(CSM) Nuffield, Oxford Benefactor, Has Given Away £[ 0, 000, 000

(Dec 8 1937) (CSM) Editorial: The Other Fellows Case

(Nov 8 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Critic ofEurope

(Dec 9 1937) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: History s Right Angle Parallel

Nov 9 1937 (CSM) Three Thrillers "The Phantom Light", "The Dead Hand" and "Blonde White"

(Dec 11 1937)(CSM) Editorial: Air-Conditioned M.P.s (Dec 13 1937)(CSM) Little Known Oxford

(Nov 9 1937) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: What s Wrong With This Picture?

Dec 14 1937 (CSM) 0 'Neill and London A review of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra"

(Nov 11 1937)(CSM) Editorial: Lest We Forget (Nov 12 1937) (CSM) Editorial: Poetry and Imperialism

(Dec 15 1937) (CSM) Britain to Raze Ancient Gaol Once Prison of US. Sailors

(Nov 15 1937) (CSM) Editorial: The Most Important Film?

(Dec 171937)(CSM) Editorial: Axes in Europe

Nov 16 1937 (CSM) A Theatrical Boom in London Reviews of"Hide and Seek", "Autumn", "Punch and Judy" and "The Laughing Cavalier"

Dec 28 1937 (CSM) Poetry in the Theater (Dec 28 1937) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: National Culture- a New Weight in the Tariff Scales

(Nov 20 1937)(CSM) Editorial: A Peal ofBells 88

(Jan 3 1938) (CSM) Editorial: The Scots Greys

(Feb 15 1938)(CSM) Its the Same Story

Jan 4 1938 (CSM) Sheridan Afresh "The School for Scandal"

(Feb 15 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Poor Tactics

(Jan 5 1938) (CSM) The Bodleian Looks Ahead Jan 11 1938 (CSM) Plays ofthe London Year "During 1937 there were several long arid stretches in which nothing worth seeing was put on in London theaters. Yet there were 11 productions absolutely first rate of their kind: "George and Margaret", "Yes and No", "Going Greek", "Candida", "Measure for Measure", "Macbeth", "The Silent Knight", "Time and the Conways", "I Have Been Here Before", "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "The Ascent ofF6""

(Feb 19 1938) (CSM) "Snow White" and the Children (Feb 19 1938) (CSM) Matthew Arnold and the Bible Feb 21 1938 (CSM) Finance and the Theater (Mar 1 1938) (CSM) Taking Time for a Ride (Mar 5 1938) (CSM) Quota Act Delay Hampers British Cinema Industry (Mar 5 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Britain and Europe

Jan 12 1938 (CSM) Book Review: Born to the Theater

Mar 8 1938 (CSM) Worlds Within Worlds A review of Merton Hodge's "The Island"

(Jan 12 1938) (CSM) I Think With Aristotle (Jan 13 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Maiden Speeches

(Mar 9 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Books to the Left and Right

Jan 18 1938 (CSM) The Irving Centenary

Mar 9 1938 (CSM) British Stage Stars Join In Recalling Days of Irving

(Jan 25 1938) (CSM) British Films Enter 1938

(Mar 10 1938) (CSM) Playing to the Gallery

(Jan 28 1938) (CSM) A British View of the Ludlow Referendum (Jan 28 1938) (CSM) English Cathedral Presents Talkies

Mar 15 1938 (CSM) A Scholar in the Theater Reviews of "Land's End" by F. L. Lucas and "Black Swans" by Geoffrey Kerr

(Jan 31 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Giorgione or Another

(Mar 16 1938) (CSM) Crisis in British Films

(Feb 7 1938)(CSM) Dwopping the R in Sheffield

Mar 19 1938 (CSM) Swift as a Shadow

Feb 7 1938 (CSM) In the Theater

(Mar 23 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Splendor of the Bible

(Feb 8 1938) (CSM) Editorial: As the Romans Did?

(Mar 25 1938) (CSM) Editorial: School Stories

(Feb 111938) (CSM) Story ofa Film

(Mar 26 1938) (CSM) Editorial: "Recessional"

(Feb 12 1938) (CSM) Strolling Students ofMiddle Ages In Modern Guise

(Mar 26 1938) (CSM) Unique Things in Britain (Mar 28 1938) (CSM) Co-Operative Film Project Launched in British Studio

(Feb 12 1938)(CSM) For Guide -An Original Book of Travel 89

Mar 29 1938 (CSM)

(May 9 1938) (CSM)

Economy in Playwriting

Editorial: Jubilee

A review of"Dodsworth"

(May 10 1938)(CSM)

Beauty of Environment As a Teacher

Apr 5 1938 (CSM)

"The King ofNowhere"

(May ll 1938) (CSM)

A review ofthis play by James Bridie

Editorial: Make It Harder

(Apr 5 1938) (CSM) British Film Firms Discover Rich Market Right at Home

(May 14 1938) (CSM)

British Shires Vie in Offering Finest Views May 17 1938 (CSM)

(Apr 6 1938) (CSM)

In the Grand Manner

Editorial: Hope for Aristocrats

Lilian Braithwaite

Apr71938 (CSM)

(May 24 1938) (CSM)

Stage and Cinema Tax in Britain Is Strongly Resented

Editorial: Ties

(Apr 12 1938) (CSM)

Road to Hartland

(May 24 1938) (CSM)

Home of Clans Call to Poets and Tourists

(May 24 1938) (CSM)

Apr 12 1938 (CSM)

Oxford on the London Screen

Evolution ofa Sentimentalist

(May 25 l938)(CSM)

Noel Coward, "evolved from a cynical playwright into a sentimental producer"

World Marks Wesley Bicentenary

(Apr l3 1938) (CSM)

(May 28 1938) (CSM)

Music in the Street

Editorial: Protect the Coast

(Apr 19 1938) (CSM)

(May 28 1938) (CSM)

Centuries-Old Oxford Submits To Builder's Trowel and Plumb

Pictures of the Past (Apr 20 1938) (CSM)

May 31 1938 (CSM)

Films Facts Versus Fancies

Follies - 1Wo Brands

(Apr 25 1938) (CSM)

Review of "People of Our Class" by St. John Ervine

Old Village Tagged

(Jun 1 1938) (CSM)

Apr 26 1938 (CSM)

Charlie's Lost Again

"Idiot's Delight" in London

(Jun 6 1938) (CSM)

A review of this play by Robert Sherwood

Editorial: Wells for Milton

(Apr 26 1938) (CSM)

(Jun 7 1938) (CSM)

A Few Figures From London

Woman Journalist Wins Vindication

(Apr 28 1938) (CSM)

Jun 7 1938 (CSM)

Study for Filming ofBible Started by British Studio

Plato, Burke, and the Lunts Reviews of Jean Giraudoux's "Amphitryon 38" and "The Engadine Express"

(Apr 29 1938) (CSM)

Britain Bases Its Defense On Cooperation

(Jun 8 1938) (CSM)

May 3 1938 (CSM)

Search for Knowledge

Glamour on Stage and Screen

Jun 9 1938 (CSM)

(May 3 l935)(CSM)

Editorial: Names ofHonor

Empire Spotlights American Who Foresaw Commonwealth

(Jun lO 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Lights Not Put Out

(May 4 1938) (CSM)

(June l3 1938) (CSM)

From Cornwall to Cambridge

Ballet Progresses in Britain

(May 5 l938)(CSM)

(Jun 15 l938)(CSM)

The Wide Horizon: Those British Elections

Pall Mall to Shaftesbury Ave 90

(Jun 16 1938)(CSM) Editorial: Liberty and the Bible

Wife" by Peter Blackmore and "Spring Meeting" by Miss M. J. Farrell and John Perry

(Jun 20 1938) (CSM) Famed British Personages Began Rise in Manchester

(Jul 20 1938) (CSM) Mysteries of Wiltshire (Jul20 1938) (CSM) Silver Spoon Recklessness

Jun 211938 (CSM) The Summer Theater in England The tenth Malvern Festival

(Jul21 1938) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Chamberlain in Perspective

(Jun 21 1938)(CSM) Editorial: The Moving Finger Writes

(Jul22 1938) (CSM) It Was a Famous Journey

(Jun 24 1938) (CSM) Democratic Party In Britain Backs Stronger Empire

(Jul23 1938) (CSM) "Master ofArts" And the Job (Jul25 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Movies and the State

(Jun 25 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Philistine

(Jul26 1938) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: "Decline ofthe SpellBinders"

Jun 28 1938 (CSM) Revolution and the Theater A review of Norman Macowan's "Glorious Morning"

(Jul27 1938)(CSM) Anthology of Oxford

(Jun 28 1938) (CSM) Eton Dons Toppers and Tails to Celebrate Its Own "Fourth"

(Jul30 1938) (CSM) History Study as Discipline (Aug 1 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Hands and Feet

Jul5 1938 (CSM) Memories ofthe Nineties A review oflvor Novello's "Comedienne"

Aug 2 1938 (CSM) Fine Writing in the Theater

(Jul5 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Author Blow for Fathers

(Aug 5 1938) (CSM) Editorial: John Bunyan 's Progress

Jul 6 1938 (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Where Is the Censor Looking?

(Aug 6 1938) (CSM) In Awe of the Black Coo/ins Aug 9 1938 (CSM) Climax, Please "The current season has been ... so generally devoid of value that one begins to wonder whether, temporarily at any rate, virtue has not gone out of the drama" - "What impresses anyone who goes frequently to the play is the lack of memorability in recent English drama. The vast majority of the pieces that have recently been put on are Laodicean. They are neither good nor bad. They give nothing that the memory can recall. They are utterly null. Lacking even positive defects, they are worse than if they were monumentally bad. In these circumstances, it would do English dramatists a world of good if they observed the world of ballet more closely than their work suggests they do", since ballet holds examples of clearly defined climaxes

(Jul 7 1938) (CSM) Editorial: The Order ofMerit (Jul9 1938)(CSM) Thomas Hardy's Sister Buys Author's Home in Dorchester (Jul9 1938) (CSM) Portrait ofan Author (Julll 1938)(CSM) Editorial: The Word ofa King Jul12 1938 (CSM) Views of a Dramatist Somerset Maugham Jul16 1938 (CSM) Editorial: Bouquet for the Big, Bad Wolf Jul19 1938 (CSM) New Plays in London "Happy Returns", produced by C. B. Cochran, "The Sun Never Sets" by Edgar Wallace, "Lot's

Aug 11 1938 (CSM) National Theater 91

(Aug 12 1938) (CSM) "Sir Charles Dickens"- Almost?

Sept 27 1938 (CSM) Charles Morgan as Playwright A drama critic turned playwright

(Aug 12 1938)(CSM) Rubber Paving for Oxford

(Sept 30 1938) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Political Garden Party

Aug 16 1938 (CSM) New Direction at Malvern "Geneva" by G. B. Shaw

(Oct 1 1938) (CSM) Editorial: What About the Ocean?

Aug 23 1938 (CSM) Experiment at Malvern Reviews of J. B. Priestley's "Music at Night" and C. K. Munro's "Coronation Time at Mrs Beam's"

(Oct 3 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Lockhart Takes a Fall

Aug 24 1938 (CSM) Book Review: A Lover of the Stage

(Oct 10 1938) (CSM) Editorial: A Burning ofBooks

Aug 24 1938 (CSM) John fan Druten "The Way to the Present"

(Oct 12 1938) (CSM) Honor to the Tinkers Son

Oct 4 1938 (CSM) The Old, Familiar Sky

Oct 18 1938 (CSM) Wanted, a Pinshaw A review of Pinero's "Tre1awny of the 'Wells"'

(Aug 25 1938) (CSM) Georgian Houses Preserved Near Site of Kings Statue (Aug 30 1938) (CSM) Realism and Romance

(Oct 20 1938) (CSM) Repton Cheers School Team in Film "Rugger" Match

(Aug 31 1938)(CSM) Britain Preserves Her Beauty

(Oct 22 1938) (CSM) Clean Heels for Scots' Names

Sept 6 1938 (CSM) The Country Theater

(Oct 24 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Quotations for Appeasement (Oct 27 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Seeing It Whole

(Sept 6 1938) (CSM) Meeting With the Extra Player

(Oct 28 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Footlighting War

(Sept 13 1938) (CSM) Kaiser Misinterpreted King

(Oct 31 1938)(CSM) Colonies: German Demands and British Views

(Sept 13 1938) (CSM) Scene in London

(Nov 1 1938) (CSM) Pictures of the Past

(Sept 17 1938) (CSM) Brunei s Signature

(Nov 2 1938) (CSM) British Monarch Commends Queen Of Tonga Islands

(Sept 17 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Historians at Zurich

(Nov 4 1938) (CSM) Papermaking and Printing Shown at London Book Fair

(Sept 19 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Two New Film Stars? Sept 20 1938 (CSM) "Last Train South " A review of this play by R. C. Hutchinson

Nov 8 1938 (CSM) The Charm of Remembrance A review ofDodie Smith's "Dear Octopus", and "Goodbye Mr Chips"

Sept21 1938 (CSM) Editorial: Adventure

(Nov 9 1938) (CSM) Considering the Decline ofHistory

(Sept 22 1938) (CSM) In Search of a Setting

(Nov 10 1938) (CSM) King George Approves Badge Made for House of Windsor

(Sept 22 1938) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Pacifism 92

(Nov 12 1938) (CSM) Editorial: The "Lambeth Walk"

Jan 7 1939 (CSM) London's Best Plays of 1938

Nov 15 1938 (CSM) Brighter, Lighter Stage Reviews of Leslie Henson's "Running Riot", Bobby Howes in "Bobby Get Your Gun", "Official Secret" and "Idiot's Delight"

(Jan I4 I939) (CSM) Stage, Screen and the Novel Film reviews

(Nov 17 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Quiz-otic

(Jan 17 1939) (CSM) Britain Moves to Open Areas to Public Closed for Years (Jan 18 1939) (CSM) Film Interchange Inside Empire Planned

(Nov 19 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Spenser- "Poet's Poet" (Nov 19 1938) (CSM) British Films Get New Chief

Jan 21 1939 (CSM) Irving and Albery A review of"Two Roses"

(Nov 22 1938) (CSM) The Mall

(Jan 24 I939) (CSM) Oxford's Oldest Hall Bids For Support (Jan 27 I939) (CSM) Editorial: The Ideal Concert

Nov 26 1938 (CSM) Saint-Denis Pulls It Off His plans for a theatre ensemble in London

(Jan 28 I939) (CSM) After "Thirty-Nine Steps"

Dec 3 1938 (CSM) Repertory Gets a Theater Beaumont Street, Oxford

Jan 28 1939 (CSM) Happy Returns

(Dec 6 1938) (CSM) Editorial: Mackintoshes

(Jan 30 1939) (CSM) Romantic Light on John Donne

(Dec 8 1938) (CSM) Spare Those Alderley Trees!

(Feb I 1939) (CSM) Written in Praise ofJohn Wesley

DeclO 1938 (CSM) Merriment In Miniature Reviews of N. C. Hunter's "A Party for Christmas" and Patrick Dornhorst's "They Fly by Twilight" (Dec 22 I938) (CSM) Editorial: Da Vinci and the Screen

(Feb I I939)(CSM) Editorial: Atlantis Rules the Waves (Feb 1 1939) (CSM) British Films: Quotas or Boom Hopes for Profit (Feb 3 I939) (CSM) Editorial: Westerns to the Rescue? (Feb 4 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Twisting the Signposts

Dec 24 1938 (CSM) Economics in the Theater

(Feb 4 1939) (CSM) "The Mikado" in Technicolour

(Dec 24 I938) (CSM) As the Movies Grow Longer

(Feb 9 I939) (CSM) Editorial: They Can't Do It?

(Dec 27 1938) (CSM) Art and Recreation Fostered By British Governing Units

(Feb 9 1939) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Debate (Feb II I939) (CSM) Soviet Fade-Out?

Dec 31 1938 (CSM) Shaw and Milne in London Reviews of a revival of Shaw's "Man and Superman" and A. A. Milne's "Gentleman Unknown"

Feb 11 1939 (CSM) Pantomime Dame

(Jan 3 1939) (CSM) Pioneered in Altering Social Facts

(Feb I5 I939) (CSM) Editorial: Safety for Authors

(Jan 4 1939) (CSM) The Isis Scores a Thousand

Feb 18 1939 (CSM) Design for Entertainment 93

(Feb 18 1939) (CSM) Reich to Raise Film Output; Jewish Exodus Affocts Plans

"The Playboy of the Western World" by J. M. Synge, "The Doctor's Dilemma" by G. B. Shaw and "Quiet Wedding" by Esther McCracken

Feb 20 1939 (CSM) Editorial: Let the Censor Beware

Mar 25 1939 (CSM) Repertory in England

(Feb 23 1939) (CSM) Shakespeare No. I in Vienna

Mar 29 1939 (CSM) What Is It? G.B.S. Doesn't Know Yet

(Feb 25 1939) (CSM) Miss Bergner's New Film

(Mar31 1939 (CSM) Spanish Art Treasures Safe; Turned Over to Nationalists

Feb 25 1939 (CSM) Curtain Calls Reviews of Max Catto's "They Walk Alone", Strindberg's "Miss Julie", Patrick Hamilton's "Gaslight", and "The Fleet's Lit Up"

(Apr 1 1939) (CSM) British Monarch Honors Lebrun At Gala Opera Party

(Mar 2 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Vanished Security?

