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Unfortunate Major A Lucky Author

Two Works Picked By The Book Society

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"THE WINTER'S TALE" FOR THE STAGE CHANGE" IS

Charles B. Cochran Plans Production.

.....

ANOTHER OF. COWARD'S.

produced for a run in London. at the Savoy, in September, 1923, with Mr. Henry Ainley as Leontes, the late Mr. Dennis Nellson-Terry as Florizel, and Miss Lillah McCarthy aa Hermione.

ETONS

OF LIFE

In time for the match at Lord's

Mr. Charles B: Cochran is plan-

"Words And Music."

to-day there appears a review of [ning a production of "The, Winter's

Rehearsals have been completed Eton during the last hundred years Tale" this autumn, with costumes and scenery by Mr. Oliver Messel, for Mr. Noel Coward's new revue, who was responsible for the de- "Words and Music," which is to be called "Change.". published at signs for "Helen." "No definite presented in Manchester and Lon- "Its objects," the editors state, “ arrangements have been made with don. The episodes are all modern, to give the Etoäjäns of 1932 some.

me and there is to be a cast of thirty idea of the greathess and strange- Mr. Megael," he told

but I wrote making him principals with a chorus of thirty.

feels entitled to give them matter an offer. from that older book of which most of them have never even heard. Nevertheless, I think it will not do.

[By J.B. Priestly.]

Major Yeats-Brown was not all ways fortunate as a soldier-as we abail presently see-but he has been very lucky as an author. Two years ago, his Bengal Lancer"

Turkish Plots.

At Christmas he intends to stage

To others

of anecdotal articles. by a die-

Some time this year Mr. Cochraness of their heritage." "I have just returned from intende to make a visit to America, will certainly provide some clue short holiday in Dieppe," Mr. but although he has had several to the unique attraction of Eton.

1. was offers he has made no plans for pro- The review consists of a series Cochran said, "and while

"Before away I read The Winter's Tale'ductions in New York. He ought to have persuaded his again. It has always been one of I make any decisions I want to look tinguished band of Old Etonians-- publisher-who would certainly my favourite comedies, and I reg. round and see what is happenins | General to Earl of Cavan, Mr. Des- mond MacCarthy, the Hon J. J. was chosen by the Book Society have agreed-to reprint that older flised how admirably it quited the there," he said.

Astor, Mr. Maurice Baring, and the and by this time must have reached book, possibly after a thorough re- genius-of Mr. Measel. I expect to a very large sale indeed.. Now his vision. Then if his interest in produce the play first at the Opera another musical play, possibly "The Marquis of Donegall among others new book, "Golden Horn," has been Turkey had not evaporated, he House, Manchester, then in Glas. Brigands," with a new book by Mr. dealing with Eton life and per- A. P. Herbert, or in another Ofen-sonalities. It has been brought could have given us a separate gow, and later in London." chosen by the Book Society. *He

lastbach operetta: volume on recent Turkish history. is, I think, the only author who But this present book is described figures twice among this society's on the jacket as "Plot and Counter- choides. Does he deserve this plot in Turkey, 1908-1918, as seen from the inside by a prisoner of honour?

war."

It is impossible not to compare And I maintain that this is a the two books. Is "Golden Horn" very inaccurate description. The

Thave declared that it is.

I wish the author well, I feel that it would be" a crime to leave him

with the idea that his new book is another "Bengal Lancer." [distinctly inferior.

"Bengal Laneer" seemed to me

"The Winter's Tale" was

"The

Captain's Table" Is One Of Author's Annual Books

into being by the efforts of present members of Eton, and is admirably printed and illustrated.

To those who ask, Have there been major changes during the last hundred years this delightful com- pilation supplies the answer. The brought up properly he'd be little things alter perpetually no fighting for five dollars. I'm longer does the Etonian go up his benefactor. If you only town," or drink "ades", at Littre" knew the tricks of this trade. Brown's on his return, or personal- Who told him when he shouldly tarve his name in Upper School. win and when he should lose? But the big things remain the same, Me. Who fixed it so that he should win when he had to? Me. Who kept him off the women and Me.

Who made his contracts and led him on and built him up, and got him his publicity? · Me. We're the fellows who do it all. He's just a tool."

as good as "Bengal Lancer"? The first third describes plots and coun- If one spoke of Mr. Huddleston's answer is: Certainly not. I cannot ter-plots in Turkey, but the author annual book it might be an in- was not there; he is simply writing justice, perhaps, on the side of understand those reviewers who history of a kind. The remaining under-statement. He has regaled Because two-thirds only deal with the au- us in some thirty volumes on almost thor's own plots to escape and every aspect of national character not with the elaborations of in regard to England, France, and Turkish war politics. Whether the United States and there is no regarded, then, as history, or auto-reason why he should not keep as

kept him down to weight? It is biography, the book is unsatisfac-entertained on some such lines until

tory, and is not quite what it is the end.

