4 AUGUST 1928, Page 23

The shepherdesses -are rather like chorus-girls in Robin Hood (Heinemann,

5s.), the play Mr. J. C. Squire has written in collaboration with Miss Joan R. Young. None the less it is a smooth and bright piece of artificial comedy ; and the touches of modern satire that it contains make it still more entertaining. It has none of the richness or the fresh-air phantasy of Peacock's Maid Marian : we were disappointed, too, to find that it was not scattered over with lyrics and pot-songs. It is a pleasant trifle, however, and it should play well.