(Apr 3 1939) (CSM) Oxford Spending More Than Ever On Improvements

Mar 4 1939 (CSM) OfDrama and Criticism "Dramatic Criticism" by S. R. Littlewood

(Apr 4 1939) (CSM) Editorial: A Holy Roman Empire? Apr41939 (CSM) London Tries Cut-Price Shows

Mar41939(CSM) Realism Besieged A review of "On the Frontier" by Auden and Isherwood

(Apr4 1939) (CSM) "Mr Chips " Filmed In Britain

(Mar4 1939) (CSM) Nostalgia for Silence

Apr 8 1939 (CSM) "Johnson Over Jordan " By J. B. Priestley, starring Ralph Richardson

(Mar 4 1939) (CSM) Editorial: British Policy in Spain

(Apr 8 1939) (CSM) An Anglo-Saxon French Film

(Mar 8 1939)(CSM) Editorial: Can Canada Be Neutral?

(Apr 11 1939) (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Public Manners

Mar 11 1939 (CSM) Editorial: The Lyceum

(Apr I4 1939) (CSM) Editorial: A Dean From Toronto

(Mar II 1939) (CSM) French Films Ride High

Apr 15 1939 (CSM) The Jamesian Touch A review of"Asmodee"

(Mar 15 1939) (CSM) Europe Claims to Lead in Quality ofFilms Mar 18 1939 (CSM) The Theater Can Change Reviews of"The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Way of the World", Lesley Storm's "Tony Draws a Horse" and Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People"

(Apr 20 1939) (CSM) Kitchener Film To Cover Incident OJ Sunken Warship Apr 21 1939 (CSM) Actor's Farewell to an Epoch Sir John Martin-Harvey

(Mar 21 1939) (CSM) Study ofHistory as a Mere Dash Through Pedestrian Works (Mar 23 1939) (CSM) Lebrun To Retire in May, That Is, Him

Apr 22 1939 (CSM) The Unpleasant Mr Thackeray Reviews of Barre Lyndon's "The Man in Half Moon Street" and lvor Novello's "The Dancing Years"

If Crises Let

(May 2 1939) (CSM) Groves of Olive

Mar 25 1939 (CSM) Three Plays- One New 94

(May 4 1939) (CSM)

May 27 1939 (CSM)

The Wide Horizon: Labor and Conscription

The Quarter Century

J. B. Priestley

May 6 1939 (CSM) 1Wo American Plays

May 28 1939 (ST)

"The Family Reunion" and "Of Mice and Men"

Greek Players to Visit US

(May 6 1939) (CSM)

(May 28 1939) (ST)

Film Art and Artifice

Evacuation of Cripples

(May 8 1939) (CSM)

(Jun 2 1939) (CSM)

Kings US. Visit Publicizes Early Sources of Democracy

The Wide Horizon: A Wall Is Strengthened

Jun 3 1939 (CSM)

May 13 1939 (CSM)

Inquest and Examination A review of "Inquest" and Emlyn Williams's

The Theater and the Crisis

"The Com is Green"

May 13 1939 (CSM)

(Jun 3 1939) (CSM)

Stratford Reaps Reward OfShakespeare s Genius

Film Contrasts

(May 14 1939) (ST)

(Jun 5 1939) (CSM)

Families Who Will Make Their Own Evacuation Plans

Patina Controversy Awakens On Cleaning of Elgin Marbles

May 17 1939 (CSM)

Jun 5 1939 (CSM)

Editorial: Money and Malvern

When Royalty Patterns Shaw

May 171939(CSM)

Jun 10 1939 (CSM)

London Theater Men Rejoice Over Reduced Tax On Tickets

Rutherford Mayne's "Bridge Head"

The Uses of Craftmanship

(May 19 1939) (CSM)

(Jun lO 1939)(CSM)

Impartial View of World Aim of Cambridge Survey

French and English Films

May 20 1939 (CSM)

Tour ofAthens Royal Theater Promotes World Good Will

Jun 14 1939 (CSM)

"The Little Revue"

(May 21 1939) (CSM)

(Jun 15 1939) (CSM)

Under the London Arcs

Britain Opens First Institute Of US. Affairs

Shaw and Barrie films contemplated

(Jun 16 1939)(CSM) Editorial: Mothers and Air Defense

May 24 1939 (CSM) Unusual Interest Is Shown By British Royalty in Drama

Jun 17 1939 (CSM) Eloquent Silences -Acrobatics

May 25 1939 (CSM)

(Jun 17 1939) (CSM)

Wreckers Called to Theater Of Irving and Pantomime Star

Search for Chap/ins

(Jun 24 1939) (CSM)

(May 25 1939) (CSM)

Television Comes to Cinema

Women and Preparedness: Larger Role in British Plan

(Jun 25 1939) (ST) Frances Film Festival

(May 25 1939) (CSM)

Jun 27 1939 (CSM)

Editorial: The Foreign Language Film

Editorial: Real Repertory?

(May 27 1939) (CSM)

(Jun 28 1939) (CSM)

Editorial: In Spite of Themselves

Editorial: They're Greek to Us

May 27 1939 (CSM)

Jun 28 1939 (CSM)

British Actress Compiles Anthology of Spoken Verse

Shakespeare for Adults Only?

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Jun 28 1939 (CSM) Lyceum sPast on Display Before Razing

(Jull6 1939) (ST) 20th Century Cave Man

(Jun 29 1939) (CSM) Editorial: When Competitors Help

(Jul 17 1939) (CSM) Tennyson Own Recitation Of Poems May Be Re-Recorded

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(Jun 29 1939) (CSM) Oxford Group Given Right to the Name

Jull8 1939 (CSM) House ofPantomime and All Drama

Jun 30 1939 (CSM) Theatrical Libraries Reach Sales Peak In "Under Your Hat"

Jul18 1939 (CSM) Stage Family Views Record of 200 Years at Drury Lane

Jun 30 1939 (CSM) Sherriff Becomes Adviser Of British Film Colony

(Jul20 1939) (CSM) Editorial: lana

Jull 1939 (CSM) "Rhondda Roundabout" A review of this play by Jack Jones

July 22 1939 (CSM) London Stage Records Leslie Banks

Jull 1939 (CSM) "After the Dance " A review of this play by Terence Rattigan

(Jul23 1939) (ST) Cornwall to Scotland On Horseback (Jul23 l939)(ST) A Gramophone "Golden Treasury"

(Jul 2 1939) (ST) James Blow, Junior

(Jul25 1939) (CSM) Records of Tennyson s Poems Played at His Aldworth House

(Jul 6 1939) (CSM) Manx Legislature Convenes With 700-Year-Old Ceremony

Jul 29 1939 (CSM) Talent Surplus in Britain?

Jul 7 1939 (CSM) "Hamlet" at Elsinore Castle Puts "Dane" in Authentic Set

(Jul29 1939) (CSM) New Films in London

(Jul8 1939) (CSM) British Film Taxes Reduced

(Jul 30 1939) (ST) Octogenarian Memories +More About "G-Men"

Jul8 1939 (CSM) "After the Dance " By Terence Rattigan

(Aug 2 1939) (CSM) Bodleian s 1,500,000 Books Being Listed in 19YearJob

(Jul8 1939) (CSM) Pride ofKnowledge

Aug 5 1939 (CSM) The Drama in Norwich + World Play Center Opens

(Jul 9 1939) (ST) The Sea Floor

(Aug 6 1939) (ST) Looking After Refugees

(Jul ll 1939) (CSM) World Films to Compete For High Honors at Cannes

(Aug 8 1939) (CSM) Series de Matinees au Festival de Malvern

(Jull2 1939) (CSM) Television in Great Britain Agitates Amusement Folk

(Aug 12 1939) (CSM) Looking Backward

Jul14 1939 (CSM) Hardy Players Drop Curtain On Era of Countryside Drama

Aug 12 1939 (CSM) "Alien Corn" in London A review ofthis play by Sidney Howard

(Jull5 1939) (CSM) "Jamaica Inn "

(Aug 13 1939) (ST) Solo Across the Atlantic

(Jull5 1939) (CSM) Britain Films Its Own Portrait

(Aug 16 l939)(CSM) Museum Gets Nelson Relics 96

Aug 24 1939 (CSM) The Wide Horizon: Britain s National Theater

(Oct 18 1939) (CSM) Editorial: History and Curiosity

Aug 26 1939 (CSM) "The Gentle People" in London A review of this play by Irwin Shaw

(Oct 18 1939) (CSM) Town To Country Shift Taken In Good Part by British Public

Sept 2 1939 (CSM) High Festival at Malvern Review of James Bridie's "What Say They?"

Oct 28 1939 (CSM) National Theaters and the War The National Theatre authorities have instructed the architect, Sir Edward Lutyens, to proceed building on the chosen South Kensington site, as soon as the war is over

(Sept 3 1939) (ST) Book Review: Impressions Of The West Indies Sept 9 1939 (CSM) Shavian Triumph Review of Shaw's "In Good King Charles's Golden Days"

(Oct 29 1939) {ST) Book Review: Tranquil Minds Nov 4 1939 (CSM) Great Actors and Bad Plays The theatre in London may become more frivolous and less fashionable (when the theatres reopen)

Sept 10 1939 (ST) Book Review: Dramatists Story James Bridie's "Way of Living" (Sept 10 1939) (ST) Book Review: Thoughts in a Garden

(Nov 6 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Aesthetic Cricket

Sept 16 1939 (CSM) Economics ofMalvern

(Nov 7 1939) (CSM) English Fields and Hedgerows Are New Places ofLearning

Sept 16 1939 (CSM) What One Author Thinks of Critics Book Review of "A Journal Under the Terror" by E. V. Lucas

(Nov 9 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Art Again

Sept 17 1939 {ST) British Plays for Canada

Nov 11 1939 (CSM) Curtain Up Again The Little Theatre (with a three times daily revue) and the Westminster (with the first night time performance- of J. B. Priestley's "Music at Night") are the first theatres to reopen since the start of the war

Sept 23 1939 (CSM) Buxton Drama Festival Sept 27 1939 (CSM) Editorial: Lillo and the Common Man Lillo was the precursor of Ibsen and Ga1sworthy Sept 30 1939 (CSM) Time and the Drama The theatres have now closed

(Nov 12 1939) {ST) Johnson in the Abbey (Nov 12 1939) {ST) Book Review: Candid Close Ups

(Oct 1 1939) (ST) Sandhurst To Close

(Nov 12 1939)(ST) Book Review: Essays of Charm

(Oct 7 1939) (CSM) Scholars and Poetry

(Nov 12 1939) (ST) Book Review: Detective On The Ice

(Oct 8 1939)(ST) Billeting Is To Stay (Oct 8 1939) (ST) Book Review: Happy Warrior

(Nov 1939) (WG) Brookscroft Dramatic Society

Oct 14 1939 (CSM) On Not Seeing "Stagecoach" Hobson is denied entry to a cinema in Guildford because he has forgotten his gas mask

(Nov 16 1939) (CSM) Movie Record of War Is Assured by British On the arrangements made to film the war (Nov 17 1939) (CSM) Latest Movies for the Front While Londoners Mark Time

(Oct 15 1939) {ST) Book Review: The Farmers Year 97

Nov 18 1939 (CSM) Gate Revue - Second Edition "It was shown in the last war that there is a great theatrical public for musical comedies and revues in times of national peril"

Shakespeare for Italy A list of statues in London that the government has decided to protect from possible bomb damage

(Dec 5 1939) (CSM) Return to Stevenson

(Nov 18 1939) (CSM) Pause in the Cinema The war has had a deleterious effect on the business of cinemas

Dec 7 1939 (CSM) Editorial: Young Shakespeare On the statue of the young bard presented to Italy to improve relations

Nov 18 1939 (CSM) "Wash on the Siegfried Line" Found Tipperary s Successor The work of ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) in entertaining the troops has gone some way to solving the problem of unemployment in the theatrical profession (only 800 out of 8,000 Equity actors are working)

(Dec 8 1939) (CSM) Editorial: A Corner in Westminster (Dec 10 1939) (ST) A Nelson Relic (Dec I 0 1939) (ST) War Library Office

(Nov 21 1939) (CSM) A Source of British Power Patriotic propaganda about the integrity and moral rectitude of the British

Dec 16 1939 (CSM) The Theater Carries On 16 theatres are now open in the West End, with light entertainment the most popular form of play

(Nov 21 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Window on Russia

(Dec 17 1939) (ST) Soldiers 'Journals

(Nov 22 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Books Amid Bombs

(Dec 21 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Magna Carta in Washington

Nov 25 1939 (CSM) Farewell to the Gaiety On the demise of the Gaiety theatre because of street widening!

(Dec 22 1939) (CSM) Editorial: And Laughter Waits

(Nov 26 1939) (ST) Book Review: Grey Owls Story

(Dec 23 1939) (CSM) "Professor Mamlock"

(Nov 26 1939) (ST) Precious Documents

(Dec 23 l939)(CSM) British Films Encouraged As Quota Act Is Continued

(Nov 29 1939) (CSM) Editorial: Sharing Magna Carta

(Dec 24 1939) (ST) Book Review: For Remembrance

(Dec 2 1939) (CSM) Documentaries Continue On "The City" (London): "The most immediately striking thing about this picture is its commentary. Often enough the commentaries to British documentary films and news reels are the source of annoyance. They attempt facetiousness in the most unlikely places, and are boomed out in a genteel pronunciation thilt suggests a foghorn educated at Oxford. The monologue that accompanies "The City", however, is straightforward, simple, friendly, and informative, and is quietly delivered in a diction that recalls neither Oxford nor, indeed, any other seat of learning under the sun"

(Dec 29 1939 (ST) Letter to the "Sunday Times": "Lord Haw-Haw" Dec 30 1939 (CSM) Laughter Rules in British Theaters The recovery of the theatre and the cinema after the initial shock of the outbreak of hostilities Dec 30 1939 (CSM) A Timely Revival A review of the revival of Elmer Rice's "Judgement Day" , a work that deals with the "Reichstag Trial", in which Hobson, somewhat boldly given the time, claims that, whilst a good play, it misses being a tragedy by not sufficiently examining the motivation and human dimension of the Nazi accusers

(Dec 4 1939)(CSM) Statues Concern the British, Young 98

Jan 6 1940 (CSM)

(Feb 3 1940) (CSM)

Book Review: "The Amazing Critic" by James Agate

Book Review: A Cinematic Fairy Tale

A sycophantic review of his superior's latest volume of collected criticisms (June 1937-July 1939): "There is no English twentieth-century writer more certain of literary immortality than James Agate" (Jan 7 1940)(ST)

Feb 3 1940 (CSM)

Bookshops of Theater and Drama The only theatrical bookshop in London (Feb 10 1940) (CSM) Editorial: Latin - Greek to Some Feb lO 1940 (CSM)

Twinkle, Twinkle

"The Golden Cuckoo"

(Jan lll940)(CSM)

Editorial: A Government ofLetters Jan 13 1940 (CSM) A Principal Joy An interesting reflection on the consequences of the blackout for theatres before a review of a political pantomime, "Who's Taking Liberties?"

Review of this new play by Denis Johnston: "Mr Johnston is the author of "The Moon in Yellow River", the only modern play which in nine years of professional theatergoing has seemed to me a work of genius", but "the night when I saw the play the audience assembled was the smallest I have ever seen in any theater" (Feb 10 1940) (CSM)

(Jan 14 1940) (ST)

The Splendour ofFrance

Sword ofTipoo

(Feb 11 1940) (ST)

(Jan 18 1940)(CSM)

Book Review: Inventor of the Clipper Planes

The War and Education

(Feb 11 1940)(ST) Book Review: Wanderer in the Bahamas

Jan 20 1940 (CSM)

Prejudice Defeated

(Feb 15 1940) (CSM)

A review of Yeats's "The Unicorn from the Stars" in which Hobson confesses that he likes everything Irish apart from the accent

Editorial: Lords for the Commons?