This time, however, he has taken supposed to be.

All this, of course, does not affect the broad Atlantic into his pur to have un almost magical charm. the book's quality simply as so view, and endeavoured to give us I still cannot understand how cer-much good reading matter. The the social stir and movement of a

This ambition to write up a voy- tain publishers came to refuse the writing is as vivid as ever, and the big Transatlantic liner in full play.

writer's odd personality is there, In A welter of miscellaneous age round a ship must have occur manuscript. (As they did to He is still ready to break off at any character such as one might expect red to many a writer, and any such their subsequent chagrin.) To place in the narrative to mention there is only one episode, and this experiment will always have begin with, the early chapters the curious exercises he learned is of the Artemus Ward descrip-model-old-fashioned, may be, in plucked Indian Army life out of the among the Indian mystics, so that tion, for a Polish woman in the De Maistre's "Voyage Autour de one might say that the colon is al steerage increases the census by ama Chambre." Unfortunately, his morass of dull bad prose into which most his favourite stop. He is a it had been plunged for years, and very frank writer, and as the ad- unit, and makes that hapless waif sensibility is what Mr. Huddleston the centre of universal interest. lacks.. He has the glitter of the made is a fresh and vivid again. ventures of a prisoner of war in the But there is plenty of contrast in salon and the restaurant, without Near East provide a chronicler with acute juxtaposition. Even the the glow and twilight of the river- Then there was something fascinat-great opportunities for frankness, note of worldly trony finds expres- side. So when we expect romance, ing about the writer himself, with the very squeamish reader had bet sion in the mouth of a pugilista we get a bookful of rococo vivacity, His odd mixture of the cavalry sub-ter be careful.

manager, who winds up his tirade and, instead of a fascinating: altern and the born mystic, polo and

Actually, I must confess, there with an outburst that may stand as "movie," the result is only a certain gusto in the way in which an apologue on the emptiness of "talkie” after all Yoga, pig-sticking and deep-breath-he records some details of filth and fame:"

There are some-

ing exercises. He was a genuine horror, and, as I admire the au- character of a very rum English thor, I wish that. gusta were not kind-revealing himself very frank-there. And I shall be terribly dia- ly in excellent descriptive

appointed if he does not soon give

prose,

I feel it will be many a year before us a better book thận. "Golden

people have done with the "Bengal Lancer." I should like to read it) all over again, this very night:

Not A Dull Book.

Horn.".

"Victorian Atmosphere.

There are many small country towns near the South Coast that. keep, in spite, of, having their fair On the other hand, I feel sure share of cars, motor-coaches, petrol shall not want to read "Golden stations, cinemas, and soda-foun- Horn" again. It is not a bad book, tains, more than a trace of a. Vie- and it is certainly not a dull one. torian atmosphere. I think that But, judging it by the standard the Mr. Frank Swinnerton, having author himself would prefer, I can-looked at one of these towns and not call it a good one. It is well having made up his mind to write worth reading, but I cannot help a novel about it, determined that feeling that it would have been the tale should be cast in a Victor- better, for Major Yeats-Brown, for lan mould.

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the proud author of "Bengal Len- Not only should it have charge- cer, if he had, not written this ters, heroic, villainous, comfe, ob- new book.

served and described in the old- The shape of it is awkward. The fashioned way; not only should it| first third is not autobiography atĮ have a love story with a good re- all, but an account of the growth of gulation happy ending: but it the Young Turks, or, if you will, a should also have a definite plot, of political history of Turkey from a sound 1860-1880 vintage, with 1908 to 1914. Much of it is pre-lost wills in it. The result is a sented in a way I rather dislike, in novel of our time that suggesta a that ultradramatic and detailed pastiche of the later Victorian manner which compels the his-novel. like one of Trollope's minor torian to give you the intimate ac- fictions,

tions and thoughts of personages he Naturally, a great deal of it could never knew. Thus, we begin by only have been written, this year, finding ourselves in a small private and Mr. Swinnerton still retains his apartment with the Sultan Abdul own neat, efficient, rather dry man- Hamid. But the scene that follows ner, of which the following is fair- cannot be history, and its author la lý typical: not offering us a novel. True, the stuff is sufficiently vivid and drama- tlo, but nevertheless it is a fake.

So much for the first third. After" that, and for the remainder of the book, we get autobiography, for the author, who was an Air Force ob- server, was taken prisoner in Irak by the Turks. He describes his life in various prisons" and his at-} tempts to escape, and throughout this part of the book he has made considerable. we of matter already in print. Just after the war, he wrote a little book describing his adventures as a prisoner of the | Turks. This book had a very small. sale, and so he felt justißed in using

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