44 The Four Men."
IN connection with the Sussex Festival Lord Duncannon has adapted Hilaire Belloc's farrago, The Four Men, with music by David Ponsonby, as a drama for presentation at many Sussex centres. The first night at Chichester was a great success ; and Ian Wallace as the Sailor led half the nobility of the county in Mr. Belloc's rousing choruses. Surely no parcel of soil has ever been so confidently celebrated. Mr. Wallace's voice must have been clearly heard in Ffayling Island, for which—Robert Speaight as Myself remarked—" there shall be especial woe." W. E. Holloway's Grizzlebeard and John Leather's Poet were respectively as grizzled and as vague as anyone could wish, and the whole production should
put the men of Sus,sex in fine Festival spirits. K.H.
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