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A Bit Of What You Fancy

The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660. By V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. (Methuen. 18s.) IT was Stephen Leacock who advised Mr. Clinton-Baddeley (after he had......

A New Play By Chekhov

Don Juan (in the Russian Manner). By Anton Chekhov. English version by Basil Ashmore. Preface by Desmond MacCarthy. (Peter Nevill. 10s. 6d.) THE late Sir Desmond MacCarthy's......