20 FEBRUARY 1932, Page 30

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THE MANOR HOUSE. By Netta Syrett. (Geoffrey Bles:

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true, has a familiar look ; but Miss Spat conducts hint through an ingenious maze of melodramatic complications; which make a brisk, 'if Unconvincing, story.