(Jan 21 1940)(ST)

It Happened Otherwise

Book Review: Charles' Gift

(Feb 15 l940)(CSM) Feb 17 1940 (CSM)

(Jan 21 1940)(ST)

Exceptions to the Rule

The Asquith Statue

A review of "You, Of All People" by Peter Rosser, and a consideration of how the theatre has survived the first few months of the war against the experience of 1914

Jan 27 1940 (CSM)

Plots in Bloomsbury A review of Max Catto's "Punch Without Judy"; "Giving the Bride Away" and "Eve on Parade"

(Feb 18 1940)(ST)

(Jan 28 1940) (ST)

Book Review: Sidelights On The 18th Century

Book Review: A Naturalist in Ecuador

(Feb 18 1940) (ST)

(Jan 28 1940) (ST)

Pictorial Domesday Book

Book Review: Du Temps Perdu

(Feb 23 1940) (CSM)

(Jan 28 1940) (ST)

Editorial: G.B.S. to the Artists

Book Review: Sailing Down To Rio And Beyond

Feb 24 1940 (CSM)

Jan 30 1940 (CSM)

Good - in Parts

Editorial: Benson

Two revues, "All Clear" and "Funny Side Up"

A consideration of Sir Frank Benson's achievements

Feb 24 1940 (CSM)

In Spite ofMacaulay Flicking through an anthology of Shakespeare, Hobson is reminded of how "the things that in the theater make the greatest effect are not, generally speaking, those that look the most impressive upon the printed page"

Feb 3 1940 (CSM)

This Is a Thriller A review of "Ladies in Retirement" by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham, the first war time play to be chosen to transfer to New York 99

(Feb 25 1940) (ST) Book Review: From Chaucer to Yeats

Mar 30 1940 (CSM) The Words Are English A film set against the impressive Maginot Line(!) and dubbed into English

(Mar 1 1940)(CSM) Editorial: Devon Proves It

(Apr 5 1940) (CSM) Britain s Wartime Radio

(Mar 2 1940) (CSM) What the British Films Need

(Apr 6 1940) (CSM) Paradox ofEducation

Mar 2 1940 (CSM) A Valet and a Plumber A review of Alec Coppel's "Believe It or Not", ("above the average level of a stage whose standards have been regrettably lowered by war"), and "Follow My Leader" by Terence Rattigan (censored pre-war because it featured two political characters, Hitler and Goring)

(Apr 7 1940) (ST) Book Review: Mr Maugham on Reading (Apr 7 1940) (ST) Book Review: Dicta Allwoodii

(Mar 3 1940) (ST) Book Review: The Price ofEmpire

Apr l3 1940 (CSM) The Light ofHeart A review of this new play by Emlyn Williams, "the first really big popular success of the war"

(Mar 4 1940) (CSM) Editorial: The Pen and the Plume

(Apr 14 1940) (ST) London Library

Mar 9 1940 (CSM) The Classics Return A preview of forthcoming theatrical events (Wycherley, Congreve and Farquhar) that testify to the recovery of the theatre, and a review of Machiavelli's "Mandragola"

(Apr 30 1940) (CSM) London by the Sea

(May 5 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: Wither Europe?, The Bewildering War and We Are Not Amused

(Mar 9 1940) (CSM) Editorial: "Epoch Making Books" (Mar 10 1940)(ST) Beauties ofBritain

(May 8 1940) (CSM) Who Wrote It?

(Mar 16 1940) (CSM) Book Review: A Friend of Oxford

May ll 1940 (CSM) Wendy Hiller Strides to Fame An interview with the actress

(Mar 17 1940) (ST) Book Review: In Search of Reptiles

May lll940(CSM) The Theater Meets Competition The war has succeeded where the critics have failed, by eradicating the trivial, comedy of bad manners from the stage; review of "A House in the Square" by Diana Morgan

(Mar 18 1940) (CSM) Editorial: Britain s Public Libraries (Mar 19 1940) (CSM) Editorial: Why Waste Words? (Mar 22 1940)(CSM) Editorial: Fact or Fiction? (Mar 23 1940)(CSM) Scots Take No Chances Now; Shakespeares Get a Break Mar 23 1940 (CSM) Battle-Axe, Farewell On the gentle nature of most recent dramatic criticism; Clifford Bax's "The Venetian" and the first new Cochran revue for years- "Lights Up" (Mar 28 1940) (CSM) Kipling Home Presented to Nation

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May 4 1940 (CSM) Back to 1931 Review of the revived "White Horse Inn"

(May 12 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: Coco the Clown and English Ways (May 15 1940) CSM) Editorial: Halleluja for a Chorus May 18 1940 (CSM) In Lieu of a National Theater A review of "The Country Wife" by Wycherley, a work not performed between 1748 and 1926 May 18 1940 (CSM) Stephen Murray As Lincoln Review of John Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln" I

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(May 19 1940) (ST) Book Review: Rose ofRauen

Reviews of"She Loves Me Not" by Eric Forbes Boyd and Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca"

(May 21 1940) (CSM) Acquisition of a Public Humorous consideration by Hobson ofhis public

Jun 25 1940 (CSM) Scraps of Paper The effects of the shortage of newsprint on the content of British papers

(May 23 1940) (CSM) England s Peaceful Countryside

Jun 28 1940 (CSM) Editorial: Long Runs Hobson makes his first broadcast for the BBC on June 29, entitled "Talking to Stars", in which he recalls interviewing famous people of the stage and screen

May 25 1940 (CSM) New Revues in London "New Faces" and "Up and Doing" with Leslie Henson (May 26 1940) (ST) Book Review: Mrs Fitzherbert

Jun 29 1940) (CSM) The Theater Watches The Blitz is about to begin and the theatres are making plans to take their shows into the provinces: Hobson goes to see the only London show he has not attended- "Me and My Girl"

(May 26 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: The Story and the Fable and America Expects (May 27 1940) (CSM) Editorial: In Defense ofM.A.s

Jun 29 1940 (CSM) London Carries On The practice of theatregoing in the face of the impending Blitz

(Jun 2 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: Population Problems, Frank Brangwyn and Come Another Day

(Jun 30 1940) (ST) A "Devastated" Coast Town

(Jun 3 1940) (CSM) Centenary of Thomas Hardy Is Celebrated at Dorchester

Jul3 1940 (CSM) Editorial: First Nights, Farewell Social advantages for the theatre on account of wartime adversity

(Jun 7 1940) (CSM) Editorial: Thomas Hardy, Poet Jun 8 1940 (CSM) Half a Century ofPlays Why Shaw's latest play, "In Good King Charles's Golden Days", shows that Shaw has "misconceived the true nature of the theater" (Jun 9 1940)(ST) Book Reviews: 1936 and All That and The Norwegian Struggle

(Jul6 1940) (CSM) "La Marseillaise " (Jul7 1940) (CSM) Editorial; A Woman for These Times (Jul7 1940) (ST) Book Review: Himalayan Scenes

Jun 15 1940 (CSM) Three Plays in London Reviews of the war play "By Pigeon Post", the musical comedy "Present Arms", and "Jeannie" by Aimee Stewart (Jun 15 1940)(CSM) British Movie Houses Refuse To Pay High Charge for "Gone"

(Jul5 1940) (CSM) Editorial: Roads ofAdventure

(Jul 12 1940) (S) Book Review: The Art of Living Jull3 1940 (CSM) Romance and Mr Shaw The effect of Shaw on films (Jul 14 1940) (ST) Adventures in Literature

(Jun 22 1940) (CSM) Their Drama s Elsewhere

Jul20 1940 (CSM) The Touch of the Dramatist A review of "Titian Red" by A. G. Macdonell: "the only theater which in these times interests even actors is the theater of war"

Jun 22 1940 (CSM) Comedy in London

(Jul24 1940) (CSM) Before Invasion

(Jun 16 1940)(ST) Book Review: The Shadow ofNapoleon

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(Aug 31 1940) (CSM)

Book Review: Himalayan Honeymoon

Fiction in Documentary

Jul27 1940 (CSM)

Reviews of the films "Convoy" and "Men of the Lightship"

A New Theater in London Review of "Thunder Rock" by Robert Ardrey

(Sept 1 1940) (ST)

(Jul28 1940)(ST)

Book Reviews: Love and the Poets and Treasure Hunts

Book Review: Dr Livingstone and Road to Bath

(Sept 4 1940) (CSM)

Jul29 1940 (CSM)

Editorial: Gibbon and the Third Reich

Editorial: "The Marseillaise"

Sept 7 1940 (CSM)

(Aug 2 1940) (S)

Theater Boom In London

Book Review: And So To Bath Aug 3 1940 (CSM)

Actors Help in War Effort As France falls and Britain prepares for invasion there is only one play left in London out of the 60+ theatres - Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" - and a dozen revues and musical comedies

The public returns to the theatres; reviews of Geoffrey Kerr's "Cottage To Let" and Evelyn Glover's "Time to Wake Up" and the dire revue, "Chu Chin Chow" Sept 11 1940 (CSM)

That Man Gibson Hobson's first play seen in Sheffield - "The Private Secretary"

(Aug 4 1940) (ST)

Book Review: Ronsard, Prince ofPoets

Sept 14 1940 (CSM)

Aug 7 1940 (CSM)

War Shows in London

Editorial: "The Show Must Go On "

A review of "Garrison Theatre", an interesting revue that the censor has slightly modified, and of Clare Boothe's "Margin For Error"

(Aug 9 1940) (CSM)

Paper From Reeds May Prove A New Industry for Britain

Sept 21 1940 (CSM)

Aug 10 1940 (CSM)

From the Back of the Pit

The American Complement

Hobson's experience of viewing a play (Vernon Sylvaine's farce, "Women Aren't Angels") from the pit

The 40 or so American actors who have remained in Britain, such as Churchill's son-inlaw, Vic Oliver

(Sept 21 1940)(CSM)

(Aug 11 1940) (ST)

Getting the Details Wrong

Book Reviews: Books to Note, Bulgarian Travels and A Shorter Bible

(Sept 22 1940)(ST)

Book Reviews: In Defonce OfJohn Fox and Stage Prologues

Aug 13 1940 (CSM)

A Nightingale Sang

(Sept 25 1940) (RT)

Nightingales in literature

Eight Moments In A Thousand Plays

(Aug 17 1940) (CSM) ':4 Window in London "

Radio Broadcast (Sept 29 1940) (ST)

(Aug 18 1940) (ST)

Book Review: Essays By T. E. Lawrence

Book Review: Cambridge Old and New

(Sept 30 1940) (CSM)

Aug 24 1940 (CSM)

Surprise on the Wateifront

Shaw Shares a Triumph A triumphant production of Shaw's "The Devil 's Disciple", with Robert Donat (Aug 25 1940) (ST)

(Oct 6 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: Sense and Sensibility and Sir Guy Gaunt's Adventures

L.D. V.s Hold Up The King

(Oct 9 1940) (CSM)

Aug 31 1940 (CSM)

Film Institute Combs World For Early Chaplin Picture

The Theater Goes to Tommy Atkins On the concerted efforts to entertain the Homefront, through the work of ENSA

(Oct 10 1940) (CSM)

Editorial: For Future Macaulays

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(Oct 11 1940)(CSM) Editorial: Courage Levels Caste Oct 12 1940 (CSM) Raids and Dictator Plays Review of Winifred Holtby's "Take Back Your Liberty"

West End theatres are closed, except the Vaudeville's matinee of "All's Well That Ends Well" and a lunchtime performance by Donald Wolfit at the Strand (Nov 17 1940) (ST) Book Review: The Benson Family

(Oct 12 1940) (CSM) Book Reviews: Among the New Books

(Nov 23 1940) (CSM) War Thrills Out In Film

(Oct 14 1940) (CSM) Late Introduction to Gibbon Hobson's discovery of Gibbon

Nov 23 1940 (CSM) British Drama Stays On Road No new London productions since September because most plays are on the road - Noel Coward's "At Half Past Eight" is at Blackpool and "Happy Birthday" is at Birmingham. The Holbom Empire has been destroyed

(Oct 14 1940 (CSM) Editorial: Meter and Mettle Oct 19 1940 (CSM) "Small-Size Leigh Hunt" A review of James Agate's "Ego 4"

(Nov 28 1940) (RT) Talking It Over Radio broadcast

(Oct 20 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: Thoughts on Immortality and John Buchan Essays

Nov 30 1940 (CSM) Air Raids and the Theater Theatres in the provinces are crowded (eg. Ivor Novello's "The Dancing Years" currently on tour and playing in Sheffield), but many theatres have been seriously affected by the air raids

(Oct 24 1940) (CSM) Shoulder, Pens! The cartoons of Louis Raemaekers (Oct 26 1940) (CSM) Book Review: East and West- London Letter Signed with the pseudonym Dudley Meads Mackegg

(Dec 1 1940) (ST) Book Review: Culbertson s Confessions and Adventure On Many Fronts (Dec 7 1940) (CSM) Book Review: Among the New Books

(Oct 29 1940) (RT) What I am Reading Now Radio braodcast

(Dec 8 1940) (ST) Book Review: Panorama ofBritain

(Oct 30 1940) (CSM) Editorial: London s Greatness

(Dec 14 1940) (CSM) Oxford Holds Fast Despite Wars Straits

Nov 2 1940 (CSM) London Theaters Dark For a while theatres carried on after the commencement of the raids but now only the Windmill is open, presenting non-stop revue. "Apple Sauce" at the Holbom Empire actually rang up its curtain as an air raid was in progress Nov 9 1940 (CSM) Can the Provinces Take Over? "The story of the British theater is no longer to be found in London". "Rebecca", "The Devil's Disciple", "Thunder Rock" and "The Millionairess" are all on tour and Hobson wonders how they will adapt to these new conditions (Nov 13 1940) (CSM) View in Triplicate Nov 16 1940 (CSM) Bridging a Gap Between Wars

Dec 14 1940 (CSM) The Drama Glances at Conrad Review of Thomas Browne's adaptation of Conrad's "Tomorrow" (Dec 14 1940) (CSM) Book Reviews: Among the New Books (Dec 15 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: London and A Doctors Day (Dec 21 1940) (CSM) Ho/lywoods British Films Dec 21 1940 (CSM) The Provinces Experiment London theatre managers experiment with first runs in the provinces (Dec 21 1940) (CSM) Book Review: "Final Edition" and Is E. F. Benson s Glance Back? -A London Letter

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(Dec 22 1940) (ST) Book Reviews: A Batch For Girls, Children Look At The World and Stories For Boys

(Jan25194l)(CSM) Book Review: Three Acts and an Epilogue of British History- A London Letter

(Dec 28 1940) (CSM) Book Review: A New Novel by Charles Morgan; M?rse From Mr Sassoon -A London Letter

(Jan 26 1941)(ST) Book Review: Famous Sermons

Dec 28 1940 (CSM) America in London A further article that concentrates on the courage of American actors (here, Dorothy Dickson) in staying on in London during the Blitz (Dec 29 1940) (ST) Book Review: Easy Going Jan 4 1941 (CSM) The Theater Fights Back The stoicism of the acting profession (Jan 4 194l)(CSM) Book Review: Mr Wells and the Novel- A London Letter (Jan 7 1941)(CSM) Editorial: Side by Side (Jan 8 1941)(RT) At Home Today Radio broadcast Jan II 1941 (CSM) Facing the Winter A survey of the disrupted theatrical scene (Jan 111941)(TAT) Book Review: Out of the Jaws ofHell (Jan II 1941) (CSM) Book Review: A Pastoral Record From Britain s Victorian Age -A London Letter (Jan 12 1941) (ST) Book Review: Spirit Of The East (Jan 13 1941)(CSM) We Don't Go Home Till Morning In the air raid shelter with his daughter, Margaret (Jan 16 1941) (RT) The Fortnights Films Radio broadcast (Jan 18 1941) (CSM) Book Review: British Daybooks of "Armistice" and Wartime -A London Letter (Jan 19 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Between The Wars and Lord George Scott (Jan 22 1941)(CSM) The Splendor of Cambridge

Feb 1 1941 (CSM) The Nightingale s Year A review oftheatrica1 activity in 1940 (Feb 1 1941) (CSM) Editorial: Max Gate (Feb 2 1941)(ST) Book Review: Chronicle OfA Family Feb 8 1941 (CSM) Before the Nightingales Sang Hobson wonders where all the authors are and reviews John L. Balderston and Sir J. C. Squire's "Berkeley Square" (Feb 14 1941) (CSM) Home Forum (Feb 15 1941) (CSM) "Great Dictator" in London A review of the Chaplin film (Feb 15 1941) (CSM) Book Review: Cambridge History ofthe British Empire (Feb 15 1941) (CSM) Book Review: Britain, Past and PresentA London Letter (Feb 16 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Old England and Testament of An Airman Feb 171941 (CSM) Editorial: Theater Goes Visiting Entertaining the troops (Feb 21 1941) (CSM) The Films Continue (Feb 23 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Britain and Freedom and Mexican Life (Feb 24 1941 )(CSM) Editorial: The Brightest Stars (Mar 1 1941) (CSM) Book Review: A Monumental Landmark in the History ofEuropean Culture Mar 1 1941 (CSM) Pantomime Carries On In London "For all its obvious weaknesses, its vulgarity, and its total failure to demonstrate or even offer 104

(Apr 12 1941) (CSM) Editorial: Books as a Bond

the remotest hint that man is a rational being, pantomime has a charm from which even the greatest are not exempt"

Apr 12 1941 (CSM) Book Review: Long-Term Criticism A review of Desmond MacCarthy's book "Drama", which covers the years from 1914 to 1935

(Mar 2 1941) (ST) Book Review: Niemoller's Sermons (Mar 6 l94l)(CSM) Editorial: Mrs Beeton

(Apr 13 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and Tristan DaCunha

Mar 8 1941 (CSM) Another Farjeon Conquest Herbert Farjeon's revue "Diversion"

