14 NOVEMBER 1952, page 26

Fiction

ON the principle that one should set a thief to catch a thief, there might perhaps be more promising candidates for the portrayal of Napoleon Buonaparte than Sir Alan Herbert. A......

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Men Of The Theatre

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