3 DECEMBER 1921, Page 16

[An attractive little play which contrives to be agreeably sentimental

without being " soppy."]

LYRIC.—Welcome Stranger.. .. 8.30-2.30

[An amusing comedy about a well-meaning Jew whose motives are entirely misunderstood by the suspicious Christians among whom he finds himself.]

ALHAMBRA.—The Sleeping Princess .. .. 8.30-2.30

[3131. Diaghlleff and Bakst in a paradisiacal version of a fairy pantomime.]

COURT.—Heatibreak House • • .. 8.0--2.15 [Mr. Shaw's "Fantasia from the Russian," in its wit and comparative detachment, is curiously unlike the Chekov play noticed at length above. It is a pity the critics who find Mr. Shaw " queer " cannot be Oven a course of compulsory Chekov.]