19 MAY 1950, page 30

Pleasures Of The Theatre

THE dangers of versatility are well-known to authors as they are to other artists. The public likes to have its painters and actors and writers neatly docketed so that it may......

Invisible Ink

Secret Service Unmasked. By Tristan Busch. (Hutchinson. 26s.) THE author of this book served in the censorship branch of the Austrian General Staff during the First World War,......

The Vulgar Tongue

A Fro . ; on Ice, and Other Curious Expressions. By C. E. Funk. (Murray. los. 6d.) MR. PARTRIDGE has won for himself an impregnable eminence in the world of words, or perhaps......