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Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. (o.u.d.s., Oxford...

all in favour of a Madariagan reading of the principal part, and this is what, in a remarkably workmanlike production—which suddenly faltered and collapsed right at the end—Mr.......

The Vortex. By Noel Coward. (lyric, Hammersmith).

THE 'twenties, per se, are not so very amusing ; Mr. Coward, Mr. Scott Fitzgerald and Mr. Evelyn Waugh, per se, are. Mr. Michael MacOwan, in his present production of Mr.......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE The Deep Blue Sea. By Terence Rattigan. (Duchess.) THE trouble with Hester Collyer is irresponsibility, aggravated by inexperience. Almost everything she does is......