(Apr 15 1941) (LC) America Makes England a Home for Europe's Refugees

(Mar 8 l94l)(CSM) Book Review: Two Tributes to Winston Spencer Churchill - A London Letter

(Apr 15 1941) (CSM) Editorial: Stately Holmes of England

(Mar 9 1941) (ST) Book Review: Christian Crusade

(Apr 19 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: Lord Cecil and the Rise and Fall of the League -A London Letter

(Mar 15 1941) (CSM) Book Review: Book Bonfire- London Letter Hobson has nothing to review because new books are temporarily impossible to obtain because of the damage caused to the publishing industry during the Blitz

(Apr 19 1941) (CSM) Editorial: Customers Not Wanted Apr 19 1941 (CSM) "No Time for Comedy" in London Review of this play by S. N. Behrman (and a consideration of its implications)

Mar 15 1941 (CSM) Not in Our Stars ... Review of Barrie's "Dear Brutus"

(Apr 20 1941) (ST) Book Review: The Preparation ofPeace

(Mar 22 1941) (CSM) Book Review: The Voice ofLiberty in Great Britain - A London Letter

(Apr 21 1941) (CSM) Editorial: Poetic Argument

(Mar 22 1941) (CSM) The Thief ofBaghdad

(Apr 26 1941) (TAT) Book Reviews: New Novels

(Mar 29 1940) (CSM) Comedy Team

(Apr 26 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: Well-Written Books fersus Great Books -A London Letter

(Mar 30 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief

Apr 26 1941 (CSM) A Promising Talent The annual performance of RADA

(Apr 5 1941) (CSM) Book Review: Re-examining Kipling in the Light ofRecent Events -A London Letter Apr 5 1941 (CSM) An Evening Premiere Again 11 playhouses are open but no productions of new works are being mounted (Apr 6 1941)(ST) Book Reviews: Eternity and Time and In Brief (Apr 10 1941) (LC) "London Calling" Review ofNew Books (Apr 12 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: "England's Hour"- The Authorized Version - A London Letter

(Apr 27 1941)(ST) Book Review: Outside Information (May 1 1941 )(LC) "London Calling" Book Review (May 3 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: From the Orkneys to the Far East, and Back- A London Letter May 3 1941 (CSM) Return to London The revue "New Faces" (May 4 1941) (ST) Book Review: Windjammer to Westminster

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(May 10 1941) (CSM) Editorial; "But Westward, Look ... "

George Black has taken over C. B. Cochran's position as the master of the revue

(May 10 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: The Odes of Horace and the Battle ofBritain -A London Letter

(Jun 22 l94l)(ST) Book Review: We Have Seen Evil (Jun 26 1941) (LC) "London Calling" Review ofNew Books

(May 10 1941) (CSM) British Films ' Recovery

(Jun 28 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: Great Britain and the Commonwealth in Pictures and Comment

(May 17 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: Mr Reed Takes Heart- A London Letter

(Jun 29 l94l)(ST) Book Review: Richard Halliburton

(May 18 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and Women In War (May 18 194l)(ST) Polish Exhibition for America

(Jul5 194l)(CSM) Book Reviews: Chamberlain and Churchill in Divergent Views -A London Letter

(May 24 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: The Historical Mystery of the English People- A London Letter

(Jul5 1941) (CSM) First War Films Revived (JuliO 1941) (LC) Mr Punch is a Hundred Years Old

(May 24 1941) (CSM) Synthetic Thrill Devised

JuliO 1941 (CSM) Britain s Footlights Shine On An update on how the theatrical profession has fared after the declaration of hostilities

(May 24 l941)(TAT) Book Reviews: Handkerchiefs and Napoleon (May 25 1941) (ST) Book Review: Mans Faith

(Jull2 1941) (CSM) Screen Looks Into Economics

(May 27 1941)(CSM) British Films' Recovery

(Jull3 1941) (ST) Book Review: In Brief

(May 29 1941) (LC) "London Calling" Review ofNew Books

(Jul20 1941) (TAT) Book Reviews: Tout Comprendre

(May 31 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: Poet Laureate Pays His Tribute to Dunkirk- A London Letter

(Jul20 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and Hell on Trial

(Jun l 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Kings Messenger and Our Arabian Nights

(Jul24 l94l)(CSM) Lord Frederick Beauclerk

(Jun 8 1941) (ST) Book Review: In Brief

(Jul24 1941) (LC) "London Calling" Review ofNew Books

Jun 14 1941 (CSM) "Under One Roof" A review of this new play, by Kim Peacock

(Aug 2 1941) (CSM) The Excellent Pimpernel (Aug 3 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: War for Britain and Dick Seaman

(Jun 15 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Another Part of the Forest and Diplomacy and the God Jun 19 1941 (LC) Hail Stratford, Farewell Malvern On the thriving Stratford festival and the now defunct Malvern one Jun 21 1941 (CSM) Low Comedy Resumes Grip

Aug 9 1941 (CSM) There s Something Wrong Reviews of Emlyn Williams's "The Light of Heart", and the revue "Rise Above It" (Aug 9 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: And Now a Mystery Tale With a New Angle- A London Letter

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(Aug 10 1941) (ST)

(Aug 28 194l)(CSM)

Book Reviews: Prisoner of the Nazis and Testament OfAn Artist

Harold Hobson Makes A Wartime Tour Through England

Aug 12 1941 (CSM)

Editorial: War On a Theater The destruction of Miss Homirnan's Gaiety Theatre (Aug 13 1941) (CSM)

Independence Now Asked For Full India War Aid Aug 16 1941 (CSM)

(Aug 30 1941) (CSM)

Book Reviews: "Seven New British Titles, Mostly About the War -A London Letter" Aug 30 1941 (CSM)

Revue Returns in Fine Array "The New Ambassadors Revue" (Aug311941)(ST)

Book Review: An American In The Blitz

Coward as Master of Stage

(Sept4194I)(CSM)

A review of Noel Coward's new play "Blithe Spirit"

US. Gift Clothes Included In British Ration Rules

(Aug 16 1941) (CSM)

(Sept 5 1941) (TWN) Britain Still Makes Films

Book Reviews: Religion and Diplomacy; The Battle ofBritain -A London Letter (Aug 17 1941) (ST)

Book Reviews: Out Of Their Own Mouths and Father and Son (Aug 20 1941) (CSM)

British Draft Puts Women Into Front Line Positions (Aug 211941) (CSM)

(Sept 6 1941) (CSM)

A Witty Summarizer and a Shrewd Anthologist -A London Letter Sept 6 1941 (CSM)

Surprise Act in London Show A review of Stanley Lupino's "Lady Behave" (Sept 6 194l)(CSM)

Britain Looks After Its Guests

Editorial: Britain Still Makes Films

(Sept 9 194l)(CSM)

(Aug 21 1941)(LC)

Home Dick Whittington Left Haven for Refugee Children

"London Calling" Review of New Books Aug 23 194I (CSM)

Britain s Theater Carries On On the error of the belief that the theatre would not resume its activities until after the war (Aug 23 1941) (CSM)

Book Reviews Aug 23 1941 (CSM)

(Sept II I941) (LC) The London Letter (Sept 13 194I) (CSM)

Book Reviews: R.A.R Success; Russian Moods and Actions -A London Letter Sept 13 1941 (CSM)

Milton Picks Play to Fit Day An interview with Ernest Milton about Shakespeare's "King John"

"King John " in Lively Return

(Sept 14 1941) (ST)

Review of Shakespeare's "King John"

Book Reviews: Britain In Pictures

(Aug 23 194l)(CSM)

(Sept 16 1941) (VCTD)

Book Reviews: In Defense ofLeopold- A London Letter

Soldiers Who Think

(Aug 24 I94I) (ST)

"London Calling" Review ofNew Books

Book Reviews: Love of the Land, Jersey and Oxford and Solemn and Gay

A Few Graces

(Aug 25 194l)(CSM)

(Sept 19 1941) (CSM)

Wars Strange Effects

The Case of the "Daily Worker"

(Sept 18 1941) (LC) (Sept 18 1941) (CSM)

(Aug 25 1941) (CSM)

(Sept 20 1941)(CSM)

Religious Basis of "Charter" Stressed by Church Leaders

Book Reviews: Avoidance ofRisk- A London Letter 107

Sept 20 1941 (CSM) The Valors ofMinneapolis Two American entertainers in wartime Britain

(Oct 25 194l)(CSM) Book Reviews: The Countryside, Too, Shares in the Battle ofBritain -A London Letter

(Sept 20 1941)(TAT) Book Review: A Good Way To Live

Oct25 1941 (CSM) Double Disenchantment Reviews of "Squaring the Circle" by Valentin Kataev and "Forty-Eight Hours' Leave" by James Parish

(Sept 21 1941)(ST) Book Review: In Brief (Sept 23 1941) (CSM) British Women Scan War-Effort Snags Sept 27 1941 (CSM) The Cherry Orchard A review ofChekhov's "The Cherry Orchard"

(Oct 26 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: The R.A.F. In Action and Harvest OfTen Years (Oct 29 1941)(CSM) The Parks ofEngland Still Preserve the Peace

(Sept27194l)(CSM) Book Reviews: A Historical Novel in Modern Speech and Modern Dress- A London Letter

(Nov 2 194l)(ST) Book Reviews: The Sunny Hours and Courage In Adversity

(Sept 28 1941)(ST) Book Review: Two Years Of Struggle

(Nov 8 1941)(CSM) Book Reviews: Ralegh as Poet; The Journals of George Sturt -A London Letter

Sept30 1941 (CSM) Poetry and Arthur Riscoe: Drama Report From London An appreciation of the talents of comedians (Oct 2 1941) (CSM) Six Exiled Rulers Find Solace in Britain (Oct 4 1941) (CSM) Book Reviews: Recapturing Incidents From the Vanished Past- A London Letter (Oct 5 1941) (ST) Book Review: A Short History of the Montagu Puffins

Nov 8 1941 (CSM) London Theaters Thriving Lots of new productions but hardly any new plays (Nov 9 1941) (ST) Book Review: Heroism At Sea (Nov 13 1941) (LC) Book Review: Sir Hugh Walpole sLast Novel (Nov 15 1941) (LC) Hugh Walpole s Last Letter- A London Letter

(Oct 9 1941) (CSM) Britain Takes Control ofBBC News Service

Nov 15 1941 (CSM) Long Runs on London Stages "Chu Chin Chow" and "Me and My Girl"

(Oct 12 1941) (ST) Book Review: Inside Germany

(Nov 15 1941)(CSM) Democracy Is What?

(Oct 15 1941) (CSM) Nazi "Radio Voice" Invades Britain

(Nov 16 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Master ofGadshill and Treasure Trove

(Oct 17 1941) (CSM) Curb on Paper Brings British Book "Crisis" (Oct 18 1941) (CSM) Leslie Howard, Anglo-American Interpreter (Oct 18 1941) (CSM) "A Study in Half-Tones; Fascism and Mr Auden "-A London Letter (Oct 19 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: Mr Quentin Reynolds, In Brief and Cricketers All (Oct 21 1941) (CSM) BBC "Sponsors" Nazi Hecklers

(Nov l7194l)(CSM) British Women Rallied to War Effort (Nov 18 1941) (CSM) Britain Extends Control Over Radio (Nov 22 1941) (CSM) "Forty-Ninth Parallel" (Nov 23 1941) (ST) Book Review: Sea Raider Nov 29 1941 (CSM) Literary Lesson Review of"The Nutmeg Tree" by Margery Sharp 108

(Nov 29 194l)(CSM) Book Review: A Study of the British in India

(Jan 4 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief

(Nov 30 1941) (ST) Book Review: Zuleika Again

Jan 10 1942 (CSM) Emlyn Williams' New Play Reviews of"The Morning Star", which has been poorly received by the critics, but which is not as bad as they would have it, and of "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

(Dec 4 1941 )(LC) London Letter (Dec 4 194l)(CSM) British Women Back Conscription Plan (Dec 6 1941)(CSM) Book Reviews: Three Outstanding Books for Young Readers - A London Letter (Dec 6 1941) (CSM) Australia in Britain (Dec 6 1941) (CSM) Ships With Wings (Dec 7 194l)(ST) Book Reviews: The American Spirit and Mr Churchill (Dec 8 1941)(CSM) All Dutch Colonies at War: Have Substantial Aid for US. (Dec 18 1941) (CSM) Radio Tuned to War Needs (Dec 19 1941) (CSM) Grants in Woodford Wells Foretaste of Hobson's later book? Dec 20 1941 (CSM) Moscow to London A review of "Distant Point" by Afinogenov (Dec 20 1941)(TAT) Book Reviews: Looking Backwards (Dec 20 1941)(CSM) Book Reviews: Essays of Enchantment; Victorian Oxford- A London Letter Dec 24 1941 (LC) London s American Marines: R.L.S. and Leicester Square: How the Old Vic Company has Carried On

(Jan 11 1942)(ST) Book Review: A Woman in Diplomacy Jan 17 1942 (CSM) "Old Acquaintance" in London A review of John Van Druten's new play "Old Acquaintance", a play that Hobson feels will be the last of its kind (Jan 17 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: A London Letter (Jan 18 1942)(ST) Book Review: Parliament (Jan 21 1942)(CSM) Traveling British Cinemas Teach Ways to Win War (Jan 21 1942) (CSM) Postwar Britain: The Academic World Looks Ahead (Jan 24 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Some Memoirs and a Biography -A London Letter (Jan 25 1942) (ST) Book Review: In Brief (Jan 26 1942) (CSM) Anthony Trollope (Jan 31 1942) (TAT) Book Reviews: New Novels

Jan 1 1942 (LC) ... Robert Morley, Actor, interviewed: London Theatre Prospering

Jan 31 1942 (CSM) Revues Dominate London Stage "The fact is that nobody really thinks that the British theater is at the moment measuring up to the tremendous challenge of world events ... most British, and to a certain extent American, dramatists are still living in a dream world of the nineteen twenties, when a smart cynicism seemed to them an adequate substitute for any deeper philosophy"

(Jan 2 1942) (CSM) Britain Joins America in New Years Prayers

(Feb 1 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: The Family Weekend Book

(Jan 3 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Oxford Collects 40,000 Quotations in English -A London Letter

(Feb 14 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Churchill and Guedalla; Eliot and Kipling

(Dec 28 1941) (ST) Book Reviews: An Eminent Soldier, French Bouquet and In Brief

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A review of J. B. Priestley's new play "GoodNight, Children"

(Feb 14 1942) (CSM)

British Prisoners of War in Reich Get Oxford Books

(Mar 22 1942) (ST)

(Feb 14 l942)(CSM)

Book Review: Departed Glories

The Conduct of the War

(Mar 26 1942) (LC)

(Feb 15 l942)(ST)

Book Review: Winston Churchill on "My Early Life"

Book Reviews: Looking at Life and In Brief Feb 19 1942 (LC)

(Mar 27 1942) (CSM)

How Will the War Affect Hollywood?

Editorial: Royalty in Britain

An interview with Emlyn Williams

(Mar 28 1942) (CSM)

(Feb 22 1942) (ST)

Book Reviews: Mr Wells and the War in the Air as It Is

Book Reviews: From Emerson to Hemingway and Edwardians at Play

(Mar 29 1942) (ST)

(Feb 27 1942) (CSM)

Book Reviews: In Brief and Back to the Army

Back to the Victorians

(Mar 30 1942) (CSM)

(Feb 27 1942) (CSM)

All Britain Answers Kings Call to Prayer

Editorial: Freedom of Speech

(Apr 3 1942) (CSM) Britain Has Caches

Feb 28 1942 (CSM)

Britain Military Tends to Free "Stars " in Upholding Morale

(Apr 4 1942) (CSM)

Book Reviews: A New Study of Thomas Hardy as a Literary Man -A London Letter

Should artists (actors, writers etc.) be exempt from military service? (Feb 28 1942) (CSM)

Apr 4 1942 (CSM)

Book Reviews: Emphasizing the Parallel Between Napoleon and Hitler -A London Letter

News ofArt, Music and the Theater Reviews ofthe revivals of Shaw's "The Doctor's Dilemma" and Frederick Lonsdale's "On Approval"

(Mar I 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: The Short Story and The Queensberrys

(Apr 5 1942) (ST) Book Review: Pilgrims' Club

(Mar61942)(CSM)

(Apr 9 1942) (TL)

New Day Nurseries to Let Mothers Work

The Cricketer Without a Rival

(Mar 7 1942) (CSM)

On Lord Frederick Beauclerk

Book Reviews: The Education ofEdward VII of Great Britain -A London Letter (Mar 9 1942) (VCTD)

(Apr II 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Political Reminiscences and Literary Essays -A London Letter

Freedom ofSpeech

Apr 14 1942 (CSM)

(Mar 12 1942) (LC)

The Stage Door

Churchill, Castleton and Cambridge

(Apr 16 1942) (LC)

(Mar 12 1942) (CSM)

Learning has not Abdicated her Throne

Britain Cracks Down on Gambling and Racing

Apr 18 1942 (CSM)

(Mar 15 l942)(ST)

The North Comes South

Book Reviews: 1Wo Poets, San Francisco and Dream of Childhood

George Black's "Happidrome" (Apr 19 1942) (ST)

(Mar 21 1942) (CSM)

Book Review: A Victorian Panorama

Book Reviews: Rising Tide ofPoetryA London Letter

Apr 25 1942 (CSM)

Mar 21 1942 (CSM)

Mr Priestley and the B. B. C.

