Play

A BELL FOR ADANO THE outs,anding quality of Mr. John Hersey's 'love, cif war, peasants and that uncommon animal. a true democrat, was its burning sincerity. The young reporter, white-hot front the embeetled fields ot Sicily, suddenly aware that there Were Nazis " it the liberating armies wrote straight from his heat t. The little people ot Italy appeared exactly as he saw them. Not unnaturally when they pass through another process on screen and stage they are apt to become more than a trifle distorted. There lay the weakness of, the film and therein lies the weakness of the play. But the latter-is still very good theatre. Mr. Frederick Valk makes a likeable, and believable. anarchist of Thornasino the fisherman who does not like men of authority "— and who will blame bin, ? Macdonald Park's Giuseppe from Chicago runs him a close second.—(Phoenix.) W. J. I FIT FOR HEROES AFTER a rathe tame start this comedy of moods and manners develops into a lively bit ot entertainment with Irene Vanbrugh and Raymond Lovel as a (voluntarily) dispossessed pee and peeress They go to live in a Portal and it is not surprising that the place is a bit cramped, especially when the Burma-campaign majorson ais girl friend the daughter and het " new ideal " young man come to stay The acting and the elocution (the word as applied to the West End is almost obsolete now) are in the first flight. Olaf Ponies, gives a brilliant partrait of the new deal " wind-bag and some might even say that scales were a bit unjustly tipped against his kind. But it's all grand fun and Mr. Anthony Hawire! can chalk up another success in his enterprising and courageous experiment.--(Embasey. Swiss Cottage.)