2 FEBRUARY 1951, page 13

James Bridie : An Appreciation

SOME plays arc so completely over the first-night audience's heads that they rank •as failures. Marriage Is No Joke is one of them. Because I .enjoyed the humour which irked the......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE 'the Gay Invalid." (Garrick.) FROM a snowbound, lamplit Paris street in the eighteenth century, from the tale of an ingenuous hypochondriac pauperised by apothe- caries,......