The Invasion ofPoland Reviews ofLajos Biro's "The School For Slavery" and Emlyn Williams's "The Morning Star'' 110

(Apr 26 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Doctors' Memories and Country Sketches

(Jun 3 1942) (CSM) More Education For Every British Child Is Planned

(May 2 1942)(CSM) Book Reviews: A London Letter

(Jun 6 1942) (TAT) ... OfThe Governing Class

(May 3 1942) (ST) Book Review: A Soldiers Memories

Jun 6 1942 (CSM) Mr Cochran s New Revue "Big Top"

(May 7 1942) (LC) Book Review: Mr Churchill Probes the German Character May 9 1942 (CSM) "Skylark" in London A review of Samson Raphael son's comedy "Skylark" (May 9 1942) (CSM) Paintings Return to London For Temporary Exhibition (May 9 1942) (CSM) Nazis Shed "Crocodile Tears" About Raids (May 10 1942) (ST) Book Review: Letters from London May 16 1942 (CSM) Revue, "With Servicemen " A visit Hobson made to the Arts Theatre, Cambridge (May 17 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Americas Story, Women ofNew China and It Can Happen Here May 21 1942 (LC) Why We Must Keep Our Mouths Shut Hobson wonders whether the film "Next of Kin" will mean that films (and plays) will now abjure the "boy meets girl" plot (May 24 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and War Nurse (Undated May) (CSM) Book Review: Seventeenth Century Chinese Isolationists -A London Letter (May 28 1942) (TL) Film Guide (May 29 1942) (CSM) Warning: "Enemy Listening"

(Jun 7 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Parish and Pulpit, Pearl Harbour and Penetrating Essays (Jun ll 1942) (LC) General Smuts' Plan for a Better World (Jun l3 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Mr Churchill on the Capacity of Germans for War- A London Letter (Jun 14 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and 1Wo Observers (Jun 20 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Pre-Raphaelite AlbumA London Letter (Jun 20 1942) (CSM) Documentaries and Their Part in the War (Jun 20 1942) (CSM) Swords Out of Celluloid (Jun 21 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Two Observers (Jun 25 1942) (LC) No Spirit is Downcast (Jun 27 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Early Days of War Recalled; Future Brought New -A London Letter (Jun 27 1942) (CSM) London s Lively Old Bookshops Jun 27 1942 (CSM) More Revues in London (Jul3 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Phrases Sparkle in Anthology; War Front Visited- A London Letter (Jul5 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and One Mans Road

(May 29 1942) (CSM) The Home Forum

(Julll 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Public Men in Close View; Smuts Ponders Future - A London Letter

(May 29 1942) (CSM) Britain s War Films

(Jull2 l942)(ST) Book Review: In Brief

(May 31 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Crime Cases

(Jull8 1942) (CSM) "The Young Mr Pitt" Ill

(Jul 18 1942) (CSM) Will Added Travelers Rescue Liners From Air Rivals?

(Aug 27 1942) (LC) "Great Contemporaries" by Winston Churchill

(Jul 19 1942) (ST) Book Review: Commando Raids

(Aug 29 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Walter de Ia Mares Stories; Mr Churchill Recalls -A London Letter

(Jul23 1942) (LC) Seventy-minute Films to Show Britain at War

(Aug 29 1942) (CSM) Editorial: Exchanging Sports

(Jul 30 1942) (CSM) The Home Forum

Aug 29 1942 (CSM) 1Wo Plays About the Air War Terence Rattigan's "Flare Path" and Emlyn Williams's "The Morning Star"

Aug 1 1942 (CSM) Henson and the Hulberts Leslie Henson's revue "Fine and Dandy" and the musical comedy "Full Swing" with Jack Hulbert

(Aug 30 1942) (ST) Book Review: Destroyed by Bombing (Sept I 1942) (CSM) Baily and Scott

(Aug 2 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Russia s Hopes and In Brief

Sept 5 1942 (CSM) The Cleverness of Miss Lillie Beatrice Lillie in "Big Top"

(Aug 4 1942) (CSM) Americans Sightsee in London; Officers Attend Cricket Match

(Sept 5 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Notes on Writers Left by Mrs Woolf; Nesbitt Genealogy- A London Letter

(Aug 4 1942) (CSM) Editorial: No More "Slush" (Aug 5 1942) (CSM) English Seaside, 1942 Aug 8 1942 (CSM) Male Cast in Sea Play A review of "Lifeline" by Norman Armstrong and "The Springtime of Others" by Jean-Jacques Bernard (Aug 9 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Things of the Spirit, The Old Adam and In Hospital

(Sept 6 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Cowboys and Outlaws + Hitler and his Satellites (Sept 19 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: An Examination ofthe Causes of the Surrender ofFrance -A London Letter Sept 19 1942 (CSM) News ofArt, Music and the Theater Herbert Farjeon's "Light and Shade" (Sept 20 1942) (ST) Book Review: Great Voyages

(Aug 15 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: The Englishman Again Exercises the Right to Grumble -A London Letter

(Sept 26 1942) (CSM) The Battle ofBritain

Aug 15 1942 (CSM) London Stage Tries Revivals "The Maid of the Mountains", "Rose Marie" and "Rebecca"

(Sept 27 1942) (ST) Book Review: Eyewitness in Berlin

(Aug 16 1942)(ST) Book Reviews: In Brief and German Worries

Sept 29 1942 (CSM) British Interest in Theater and Books Active Despite War A survey of the current success of plays about the war

(Aug 20 1942)(LC) "Of Small Places and Great Fame"

(Oct 2 1942) (CSM) The Home Forum

Aug 22 1942 (CSM) Fancy Rules in Farjeon Revue "Light and Shade"

(Oct 3 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews

(Aug 23 1942) (ST) Book Review: Bible Plays

Oct 3 1942 (CSM) War Plays in Wartime The failed "Escort" by Sir Patrick Hastings

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(Oct 4 1942) (ST) Book Review: Snapshots of the War

(Nov 28 1942) (CSM) "Coastal Command"

(Oct 15 1942) (LC) Packed with Life and Energy and Youth

(Nov 29 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Views of Our Allies and The Sea War

(Oct 17 1942)(CSM) Book Reviews: Liddell Hart as the Norman Angell of the Present War- A London Letter

(Nov 30 1942) (CSM) Britain Adds Anew To Blitz Honor Roll

(Oct 17 1942) (CSM) The Illusive Col. Britton

(Dec 3 1942)(CSM) Luton Won 't Take Its Hat Off

(Oct 18 1942) (ST) A Soldiers Life

(Dec 5 1942)(CSM) Book Reviews: A London Letter

Oct 24 1942 (CSM) One That Shaw Missed "The Belle of New York"

(Dec 6 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: The Poet Laureate, Dachshund Ways and "Underground" France

(Oct 24 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: An Anthology of Words; France Before Dunkirk - A London Letter

(Dec 10 1942) (LC) Wartime Britain Discovers the Ballet

(Oct 27 1942) (CSM) The Old Buffer (Oct 30 1942) (CSM) The German Army Legend Oct 31 1942 (CSM) The Great Mr Handel (Nov I 1942) (ST) Book Review: In Brief Nov 7 1942 (CSM) Beerbohm, Dresdel, and Duse Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" (Nov 8 1942) (ST) Book Review: North Africa (Nov 14 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: Mr Priestleys Novel of CounterEspionage - A London Letter (Nov 15 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: France Past and Present (Nov 15 1942) (ST) Prison Camp Student (Nov 15 1942) (ST) Book Review: France Past and Present

Dec 12 1942 (CSM) "Best Bib and Tucker" A revue with Tommy Trinder (Dec 12 l942)(CSM) Book Reviews: The Autobiography of an Oxford Don - A London Letter (Dec 13 1942) (ST) Book Review: Farm Life (Dec 17 1942) (TL) Prisoners Preparing for Professions Dec 19 1942 (CSM) Masters and Masterpieces John Gielgud in the tradition oflrving (Dec 19 1942) (CSM) Book Reviews: A Biography ofG.B.S. That Owes Much to Mr Shaw- A London Letter (Dec 19 l942)(CSM) War Hasn 't Touched Jane Austen (Dec 20 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Lost Empire and The Desert War Dec 26 1942 (CSM) Today? Who Wants Congreve? A review ofCongreve's "The Way of the World"

(Nov 16 1942) (CSM) Church Bells Ring Again in Britain

(Dec 27 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Home Thoughts and Stage Annals

Nov 21 1942 (CSM) Russia in Exile Peter Ustinov's "House of Regrets"

(Dec 31 1942) (LC) Germans Know Everything About War, Except How to Win

(Nov 25 1942) (CSM) Editorial: Germans and Generals

Jan 2 1943 (CSM) And Memory Gild The Past 113

Sir John Martin-Harvey auctions his stage memorabilia

(Feb 14 1943) (ST) Book Review: Endurance

(Jan 3 1943) (ST) Book Review: Vital Religion

Feb 20 1943 (CSM) "The Desert Song" Revived At the Prince of Wales

Jan 9 1943 (CSM) A Rural Dean at "The Belle" Hobson's second visit to "The Belle of New York", "the best musical comedy ever produced" (Jan 13 1943) (CSM) Editorial: Tolstoy vs. Tolstoy Jan 16 1943 (CSM) A New Play by James Bridie "If you really want to appreciate the genius of Mr Bernard Shaw, the best thing to do is to see a play written by one of his imitators. That is why James Bridie's "Holy Isle" ... is a salutary and instructive experience" (Jan 17 1943)(ST) Book Review: Rediscoveries (Jan 18 1943) (CSM) No, I Haven't Read Them

(Feb 20 1943) (CSM) The Film Looks at Battle (Feb 21 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Britain in Pictures and Escape from the Nazis (Feb 25 l943)(LC) Sir Stafford Cripps - Lawyer, Diplomat, Scientist, and Carpenter Feb 27 1943 (CSM) Wigs By Clarkson On the sale of Clarkson's theatrical mementoes (Feb 28 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: The Home Guard and Edwardians Mar 6 1943 (CSM) Honor for the Stage Lilian Braithwaite becomes a Dame

Jan 19 1943 (CSM) Shows on Sunday Debated in Britain The debate hots up

(Mar 6 1943) (CSM) The Battle of the Books

(Jan 23 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Graphic Account of Occupied Paris -A London Letter

(Mar 7 1943)(ST) Book Review: Problem ofEvil Mar 13 1943 (CSM) Back to 1860 A review of "The Streets of London" by Dion Boucicault

Jan 23 1943 (CSM) "The Petrified Forest" in London A review of this play by Robert E. Sherwood

(Mar 13 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Barrie Self-Pictured as Sociable Yet Lonely Man -A London Letter

(Jan 30 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Waifare- A London Letter Jan 30 1943 (CSM) Here Are Pantomimes Reviews of "Mother Goose", "Jack and Jill", "The Babes in the Wood" and "Cinderella"

(Mar 14 1943) (ST) Book Review: The NFS. (Mar 14 1943) (ST) Book Review: Bomber Command

Feb 6 1943 (CSM) Jesse Matthews Returns In Jerome Kern's musical, "Sally"

(Mar 21 1943)(ST) Book Reviews: Reflection and Action

(Feb 7 1943) (ST) Book Review: Introducing Mr Po/deroy

(Mar 22 1943) (CSM) Diamonds of Golconda

(Feb 12 1943) (CSM) Wytham Abbey Given Oxford; Action Outstanding Bequest

(Mar 27 1943) (CSM) Agate, Hazlitt, Pepys; Modern EnglandA London Letter

Feb 13 1943 (CSM) A New David Garrick A review of "David Garrick" written by Constance Fox for Donald Wolfit

Mar 27 1943 (CSM) Return to Turgenev A review of Emlyn Williams's adaptation of Turgenev's "A Month in the Country"

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(Mar 28 1942) (ST) Book Reviews: Legend and Facts and Out of the Past (Apr 1 1943) {LC) Land-Lease Helps Bunyan Country

A review of this show produced by George Black, and a mention of Esther McCracken's "Quiet Wedding"

Apr 3 1943 (CSM) Richard Tauber in "Old Chelsea" Reviews of Richard Tauber's "Old Chelsea" and Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End" (Apr 4 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: The Smaller Powers and A Life ofBunyan

May 22 1943 (CSM) 1Wo New Plays by Noel Coward Reviews of"Present Laughter" and "This Happy Breed"

(May 16 1943) (ST) Book Review: Great Americans

(May 23 1943)(ST) Book Reviews: Before the War and In Brief May 29 1943 (CSM) A New English Dramatist A review of Hugh Burden's "The Young and Lovely"

(Apr 10 1943) (CSM) London Rations Ballet Seats Apr 10 1943 (CSM) News ofArt, Music and the Theater Lebar's "The Merry Widow"

(May 29 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Philip Guedalla Examines 1Wo French Marshals- A London Letter

(Apr 11 1943)(ST) Book Reviews: In Brief (Apr 15 1943) (LC) Blenheim, the Bodleian, and Books (Apr 17 1943) (CSM) Epic of the Eighth Army Apr 171943 (CSM) A National Theater Comes to Britain State aid for a variety of theatre projects is increasing, as a result of the need to entertain the Home Front

(May 30 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief (Jun 3 1943)(LC) Mr Churchill is their MR (Jun 5 1943) (TLS) Cricket Prints Jun 5 1943 (CSM) Light Fare Popular in London Review of drama season (Jun 5 1943) (ST) Book Review: Short Stories

(Apr 18 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: In Brief Apr 24 1943 (CSM) The Austere Theater

(Jun 6 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Country Joys, More Scenes of Clerical Life and Short Stories

(Apr 29 1943) (TL) Big Wig Changes (Apr 29 1943)(LC) Book Reviews: Fire and Water May 8 1943 (CSM) An Enquiry by Trollope A review of Frank Harvey's adaptation of Graham Greene's novel "Brighton Rock", starring Richard Attenborough (May 8 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Lord David Cecil's Life of Hardy the Novelist -A London Letter (May 9 1943) {ST) Book Reviews: War Came to Narvik and Petain and Bazaine May 15 1943 (CSM) "Strike a New Note"

Jun 12 1943 (CSM) Reminiscence in a Restaurant A discussion between Hobson, the literary editor of a "London Weekly paper" (Leonard Russell?) and "the most erudite and witty of English cinema critics" (Dilys Powell?) about the latter two's poor opinion of the contemporary stage (Jun 12 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Victoria at Close Range (Jun l3 1943) (ST) Book Reviews (Jun 19 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: What Critics Have Said of Poets, and Poets ofPoetry -A London Letter (Jun 19 1943) (CSM) The Wigmakers ofWardour Street

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Jun 19 1943 (CSM) Mr Priestley Looks at Utopia A review of J. B. Priestley's new play "They Came to a City": "His statement of ideals ... lacks balance, and what he has to say he often says unfairly. But, in the London theater of today, the fact that there is a dramatist who has anything to say at all is enormously refreshing" (Jun 20 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: London Refuge, True Liberty and Men ofEmpire (Jun 24 1943) (LC) Book Review: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat Jun 26 1943 (CSM) "What Every Woman Knows" A review of the play by Barrie (Jun 26 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews (Jun 27 1943) (ST) Book Review: The Philippines (Jul3 1943) (TT) Alliteration and Apology Jul3 1943 (CSM) A Congreve Revival Reviews of"Show Boat" and Congreve's "Love for Love" (Jul3 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Paying Tribute to Some Great Names of Cricket- A London Letter (Jul4 1943) (ST) Book Review: Many Fronts Jul 10 1943 (CSM) "The Old Foolishness" A review of Paul Vincent Carroll's play (JuliO 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Sayings and Writings of the British Prime Minister- A London Letter

(Jul24 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Smollett, Eighteenth-Century Gossip Writer- A London Letter (Aug 1 1943) (ST) Book Review (Aug 7 1943) (CSM) Juggler Pushes His Art Ahead Reviews of"Sweet and Low" and "Hi-de-Hi" (Aug 7 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Portrait of a Great Nation by a Candid Friend- A London Letter Aug 14 1943 (CSM) When "Good" Men Obey Orders ofBad A review of Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" (Aug 14 1943)(CSM) Book Reviews: Americans and British Explained to Each Other -A London Letter (Aug 15 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Spiritual Struggle and The German Way (Aug 16 1943) (PP) First Commoner (Aug 19 1943) (LC) Kings have Gloried in Gloucester Aug 21 1943 (CSM) Inquiry Re-Aroused on Ibsen A review of a revival of Ibsen's "The Master Builder" being presented by Donald Wolfit (Aug 29 1943) (ST) Book Review: Pattern of the Cross (Sept 5 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Inside Japan, The Roosevelts and English Classics (Sept 12 1943) (ST) Book Review: John Woolman, Quaker

