3 AUGUST 1912, Page 25

From Theatre to Music - Hall. By W. R. Titterton. (Stephen Swift.

3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Titterton's book professes to prove that the future hope of our dramatic art lies, not in the regular theatre, flat in the musio-halL He marshals his evidence in an imposing array of chapters, designed to show how the fatal irruption of the einakier, the ballet, the pantomime, the cinema, and a host of ether enemies are compassing the ruin of the "legitimate." We are not convinced by his arguments any more than by his plea for the artistic excellence of the music-halls. But his book gives him an opportunity for a great deal of highly coloured, but still amusing, criticism, especially of the music-hall stars whom he so deeply admires.