16 APRIL 1954, page 27

• The Pompadour

• Avec la Pompadour, • Faut toujours porter d'amour. • Avec la Dubarry Faut toujours parler du prlx. . . . • and all the ladies had two lines each. It is a pity that royal......

A Novel Russian

Turgenev: A Life. By David Magarshack. (Faber. 25s.) It was, in many ways, an eventful enough life, though no man of irhagination bore more passively the extremes of emotional......

Definitely Ensa

t „ ERE was not much argument about it during the war—visits to le 0 Ps by performers of one sort or another, especially by girl r e cteers, were a good thing. It could be......