(Julll 1943)(ST) Book Review: Anglo-American Reports

(Sept 18 1943) (CSM) Armor Comes to Flying Fortresses

Jull7 1943 (CSM) How They Began GB actors of film and stage of past 16 years, recorded in the actors' directory, "Spotlight", launched in 1927

(Sept 19 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Malta Story and Charles the Cat

Ju124 1943 (CSM) Dr Johnson Figures in Play A review of G. K. Chesterton's "The Judgement of Dr Johnson" Jul24 1943 (CSM) Lifelike Stage Comes and Goes

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Sept 25 1943 (CSM) "Uncle fanya" Revived Chekhov's play demands "perfect production", not bravura acting · (Sept 26 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Dr. Barnardo, Guadalcanal and Pattern Victory 116

(Oct 3 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Champion ofAir Power and Pattern Victory Oct 9 1943 (CSM) A Matter of Culture On why J. B. Priestley's play "They Came to a City" is considered to be sufficiently "cultural" to qualify for remission of entertainment tax, whilst Shaw's "Heartbreak House" is not

Nov 20 1943 (CSM) Mr Redgrave Considers Critics Michael Redgrave's views on critics and his suggestion that they delay the publication of their notices for two to three days after the performance (Nov 211943)(ST) The Weeks Films

(Oct 9 1943) (CSM) Book Review Of James Agate's latest collection of criticism

Nov 27 1943 (CSM) Askey and Barrie Reviews of "The Admirable Crichton" by J. M. Barrie and Arthur Askey's performance in "The Love Racket"

(Oct 10 l943)(ST) Book Reviews: America and Britain and Greece s Flight

(Nov 27 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Editor and Author Sketched by His Secretary - A London Letter

(Oct 17 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Two Anthologies

(Nov 28 1943) (ST) The Jfeek s Films

(Oct 22 1943)(CL) Mansion Garden Separately Sold (Oct 23 1943) (CSM) England and the Churchills Oct 23 1943 (CSM) Something in the Air Hobson is tempted to say that this musical comedy, with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge, is "the best musical comedy that I have ever seen" (Oct 311943) (ST) Book Reviews: Aspects of the War Nov 6 1943 (CSM) The Battle ofBritain (Nov 7 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Many Fronts Nov 13 1943 (CSM) "Acacia Avenue" and "Dark River" (Nov 14 1943) (ST) The Weeks Films Deputising for Dilys Powell Nov 14 1943 (0) "This Is The Army" Short review of this American revue - in the "Observer"! (Nov 14 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Old Friends +Battle-Line Nov 18 1943 (LC) The Princesses Wanted to See the Bodies A survey of theatrical activity coming up to the fifth Christmas of the war

(Dec 4 1943) (CSM) Book Reviews: Poets Exalted and Humbled (Dec 5 1943) {ST) The Weeks Films (Dec 5 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: Historical Gossip (Dec 5 1943) (ST) Christmas Books for Boys Dec 18 1943 (CSM) Ellen Terry Prepares Role Dec 24 1943 (CSM) Wilde Revived in London "An Ideal Husband" (Dec 26 1943) (ST) Book Reviews: War at Sea and Life as it Flies (Jan 2 1944) (ST) Book Review: War Casualties (Jan 9 1944) (ST) Book Review: Clubs and Characters (Jan 15 1944) (CSM) A London Letter Jan 22 1944 (CSM) The London Theater Flourishes (Jan 23 1944) (ST) Book Reviews: Battle Fronts Jan 29 1944 (CSM) "While the Sun Shines" Terence Rattigan (Jan 30 1944) (ST) Book Reviews: Everyman at War. Beyond the Horizon and Words and Wit 117

(Feb 6 1944) (ST)

(Apr 2 1944)(ST)

Book Reviews: Home and Abroad and Countryman

Films for the Liberation

(Feb 10 1944) (TL)

Britain Relaxes in Wartime By Reading Up on Napoleon

Penny Plain and 1Wopence Coloured

(Apr 3 1944)(CSM)

Feb 11 1944 (CSM)

(Apr 4 1944) (CSM)

Salute to the Music Hall

Shaw Issues Challenge For New Alphabet

British theatre programmes Feb 13 1944)(ST)

Mr Priestley's Army Play "Desert Highway", a play about tank drivers (Feb 13 1944) (ST)

Book Reviews: No Place Like Home Feb 19 1944 (CSM)

The Great Lyle (Feb 20 1944) (ST)

Book Reviews: Army Sisters

Apr 8 1944 (CSM)

Central Pool OfArtists (Apr 8 1944) (CSM) American Plows Come to "Lorna Doone" (Apr 9 1944) (ST)

East and West (Apr 15 1944) (CSM)

Book Reviews: Reciting Poetry Keeps Field Marshal in Mood for War- A London Letter Apr 15 1944 (CSM)

(Feb 26 1944) (CSM)

"Salute to the Soldier"

Book Reviews: Sea, Land, and Air

A revue mounted by the British War Office

(Feb 26 1944) (CSM)

(Apr 16 1944) (ST)

Welcome, Highbrows

Book Review: Distress of Spirit

(Feb 26 1944) (CSM)

Apr 22 1944 (CSM)

English Attitude to Orson Welles

Simple as A.B. C.A.

(Feb 27 1944) (ST)

Apr 29 1944 (CSM)

Book Reviews: Comedy and Tragedy

New Musical Comedy Stars

Mar 4 1944 (CSM)

(Apr 30 1944)(ST)

A Soldier for Christmas

Book Reviews: Echoes ofTobruk

(Mar 5 1944) (ST) Book Reviews: Religion Today

(May 5 1944) (CSM) Request From Essex

Mar 5 1944 (ST) Army's Group OfActors

Manners and Musical Comedy

Mar 11 1944 (CSM)

"Desert Highway" in London (Mar 12 1944) (ST)

May 61944 (CSM) Discussion of John Gielgud's "Hamlet" (May 7 1944) (ST)

Success of the L.RO.

To-day and To-morrow and Some Studies in Religion

(May 7 1944) (ST) Into War

(Mar 15 1944) (CSM)

(May 21 1944) (ST)

A London Letter

The London Library

(Mar 19 1944) (ST)

May 21 1944 (ST)

Book Review: Battlefront

New Old Vic

Mar 25 1944 (CSM)

Helping actors after the war

Miss Gingold Plies Her Satire

(May 21 1944)(ST)

Review of "Sweeter and Lower"

Bahai Centenary

(Mar 26 1944) (ST)

(May 211944)(ST)

Book reviews: Weapons for Victory

Noel Coward's New Film

(Mar 26 1944) (ST)

(May 28 1944) (ST)

Memorial to Lincoln

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classified as "educational" by the Board of Customs and Excise, therefore permitting them to be exempted from paying entertainment tax

(May 28 1944)(ST) Books Lost By Bombing Jun 3 1944 (CSM) Journalism in the Theater Review of J. B. Priestley's "How Are They At Home?''

(Jul2 1944) (ST) The Weeks Films (Jul4 1944) (TST) Editorial: Retribution

(Jun 4 1944)(ST) French Secret Press Backs Britain

(Jul5 1944) (TST) Editorial: Paradox

(Jun41944)(ST) Re-Stocking Europe s Libraries

(Julll l944)(TST) Editorial: On From Caen

Jun 10 1944 (CSM) "The Student Prince Revived" A review of "The Student Prince", "Something for the Boys" and "Jill Darling"

(Jull2 l944)(TST) Editorial: Continuing To Victory (Jull5 l944)(CSM) "Lady Hamilton" Revived

Jun 11 1944 (ST) "The Winters Tale" A review of a Regent's Park production (Jun ll 1944) (ST) France Waits the Word

(Jull5 1944) (CSM) Book Reviews A review of James Agate's "These Were Actors"

(Jun ll l944)(ST) Book Reviews: Evocations and Memories ofMr Maisky

(Jul 16 1944) {ST) Book Reviews: Pomp and Circumstance, Achievement and Evenings in the Stalls

(Jun l3 l944)(TST) Editorial: Battle ofEurope

(Jull8 l944)(TST) Editorial: we/come

(Jun 14 l944){TST) Editorial: Forgotten Front

(Jul 22 1944) (CSM) Men Without Wings

Jun 18 1944 {ST) Excise Test For Plays

(Jul22 1944) (CSM) Search for Bombed Books

(Jun 20 1944) (TST) Editorial: Mr Churchill s Speech

Jul 23 1944 (EG) London s Lost Music Hall An article provoked by consideration of an old music hall programme

(Jun 21 1944) (TST) Editorial: Greatness of Our Effort Jun 24 1944 (CSM) A New Actress in London A review of Kate O'Brien's "The Last of Summer"

(Ju123 l944)(ST) Book Reviews: Another %r (Jul29 1944) (TC) The Parson of Redbourn Jul29 1944 (CSM) Drama and Doodlebugs Review of "Quaker Girl"

(Jun 25 1944) (ST) The Weeks Films (Jun 25 1944) (ST) Book Review: Europe

(Jul 30 1944) (ST) The City ofLondon

(Jun 28 1944) (TST) Editorial: On From Cherbourg

(Jul30 l944)(ST) Government And Industry

(Jull 1944) (CSM) Americans at Lords Jull 1944 (CSM) Exchequer Aesthetics A consideration of the plays that have been

Jul 30 1944 {ST} Old Vic s 1Wo Companies Aug 13 1944 (ST) More Stars In Ensa Shows

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(Aug 13 l944)(ST) Books for Europe

Review of"The Banbury Noose" by Peter Ustinov. The liberated capitals

(Aug l3 1944) (ST) Book Review: Air Force Strategy

(Oct 8 1944) (ST) Book Reviews: Two War Fronts

(Aug 16 l944)(TST) Editorial: The Latest Invasion

Oct 14 1944 (CSM) The Return of the Old Vic Company Reviews of"Peer Gynt" (with Ralph Richardson - "tremendously vital performance" - directed by Tyrone Guthrie), "Arms and the Man" (Olivier as Saranoffand Richardson as the Swiss Soldier) and "Richard III" (Olivier has "his glorious hour"). Unfortunately the review concentrates on the Shaw, with no direct analysis of "Richard III"

Aug 19 1944 (CSM) "Farceurs Laugh at Bombs " "Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?", starring Ralph Lynn (Aug 22 1944) (TST) Editorial: Complete Victory (Aug 23 1944) (TST) Editorial (Aug 29 1944) (TST) Editorial (Sept 5 1944) (TST) Editorial: Dunkirk

(Oct 15 1944) (ST) Book Review: Flights and Fights Oct 22 1944 (ST) Clive Brook For West End (Oct 22 1944) (ST) Book Review: Gothic Revival?

(Sept 6 1944) (TST) Editorial: The Why of Disaster

Oct 29 1944 (ST) The Army Now Has Its Own Theatre Unit

Sept I 0 1944 (ST) "Arms and the Man"

(Oct 29 1944) (ST) Book Review: Another G. B.S. +Allies and Others

(Sept 10 1944) (ST) Book Review: Natures Mystery

Nov 5 1944 (ST) A Shaw Revival "Too True to Be Good"

(Sept 12 1944) (TST) Editorial: The Tide ofFreedom Sept I6 1944 (CSM) Cheerful Play, Cheerful Player Review of"Bird-in-Hand"

(Nov 5 1944) (ST) Scarborough To Be More Popular Nov 5 1944 (ST) More ENSA Shows For India

Sept 17 1944 (ST) Ensa to Open in Paris

(Nov 5 1944) (ST) Book Review

(Sept I9 1944) (TST) Editorial: Lesson For Germany

(Nov 7 1944) (DD) Editorial: As We See It Hobson has embraced the political creed of conservatism, welcoming the seven principles that Oliver Lyttleton had published for the Conservative Party: " ... Conservatism is a political philosophy that is forward looking. It aims at keeping what is good from the past, and earning what is better from the future. In short, it is a policy of deserving and preserving"

(Sept 26 1944) (NJ) Editorial: A Great Achievement (Sept 26 1944) (NJ) Editorial: An Historic Session (Sept 28 1944) (NJ) Editorial: Paratroops ' Great Part (Oct I l944)(ST) Radio Oct I 1944 (ST) Trial Ground For London Plays Oct 7 1944 (CSM) The Army Tradition

Nov 12 1944 (ST) Post-War Theatre Hours Theatre managers are beginning to consider whether they should start plays later when the war is over (many are quite happy with the situation as it is) + Hobson starts his practice of listing some current productions at the end of his column 120

(Nov 14 l944)(DD) Editorial: As We See It

(Dec 2 1944) (CSM) Learning From the Victorians

(Nov 15 l944)(DD) Editorial: France

Dec 3 1944 (ST) Shakespeare For Troops On Continent

(Nov 16 l944)(DD) Editorial: Tell the World

(Dec 3 l944)(ST) Book Review: Conway Days

Nov 18 1944 (CSM) A Difference ofManners Two plays have recently caused uproar at the theatre. The first, Gordon Sherry's "Felicity Jasmine", about a scent which rendered English girls attractive to American soldiers, survived four performances before the Lord Chamberlain withdrew its license on the grounds that it was an immoral entertainment. The second, "Daughter Janie", was booed for its portrayal of American soldiers entertaining 16 year old High School girls who behaved with "extreme freedom"

(Dec 3 1944) (ST) Growing Vogue For R.L.S. (Dec 5 1944) (DD) Editorial: Courage and Bluff Dec 10 1944 (ST) Seats At The Play For Men On Leave Dec 16 1944 (CSM) Top Stage Receipts in London "Quiet Week End" Dec 17 1944 (ST) Frances Day As Peter Pan

(Nov 19 l944)(ST) Book Review: Ourselves

(Dec 24 1944) (ST) The WeekS Films

Nov 19 1944 (ST) Theatres Are Breaking Records A short record of the financial success of certain shows (e.g. "Blithe Spirit") during the war

(Dec 24 1944) (ST) Book Review: Legal Byways

(Nov 21 l944)(TST) Editorial: The French Fighting

(Dec 24 1944)(ST) Do You Know? (Dec 24 1944)(ST) Book Reviews: Private Lives

(Nov 22 1944) (TST) Editorial: Prescription For Victory

(Jan l 1945) (DD) Editorial: 1945

Nov 25 1944 (CSM) "Too True To Be Good" Revived A review of this work - "not among Bernard Shaw's best plays"

(Jan 2 1945) (DD) Editorial: Houses

(Nov 26 1944) (ST) Book Review: From Nature To God

(Jan 3 1945) (TST) Editorial: Houses (Jan 4 1945) (DD) Editorial: The Real Test

(Nov 28 1944) (DD) Editorial: "Harley Street" Of Industry Nov 29 1944 (CSM) Appreciation of Shakespeare Unparalleled Since Waterloo Because of Olivier's "Richard III" and Gielgud's "Hamlet" (Nov 29 1944)(CSM) Dilettante Diary

(Jan 7 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: The War on Many Fronts (Jan 9 1945) (DD) Editorial: The West Front (Jan 12 1945) (DD) Editorial: "Vindicated" (Jan 14 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Much Discourse and Epitaph (Jan 16 1945)(TST) Editorial: Eastern Attack

(Nov 30 1944) (DD) Editorial: The Future Is Bright Dec 2 1944 (CSM) Comedy of Qua"el at Apollo A review of the revival of Coward's "Private Lives"

(Jan 17 1945) (TST) Editorial: Unconditional Surrender Jan 20 1945 (CSM) The Lunts in London A survey of current theatrical activity

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(Jan 21 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Arnhem Diary and Good Deeds

(Feb 18 1945)(ST) Book Review: The Road to China

(Jan 23 1945) (TST) Editorial: Advance Into Germany

(Feb 21 1945) (TST) Editorial: Justice For Land Girls

(Jan 24 1945) (DD) Editorial: New Enterprise

Feb 24 1945 (CSM) Robert Donat Presents Story Of Cinderella at StJamess

(Jan 27 1945) (CSM) Book Reviews

(Feb 25 1945) (ST) Fifty Books Of Beauty

(Jan 27 1945) (CSM) The Days of Napoleon and Our Own (Jan 28 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: The Making ofan American

(Feb 25 1945)(ST) Book Reviews: Great Questions and Battles Long Ago

Jan 28 1945 (ST) Play From the Front Line

(Feb 26 1945) (DD) Editorial: Going Well

(Jan 28 1945) (ST) Book Review: Before the Deluge

(Feb 27 1945) (DD) Editorial: Sites for Industry

(Feb 4 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Naval Ways

(Feb 28 1945) (TST) Editorial: Justice In Europe

(Feb 6 1945) (TST) Editorial

(Mar 1 1945) (DD) Editorial: Poland

(Feb 7 1945) (TST) Editorial: They Deserve Well

(Mar 3 1945) (CSM) Oxford Anniversary Honors Bodleian Library s Founder

(Feb 10 1945)(CSM) There Are Lincolns Still in Norfolk Article on Lincoln's ancestors Feb 10 1945 (CSM) "Uncle Vanya" in London A solid review of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", starring Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, which gives an early indication of Hobson's delight in well conceived and acted minor roles Feb 11 1945 (ST) Toy Theatre Revival (Feb 11 1945) (ST) Editorial: War Gratuities First ST editorial? (Feb 11 1945) (ST) Book Review: Evocations (Feb 12 1945) (TST) Editorial: Preparing For Peace (Feb 15 1945) (TST) Editorial: Memorials

