"And This Was Odd." By Kenneth Horne. (Criterion.) IN Mr.
Kenneth Home's new comedy an old lady acquires the power of divorcing her spirit from her body almost at will, and uses it to solve her children's problems. Since the gauze-clad spirit is both inaudible and invisible to everyone else on stage, this looks to me like the only variation on the theme of comic ghosthood which could not conceivably be funny. However, Miss Avice Landone and Mr. Raymond Huntley are there, playing a dull married couple with mordant accuracy, and Miss Mary Jerrold, as Grandma, makes herself graciously at home.
Everyone in the play refers to Grandma by the whimsical nick- name " Mopsie." I have a sneaking feeling that Mr. Home's original title for his piece might, all too easily, have been A Job for itiopsie.
KENNETH TYNAN.
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