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...Last season English Playwright J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways flopped badly in Manhattan; this season his I Have Been Here Before flopped worse. Priestley wrote in an English magazine last week: "I have always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of menace in New York, as if something . . . were plotting against the soul...
...DOOMSDAY MEN-J. B. Priestley -Harper...
...Midnight on the Desert, an account of his stay in Arizona in 1936, Author Priestley presented one of the most excited and semi-mystical rhapsodies on that section that has appeared since English writers, with strange literary consequences, started wintering in the U. S. Southwest. Even the boldest guess could not have anticipated the strange desert influence that breathes from The Doomsday Men- a lively mixture of adventure, mystery and improbabilities, free of literary significance but heavily weighted with a moral regarding the curse of social pessimism...
...into best-selling mothhood is Howard Spring of the London Evening Standard, whose "Book of the Month" choice is a lively competitor of the organized book clubs. With publication last month of My Son, My Son!, plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed...
...Take It With You (last year's Pulitzer Prize comedy), and the lukewarm reception of several English comedies in Manhattan, drama authorities have been cogitating once again the old question: What is the difference between English and American humor? British fun, according to British Authorities J. B. Priestley and Charles Morgan, is more subdued; Yankee fun is more roistering. By all the rules, Bachelor Born, which was a hit in London (under the title The Housemaster), should have displeased last week's Manhattan audiences. It should also have been subdued. But it did please the audiences...