Mar3 1945 (CSM) "Emma" on the Stage A review of Gordon Glennon's adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma" (starring Frank Allenby) Mar 4 1945 (ST) Dons As Play Producers John Gielgud involves the universities in his productions of "Hamlet" and "The Duchess of Malfi" (Mar 4 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Commentaries on Our Time (Mar 5 1945) (DD) Editorial: A Tremendous Week-end (Mar 6 1945) (DD) Editorial: Security (Mar 10 1945) (TST) Editorial: Beyond The Rhine (Mar 11 1945) (ST) Television

(Feb 16 1945)(TST) Editorial: This Is One Battle

(Mar 11 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Golden Age ofFurniture and Christian Worker

(Feb 18 1945) (ST) Allies and German Book Trade

(Mar 13 1945) (TST) Editorial: Britain and France 122

(Mar 18 1945) (ST)

{Apr 17 1945) {TST)

Book Review: Wild Life in the Highlands

Editorial: New Leader, Old Policy

(Mar 18 1945) (ST)

(Apr 18 1945)(CSM)

Poetry Harvest

"Nae Man Can Tether" Macintyre

Mar 24 1945 (CSM)

(Apr 21 1945) (CSM)

A review of"Three Waltzes"

Britain Depicts Pacific War; Capra sBurma Film Barred

Mar 24 1945 (CSM)

(Apr 22 1945) (ST)

London Theaters Filled Now But See Big Boom With Peace

Editorial

Evelyn Laye in New Play

The German Horrors

(Mar 25 1945)(ST)

(Apr 22 1945) (ST)

Lord Alfred Douglas

Book Reviews: Aspects of the War

(Mar 28 1945) (NJ)

(Apr 22 1945) (ST)

Editorial: Great Expectations

National Book League

(Mar 30 1945) (CSM)

(Apr 29 l945)(ST)

Strabolgi Squirms at Shadow Of Peerage Where'er He Peers

Book Review: Victorian Ladies

Mar 31 1945 (CSM)

Editorial: Chaos in Germany

His Modesty Indicated In Current Plays Hobson questions John Gielgud's modesty in casting himself in minor roles in his productions (Mar 311945)(CSM)

Rank Monopoly (Apr 1 1945) (ST)

Teaching Ban On Clergy

(May 1 1945)(TST) May 5 1945 (CSM)

Diana Wynyard in Emlyn Williams ' New Play Review of "The Wind of Heaven" (May 6 1945) (ST)

Book Reviews: Mr Churchill and the Sculptor and Garden Pleasures May 12 1945 (CSM)

"The Duchess ofMalfi"

(Apr 1 1945) (ST)

Split Seconds (Apr 2 1945) (CSM)

Greenwich sAccurate Signals Aid "Monty"; British Double Summer Time Irks Cows (Apr 2 1945) (CSM)

Britain Wants Army Of Volunteers

May 13 1945 (ST)

E.N.S.A. Work To Go On May 19 1945 (CSM)

Romance and lvor Novello Review of "Perchance to Dream" (May 20 1945)(ST)

Will Hay As Dr Muffin in Variety Programme

Book Reviews: Battle Lines, Oxford Tribute to Greece and Defence of the Empire

Apr 7 1945 (CSM) Great Day, Irene and Will Hay

Book Reviews: Fact and Fancy

Apr 8 1945 (ST)

(May 27 1945)(ST)

Tribute From Mme Chekowa

Our Books For German Re-Education

Apr 8 1945 (ST)

Jun 3 1945 (ST)

Apr 7 1945 (CSM)

Book Review: Nights Beyond Recall (Apr lO 1945) (CSM)

Perils ofBritish Mlcation: Bombs - Barbed Wire- Glass

(May 27 1945) (ST)

60 Years OfO.UD.S. The celebrations of the diamond jubilee (Jun 3 1945) {ST)

US. Aid In Rebuilding Britain

(Apr 13 1945) (MG)

(Jun 3 l945)(ST)

Dynamic British Movie Magnate

Books For Europe

(Apr 15 1945) (ST)

Jun 3 1945 (ST)

Book Review: Authorship

Mr Gielgud To Tour Burma 123

(Jun 7 1945) (CSM) Labor M.P.s Included in Honors List

(Jull5 l945)(ST) Raid Damage Dues May Continue

Jun 9 1945 (CSM) Wilder Fantasy Provokes Lively Debate A review ofThornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth", directed by Laurence Olivier

(Jul 15 1945) (ST) Books of the Week

(Jun 10 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Five Years' Toil Jun lO 1945 (ST) Arts Theatre Players (Jun ll l945)(CSM) Churchill Own Constituency To Elect Him Without a Vote

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(Jun 12 l945)(CSM) Britons Can 't Fly Union Jack - But They Fly It Just the Same (Jun 17 l945)(ST) Book Review: War Poems Jun 17 1945 (ST) Striking Russian Play Short review of Ostrovsky's "Larissa" (Jun 24 1945) (ST) Soldiers' Rush To Phone (Jun 24 1945) (ST) Editorial: The Churchs Task (Jun 24 1945) (ST) Semi-Eclipse Over Britain (Jun 27 1945) (CSM) Churchill Out for 1-Vtes But Not in Own District Churchill will be opposed in his own seat (Jun 27 1945) (TST) Editorial: Churchill Tour

(Jul 22 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: High Spirited Autobiography, In Russia Now and Books of the Week Jul28 1945 (CSM) Battle Royal in London Review ofGinsbury's "The First Gentleman" Jul29 1945 (ST) Hazlitt Said No A review of two productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Hobson's first whilst deputising for the absent James Agate - ". . . if the Haymarket has few fairies it has the great glory of Miss Ashcroft's "Titania"; and in Miss Ashcroft there is more enchantment than in a whole wilderness of elves and sprites. Lovely at all times, both in grace of movement and in caressing beauty of speech, Miss Ashcroft's performance at one point touches the very crown of delight. I mean that speech in which Titania talks of the parentage of the little black boy who is the cause of her dispute with Oberon. Her first words, about "the spiced India air" and "Neptune's yellow sands" and the "wanton wind", are a lovely device of elaborate decoration; but it is the sudden change to real and deep emotion on the line, "But she, being mortal, of that boy did die", which melts the heart and takes the reason captive" Jul 29 1945 (ST) 4 New Plays In ~rse A project by the director of the Pilgrim Players, Martin Browne, to demonstrate that "the poetic form is flexible enough to deal with practically every aspect of human existence"

(Jull l945)(ST) Profiles ofNational- Conservative- Candidates

(Jul29 1945) (ST) Books of the Week

(Jul I 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Many Fronts

Aug 5 1945 (ST) Private Judgement A review of"Kiss and Tell" by F. Hugh Herbert, (". . . it deals with characters who suffer either from precocity or arrested development. The children in it are adult, and the adults childish")

(Jul4 1945) (TST) Editorial: Let Mr Churchill Finish The Job Jul 8 1945 (ST) Plays To Help Soldiers Jul8 1945 (ST) Long West End Runs "Blithe Spirit" now = longest running nonmusical ( 1716 performances)

Aug 12 1945 (ST) Faster, Faster Reviews of "For Crying Out Loud" (revue), "Tomorrow's Eden" (Miss Charles and Mr Sutherland), "Grand Guignol", "The Circle of Chalk"

(Jul 8 1945) (ST) Books ofthe Week and Mr Churchill in Pictures

(Aug 12 1945)(ST) Books of the Week 124

(Aug 19 1945) (ST) Books of the Week Aug 25 1945 (CSM) Speed in the Theater Review of "For Crying Out Loud"

Nov 10 1945 (CSM) "Oedipus Rex" at the Old Vic Sophocles' play, translated by W. B. Yeats and starring Laurence Olivier: his famous cry "echoes round the theater and shakes the heart"

(Aug 26 1945) (ST) Books of the Week

Nov 11 1945 (ST) Arts Council Opposed To Long Runs

(Aug 26 1945) (ST) Colleges Full For A Year

(Nov 11 1945)(ST) Books of the Week Nov 17 1945 (CSM) A Play About the Romanovs "The Red Horizon" by Osbert Sitwell and R. J. Minney

(Aug 26 1945) (ST) Sir Humphrey Milford (Sept 2 1945) (ST) Books of the Week and For the Young Reader

(Nov 18 1945)(ST) Books of the Week

(Sept 9 1945) (ST) Books of the ffeek

(Nov 18 1945) (ST) Book Review: Fact and Fiction

Sept 15 1945 (CSM) Noel Coward Revue "Sigh No More"

(Nov 18 1945)(ST) Literary Bursaries

(Sept 16 1945) (ST) Books ofthe Week

Nov 18 1945 (ST) Theatre Boom

(Sept 30 1945) (ST) Books ofthe Week

Nov 24 1945 (CSM) Number ofHouses Reduced By 12 Per Cent Since 1939 "The London theater at the moment is in an extremely congested condition. There are 35 West End playhouses available for publ~c dramatic performances and every one of them ts occupied"

(Sept 30 1945) (ST) Canadian Publishers in London (Oct 7 1945) (ST) Book Review: Peace and Faith and Books of the Week (Oct 7 1945) (ST) Cardinal Newman Centenary

(Nov 25 1945) (ST) Films of the Week

(Oct 16 1945) (CSM) On the Democracy ofKings

(Nov 25 1945) (ST) Book Review: Behind the Scenes

(Oct 21 1945)(ST) Lady Elenor Smith

(Nov 25 1945) (ST) Book Reviews: Gift Books for Christmas and War and Peace

(Oct 21 1945)(ST) British Sailors ' Welfare

(Dec 2 1945) (ST) Films of the Week

Oct 27 1945 (CSM) "Fine Feathers " A review of Jack Buchanan's revue

(Dec 2 1945) (ST) Books of the Week and Factory Front

Oct 28 1945 (ST) Untitled Theatre Review "The Red Horizon" by Sir Osbert Sitwell and R. J. Minney, "The Forrigan Reel" by James Bridie, and "Follow the Girls"

(Dec 9 1945) (ST) Books of the Week

Oct 28 1945 (ST) Book Review: More Ego

Dec 9 1945 (ST) Record London Stage Year

(Nov 4 1945) (ST) Hollands Empire

(Dec 15 1945) (CSM) New Films in England

(Dec 9 1945) (ST) Films of the Week

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(Dec 16 1945) (ST)

Jan 27 1946 (ST)

Book Reviews: Good Christmas Presents

New York To Have Old Vic Season

(Dec 16 1945) (ST)

(Jan 27 1946) (ST)

Books ofthe Week and Welsh Writers

Books of the Week

(Dec 23 1945) (ST)

(Feb 3 1946) (ST)

Book Reviews: Pictures and Words and Books ofthe Week

Books ofthe Week and Book Review: The Road to Victory

Dec 23 1945 (ST)

(Feb 15 1946) (CSM)

Varied Fare At Theatres

Attlee Blueprints Plea to Workers

Survey of the seasonal offerings

(Feb 16 1946) (CSM)

Bevin Resists Pressure In Foreign Office Reform

Dec 29 1945 (CSM)

Expedients in London Playhouses (Dec 30 1945) (ST)

Feb 16 1946 (CSM)

Books of the Week

A Fox That Likes the Hunt

Dec 30 1945 (ST)

A review of "Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper" by Donald Henderson

Later Theatres Scheme Fails Because of the transport difficulties that playgoers faced

(Feb 17 1946) (ST)

Changes Soon At Foreign Office

Jan 5 1946 (CSM) A Defense ofLondon

(Feb 17 1946) (ST)

Books ofthe Week and Move To End U.S. Pirating Our Books

Comparing the theatre of Kean and Irving with today

(Feb 21 l946)(CSM)

Covent Garden Opens to Ballet, But Soviet Dancers Not There

Jan 6 1946 (ST)

Toy Theatres Again Soon (Jan 10 1946) (CSM)

(Feb 24 l946)(ST)

UNO Delegates Welcomed By King at London Banquet

Book Review: Thackeray's Marriage

(Jan 11 1946)(CSM)

Thackeray Secrets

(Mar3 1946) (ST)

Echoes in Central Hall Make Pantomime of UNO Premiere

Mar 9 1946 (CSM)

New Jewish Theater in London Review of Abraham Goldfaden's "The Two Konny Lemels"

Jan 12 1946 (CSM)

Fantasy and Adventure Back Jan 12 1946 (CSM)

(Mar l 0 1946) (ST)

Book Review: Criticism and Critics

Book Review: On the Spot and Books ofthe Week

Jan l3 1946 (ST)

Mar 16 1946 (CSM)

"The Guinea Pig"

Players' New Home

A review of Warren Chetham-Strode's play

(Jan l3 1946)(ST)

Books of the Week

(Mar 17 1946) (ST)

UK Tourist Target

(Jan 20 1946) (ST)

First List OfBritish Books For Germans

(Mar 17 1946) (ST)

Books of the Week

(Jan 20 1946) (ST)

Book Review: Growing Up and Books ofthe Week

Mar 23 1946 (CSM)

Pollock's Once More Ralph Richardson's scheme to reintroduce toy theatres

Jan 26 1946 (CSM)

In Praise of Griffith Reviews of revivals of "Birth of a Nation", "Intolerance", "Cabinet of Dr Caligari" and "Warning Shadows"

Mar 23 1946 (CSM)

"Fifty-Fifty" Capitalists' Counterblast A play by Larson Brown

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(Mar 24 1946) (ST)

May 5 1946 (ST)

Mar 24 1946 (ST)

Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", Ronald Millar's "Frieda", and "Dutch Family"

Books ofthe Week and Persia s Case

Time Stands Still

Mr Gie/gud sPlans

May 5 1946 (CSM)

(Mar 311946) (ST)

Book Review: A Happy Life and Books of the Week

Here Come the Boys

(Mar 31 1946)(ST)

Jack Hulbert At His Best In New Show

May 11 1946 (CSM)

Trips to France This Summer

(May 12 1946)(ST)

(Apr 6 1946) (CSM)

Books ofthe Week and Aiding the Artist

Mary Pickford Has Only Praise for British On First Visit to England Since the War

May 18 1946 (CSM)

(Apr 6 1946) (CSM)

"Our Town"

Thornton Play From a British Viewpoint

Berlioz on the Screen

(May 19 1946) (ST)

Apr 6 1946 (CSM)

Book Review: Greek Tragedy and Books of the Week

Star of "Make It a Date" Ponders on Garden Produce

May 23 1946 (CSM)

A revue starring Max Wall

Britain "Woos" Political Drama

(Apr 7 1946)(ST)

Book Review: Road to Freedom and Books of the Week

(May 26 1946) (ST)

Apr 14 1946 (ST)

Book Review: Reflections on Life and Books of the Week

"Young Vic" For Children

Jun 8 1946 (CSM)

War and Aftermath

(Apr 14 1946) (ST)

Reviews of "Dutch Family" and Ronald Millar's "Frieda"

Book Review: Three Lives Apr 16 1946 (CSM)

Conversation at Luncheon

(Jun 9 1946) (ST)

A consideration of Othello

21, 000 In 'IWo Columns

Apr 20 1946 (CSM)

(Jun 9 1946) (ST)

Mr Gie/gud Wants A New Play

Books of the Week

An interview with "Britain's greatest Shakespearean actor"

Jun 15 1946 (CSM)

(Apr 20 1946) (CSM) Don 't Laugh, Please

Rattigan

"The Winslow Boy" (Jun 16 1946) (ST)

(Apr 21 1946)(ST)

Books of the Week

Books ofthe Week

Jun 16 1946 (ST)

Apr 27 1946 (CSM)

The Universities: Oxford

Laughing Othello Personation By Frederick Valk Is Novel Valk's Othello is extremely cheery. The Monitor's

The OUDS' production of"The Winter's Tale" (Jun 20 1946) (CSM)

drama critic is now Percy Allen

High Taxes and Literature

(Apr 28 1946) (ST)

Jun 22 1946 (CSM)

Books of the Week May 5 1946 (ST)

'IWo Plays on One Stage W. P. Templeton's two works, "You Won't Need

Arts Theatre Plan

the Halo and "Exercise Bowler"

The Arts Theatre now has two resident playwrights, W. P. Templeton and Christopher Fry

Love in the Press Camp

(May 5 1946) (ST)

Books ofthe Week

Jun 23 1946 (ST) A review of "Love Goes to Press" by Martha Gellhom and Virginia Cowles

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(Jun 23 1946) (ST) Films of the Week

(Sept 1 1946) (ST) Book Reviews: Boswell In Uniform

Jun 29 1946 (CSM) "Nineteenth Hole" New War Play Vivian Connelly's "The Nineteenth Hole of Europe"

