WOLF MANKOWITZ’S latest book, Old Soldiers Never Die, finally establishes him as something more, considerably more, than a facile genre writer with promise. In it, his steadily widening powers of ...

The friendship between two men in London’s Jewish East End forms the heart of “The Bespoke Overcoat,” now playing at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice. The 1953 play was written by Wolf Mankowitz ...

OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE (224 pp.) —Wolf Mankowih— Atlantic-Little, Brown ($3.50). We are Kitchener’s Army The Army of the Free We cannot shoot, we cannot fight What bloody use are we? Thus with proud ...

They had spent the evening among sharpies and shills and slick-talking swindlers dedicated to the ancient shopkeeper’s art of conning the customer. But London’s theater critics were delighted. When it ...

Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy ...

A tidy morality tale focusing on galloping commercialism and its disruption of old world ethics and values, The Bespoke Overcoat is one of Wolf Mankowitz’s best-known plays, having won an Academy ...

Martin Shaban, 21-year-old son of South African Jewish communal leader Abel Shaban, has been signed for an important feature role in a new film to be shot in South Africa, it was announced here today.