Sept 1 1946 (ST) Mr Oliviers Old Vic Plans

(Jun 30 1946) (ST) Films of the Week

Sept 7 1946 (CSM) Herberts Musical Satire Has Gilbertian Flavor "Big Ben"

(Jul3 1946) (CSM) This London

(Sept 8 1946) (ST) Books of the Week

Jul6 1946 (CSM) "Red Roses For Me" as Seen in London By Sean O'Casey

Sept 8 1946 (ST) Other Plays Reviews of"The Eagle Has Two Heads" by Jean Cocteau ("one enormous scream") and Kenneth Home's "Fools Rush In"

Jull3 1946 (CSM) Shakespeare at Oxford "The Winter's Tale" (Jull4 1946) (ST) Books of the Week

(Sept 8 1946) (ST) Premiers War Diary

Jul20 1946 (CSM) "Crime and Punishment" with John Gielgud Rodney Ackland's adaptation of Dostoevsky's work

Sept 14 1946 (CSM) New Play Is Tragedy Of Ireland Robert Collis's "Marrowbone Lane" Sept 15 1946 (ST) A Unique Feat A review of "The Eagle Has Two Heads" by Jean Cocteau (which contains one of the longest stage speeches that Hobson has ever heard); "The Merchant of Venice" in Yiddish; "The Constant Wife" by Somerset Maugham; "The Skin of Our Teeth"; and "Mother of Men"

(Jul20 1946) (CSM) Notes From London (Ju130 1946)(CSM) A Daughters Influence (Aug 3 1946) (CSM) Motion Film Othello Aug 10 1946 (CSM) War News Scooped by Charm A review of "Love Goes to Press" by Miss Martha Gellhom and Miss Virginia Cowles

(Sept 15 1946) (ST) Books of the Week

Aug 17 1946 (CSM) What About It, Miss Bonett? Review of "Mr Beverly Plays God" by Emery Bonett Aug 24 1946 (CSM) Harry Gordon, Who Rejects London Bids The revue "Half-Past Eight"

Sept 1 1946 (ST) "Madame Bovary" A review of this adaptation of Flaubert

Sept 21 1946 (CSM) A Comedy of Marriage Kenneth Home's "Fools Rush In" (Sept 22 1946) (ST) High Aims Of New B. B. C. Programme (Sept 22 1946) (ST) B.B.C. "Still At Caxton Stage"

Aug 25 1946 (ST) Theatre Lights Still Banned

Sept 22 1946 (ST) OhMe, OhMy! A review of Ralph Lynn's "The Love Lottery" (in these early ST reviews, deputising for James Agate, Hobson dispenses with his measured, incisive CSM style in favour of a more grandiloquent mode of expression); Milton's "Comus" and Joyce Dennys's "The Bells Ring"

Aug 31 1946 (CSM) A New Comedy by Benn Levy "Clutterbuck"

Sept 28 1946 (CSM) Cocteau Goes Back to Hugo "The Eagle Has Two Heads"

(Aug 25 1946) (ST) Books ofthe Week Aug 25 1946 (ST) Coward Show to Open Drury Lane

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Nov 10 1946 (ST) There Are Crimes and Crimes Reviews of "There are Crimes and Crimes" by Strindberg and "Treble Trouble"

Sept 29 1946 (ST) Mr Olivier s Lear A review of Olivier's "King Lear" (with Guinness as the Fool); "The Shepherd Show", and "Tangent" by Gilbert Horobin

Nov 16 1946 (CSM) A Maugham Revival "Our Betters"

(Sept 29 1946)(ST) New Films in London

Nov 17 1946 (ST) And Talking of Tightropes Review of "And Talking of Tightropes" and book review of"A Pilgrim's Work"

Oct 5 1946 (CSM) A Shifting Viewpoint Frederick Lonsdale's "But for the Grace of God" Oct 6 1946 (ST) Peace Comes To Peckham Reviews of R. E. Delderfield 's "Peace Comes to Peckham", and "The Amiable Mrs Luke"

Nov 23 1946 (CSM) A Norwegian Play A review of Helga Kroge's "On the Way" (Nov 24 1946) (ST) Book Review: A Portrait of Montgomery

Oct 12 1946 (CSM) A Yiddish Shylock "The Merchant of Venice" (Oct 13 1946) (ST) Book Reviews: At the Theatre

Nov 24 1946 (ST) A Phoenix Too Frequent A review of "A Phoenix Too Frequent" by Christopher Fry

Oct 13 1946 (ST) Great Fooling At "Ice Revue" Review of "On the Way"

(Nov 24 l946)(ST) Editorial: Mrs Speaker? (Nov 24 l946)(ST) Book Reviews: Just Published

Oct 19 1946 (CSM) The Stage in London

Nov 30 1946 (CSM) Economical Mr Field Sid Field's "Piccadilly Hayride"

Oct 20 1946 (ST) Untitled A book review and a review of "Much Ado About Nothing"

Dec l 1946 (ST) Cat Among the Pigeons A review of"Cat Among the Pigeons" by Marie Oxenford

(Oct 20 1946) (ST) Book Review: Testament Oct 26 1946 (CSM) Poetic Drama at the Mercury Reviews of "The Love Lottery" and Gilbert Horobin's "Tangent" Oct 27 1946 (ST) "The Turn of the Screw" A review of this adaptation of Henry James's story, and "The Forgotten Factor" Oct 27 1946 (ST) "First Play By Young Vic" (Nov 5 1946) (CSM) And the Swallows

(Dec 1 1946)(ST) Book Reviews: Christmas Gift Books Dec l 1946 (ST) Repertory at Oxford Focus on the work of the Oxford Playhouse Dec 7 1946 (CSM) New Theater Has Most ofLondon Plays Focus on the work of the New Theatre, Oxford Dec 7 1946 (CSM) Book Review: Theater

Nov 5 1946 (CSM) "Policeman sLot Is Not ... "

Dec 8 1946 (ST) High Horse Reviews of Gerald Tyrell's "High Horse" and George Lillo's "Fatal Curiosity"

Nov 9 1946 (CSM) Relations Between Britain and U.S. Aired In Comedy R. E. Delderfield's "Peace Comes To Peckham"

Dec 8 1946 (ST) Repertory At The Other Stratford Focus on the work of the Theatre Royal Stratford East and a review of"Milestones" 129

Dec 14 1946 (CSM) The Old Vic s "Cyrano" A poorly translated production of Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" Dec 15 1946 (ST) Book Review: Two Years' Playgoing Review of Agate's "The Contemporary Theatre: 1944--45" (Dec 15 l946)(ST) Book Reviews: In a Nutshell

Jan 24 1947 (RT) Laughter, Tears- or Both Discussion of BBC's production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya": "A Chekhov play is an orchestra without a soloist". There is never a dominating character Jan 25 1947 (CSM) Coward Show Reopens Drury Lane "Pacific 1860"

Dec 21 1946 (CSM) Repertory Theaters Increase In Britain

Jan 26 1947 (ST) The Lake of the Swans A play about Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rubinstein

Dec 22 1946 (ST) Theatres For The Holidays A review of the seasonal pantomimes

Feb 1 1947 (CSM) A Maugham Revival in London "Lady Frederick"

(Dec 22 1946) (ST) Book Reviews: Just in Time for the Season

Feb 8 1947 (CSM) "The Man from the Ministry" By Madeline Bingham

Dec 28 1946 (CSM) When Old Vic Loses Olivier He is unable to perform on the stage during 1947 owing to film commitments Dec 29 1946 (ST) The Man from the Ministry Reviews of "The Man from the Ministry" and "Cinderella" Jan41947 (CSM) Women ofJames Portrayed

Feb 9 1947 (ST) Well Met by Moonlight Reviews of "Galway Handicap", "IU Met By Moonlight" by Mr MacLiamm6ir, starring Eithne Dunne ("an actress of quality"), the farce "She Wanted a Cream Front Door" and T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral": " ... I can't deny that it is full of intellectual ingenuities and nice turns of theological thought. No poetic drama of our time is more worthy of respect. And as far as I am concerned, that finishes it. The very last quality for which I look in a poem is respectability: passion, music, abandon, magic, the divine afflatus, what you will: but respectability? No. Either poetry intoxicates, or it is nothing. In all this elaborate ritual I found not a dram, a drain, a fluid ounce of aesthetic inebriety. It is as sober as a judge, about as inspired as the Woolsack"

Jan 5 1947 (ST) The Master Builder By Ibsen: "I find this play, like the universe and the way of an eagle in the air, incomprehensible". He does not understand "why Hilda Wangel, having urged her Master Builder to the top of his tower, apparently cannot see when he falls, though he is dashed to pieces before her eyes"; and whether "Hilda is real, or only an Feb 14 1947 (CSM) aspect of Solness 's personality, with its passion- • Arts Council Takes a Bow ate longing for youth, and its insane fear of it" Feb 15 1947 (CSM) Jan111947(CSM) "The Master Builder" The Old Vic Takes Steps Feb 16 1947 (ST) Jan 18 1947 (CSM) Dublin Players to Act in US. "Talking of Tightropes" Feb 16 1947 (ST) Review of this play by Herbert Sidon, adapted Success from the radio drama by Caryl Brahms and Reviews of "Hattie Stowe" by Ian Hay (Hobson S. J. Simon subscribes to Browning's thought, refined in cricketing terms, that it is "worse to score a Jan 19 1947 (ST) Smith in Arcady laborious century by careful singles than to get A "romp" by N. C. Hunter, with Kynaston a duck through gloriously attempting to hit the Reeves: "if drunk one must get, it should be in ball over the pavilion clock"); "Dr Brent's Household" by Edward Percy; Jean Cocteau's "The the manner of Sir Geoffrey"

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Eagle Has Two Heads"; and "Now Barabbas ... " by William Douglas Home - " ... in any five minutes of it there is more true feeling, there is more poetry, than in all M. Cocteau's thundering rhetoric. I hope to return to it next week" Feb 21 1947 (CSM) "Smith in Arcady" Review of this play Feb 23 194 7 (ST) Is This Barabbas? "Now Barabbas ... " by William Douglas Home. "It is, despite its faults, too rich both in promise and achievement, to be dismissed ... Mr Douglas Home finds in his murderers, shoplifters, erring schoolmasters, bigamists, perverts and swindlers more virtue than you would get in a normal bench of bishops". Hobson doesn't "believe a word of it", since "I hold the quaint notion that virtue on the whole, is oftener found in the virtuous than the vicious", and he disapproves of the "interpretation of human nature", but he particularly likes "the scene in which young Tufnell, condemned to death for the murder of a policeman, waits for the news of the result of his appeal." It is a play that, "though it excuses too much, understands a great deal; it is amusing and profoundly touching. I beg you to see it". Reviews of "In the Beginning", "Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas" and "The Thing Happens", the first instalments of "Back to Methuselah" by Shaw, "the greatest living dramatist" - but the work is not "shaping into a masterpiece". The producer, Noel William, "has schooled his cast to speak with a precise articulation that suggests the laws of the Medes and Persians being recited by a collection of conscientious foreigners". + "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" Mar 1 1947 (CSM) Revival of "Caste" a London Event By Tom Robertson Mar21947(ST) A Distant Comet Reviews of "The Beautiful People" by William Saroyan: a poetic drama that is written in prose and acceptable because "wherever the form beauty, arrangement, rhythm of words release ~ feeling beyond the actual the words themselves the spirit is likely to be present"; of "Th~ Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman" by Shaw and of George Formby at the Palladium Mar 8 1947 (CSM) "Hungry Hill" Filmed

Mar 9 1947 (ST) And Now, Thunder Webster's "The White Devil", demonstrating Hobson's delight in small roles: "Flamineo has murdered his brother, and his mother, repenting her sudden anger, offers to the assembled lords and ruffians who compose the play's cast an e~planation that lets him out. Then, treading on silence, a page whom I had not noticed before and was not to notice again, quietly says thes~ five words: "This is not true, Madam." That is all. As this play counts noise it is hardly a whisper. Am I right in thinking that the name of the actor who plays the page is not even mentioned in the programme? Yet for me it was the most striking moment in a performance in which such moments are not few". (Page later named as Patrick Macnee, 23/3/47). Other plays mentioned include "Caviar to the General" "Truant in Park Lane" by James Parish, "No~ Barabbas ... " and "Romany Love" (Hobson detects "a genuine revival of musical comedy" here, which he considered "one of the war's spiritual casualties") Mar 15 1947 (CSM) Mr Speaight as Becket in Eliot s Play "Murder in the Cathedral" Mar 16 1947 (ST) Elegance "Romany Love" gives him "more hope for the future of the musical comedy in England than anything I have seen for a long time". The serious theatre has an "abundance of new talent" (Ustinov, Burden, Ronald Millar, Isabel Dean, the director Peter Ashmore, the set builder Antony Holland) and "familiar talent" has developed, e.g. Olivier. The lighter stage has Judy Campbell and Hermione Gingold, but musical comedy is a "parody of its former self" + review of "The Anonymous Lover" by Vernon Sylvaine Mar 22 1947 (CSM) "Hattie Stowe " By Ian Hay Mar 23 1947 (ST) Metabiology Reviews of Shaw's "Back to Methuselah" ("nothing but the intellect remains, untramelled by emotions, in the realm of pure thought"; "to argue the hind leg off a dog isn't the same thing as to convince him"; "the master of paradox gives the impression of being paradox-trapped"; "Mr Shaw is indeed like Macbeth, declaring in terms of undying loveliness that nowhere in life

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is there any loveliness at all") + "Peace Comes to Peckham" Mar 29 1947 (CSM) Poetic Drama Promoted By E. M. Browne The foundation of the Poet's Theatre Guild and a plea for poetic drama

May 3 1947 (CSM) "Candida" Reassessed in London By Shaw May 4 1947 (ST) "The Red Mill" Review of this and "Forty-Ninth State" May 8 1947 (TL) Critic On The Hearth Hobson's first monthly article as TV Critic for "The Listener"

Mar 30 1947 (ST) On Which Side? A discussion of the greatest stage Othellos; reviews of A. R. Rawlinson's melodrama, "Birthmark" and Shaw's "Candida" -his best play?

May 10 1947 (CSM) "Call Home The Heart" In London By Clemence Dane

Apr 5 1947 (CSM) Irish Invasion ofLondon Apr 6 1947 (ST) !ago's Fault? Is the part of Othello "beyond the compass of an actor?", in depth discussion + reviews of "The Animal Kingdom", "Waifs That Stray" and H. C. G. Steven's "Immortal Garden"

May ll 1947 (ST) Less Than Kind (May 17 1947)(CSM) Television As Seen by British Eyes

Apr 12 1947 (CSM) Robert Helpmann As Actor

May 18 1947 (ST) Oak Leaves and Lavender Reviews of this play by O'Casey, and "Give me the Sun"

Apr 12 1947 (CSM) Return of the Bard

May 24 1947 (CSM) "Oklahoma!" As Londoners See It

Apr l3 1947 (ST) Call Home the Heart Review of this play and Donald Wolfit's "Volpone", "Power Without Glory" and Tommy Trinder's revue "Here, There and Everywhere"

(May 25 1947 James Agate's Last Sunday Times Article, "Catching Up- II")

Apr 19 1947 (CSM) "Romany Love " in London By Victor Herbert Apr 20 1947 (ST) The Play's the Thing Review of this play, Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" and the Crazy Gang revue, "Together Again" Apr 21 1947 (CSM) London to Radiocast "Old Vic" Play to Mark Shakespeare's Birthday Apr 24 1947 (BBC Radio Broadcast) The Critic on the Air Discusses the radio productions of "Edward II" and "Richard III" Apr 26 1947 (CSM) "Birthmark" Poses Puzzle for Londoners By A. R. Rawlinson Apr 27 1947 (ST) 1066 and All That Review of this play and "The King of Rome"

May 25 1947 (ST) "Dark Emmanuel" Reviews of Gordon Hoile's "Dark Emmanuel", about a fascist plot to atomise London, and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" May 31 1947 (CSM) "Oak Leaves and Lavender" Jun 1 1947 (ST) The Round Peg Reviews of "Edward, My Son" by Robert Morley and Noel Langley ("a very accomplished piece of playwriting"), "The Bird-Seller" and Reginald Beckwith's "Boys in Brown" Jun 5 1947 (TL) Critic on the Hearth Jun 7 1947 (CSM) "Bless the Bride" in London Jun 8 1947 (ST) Not For Me, Thank You Reviews of J. B. Priestley's "Ever Since Paradise" (a "bad and boring play", "I think it verbose and pretentious. I think the first night audience, which cheered itself black in the face, and for whose opinion I don't give a Shinwell's hoot,

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ness interesting are amongst the most difficult things either actor or dramatist can attempt"), and "Noose"

was wrong", "I consider this author one of the three greatest living dramatists"- but not here!), "Off the Record" by Ian Hay and Stephen KingHall, "Life With Father" and "Angel''

Jun 28 1947 (CSM)

Jun 8 1947 (ST)

"Edward, My Son"

James Agate: An Appreciation

Review

Agate wrote over 1200 articles; "any competent critic can discuss a play, but Agate could perpetuate a player. That is a far harder thing to do. The one can be a