... waters of an artificial lake. The other was like the ocean changeful, restless, undisciplined, and uncertain, but alive, oh, very much alive I felt certain that ten years hence this solitary woman would be, as it were, exactly as she is to-day a little ...

... The Art of Artfulness IF Shakespeare were alive to-day he would probably be writing to the papers to say that all the world's a Camouflage, and all the men and women merely fakirs. Indeed, are there not some who claim that Shakespeare him self s merelv ...

... ENTERTAINMENTS a la CARTE By ULAN HOT! A Great Big Stage Keeps Turning A MECHANICALLY-MINDED art critic might be the best person to write an appreciation of The Golden Toy. The humans who act in it dwindle into tininess before vast pieces of scenery, ...

... THE LONDON STAGE By HERBERT FARJEON The Breadwinner A traveller in Romance The fustian of Knave and Quean, 1 4-a-penny jokes in Leave it to Psmith and a new regime at the Strand MR. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S new comedy at the Vaudeville Theatre is full of stuff ...

... duced by the Stage Society, so I wrote at some length of The Lady with a Lamp when it was privately pro duced at the Arts Theatre. Sufficient, then, in a busy week to recommend a visit to the Garrick, where Miss Evans and Miss Ffrangcon-Davies may now be seen ...

... improvement on the original. This is a score for the stage and I think it is pretty safe to predict that so long as the talkie men continue to conceive their pro ductions in terms of the stage, the stage will always be able to go one better. There is more ...

... theatre takes itself, as usual, sentimentally rather than seriously. Not even the stage-door-hangers of White- chapel are more sentimental about stage folk than are stage folk themselves. It is therefore not surprising to find Messrs. Arthur Hopkins and ...

... of The Taming of the Shrew may be judged. In the first place it may be judged on what may be called its own merits that is to say, as a work of art designed to appeal to the millions who have never seen the play on the stage and have never ...

... These brothers are for ever talking, like prigs, of playing the game, and sticking together, and keeping the rules, and doing the gentlemanly thing. They keep on addressing each other as stout fellow. And before long this spiritual stoutness grew very wearisome ...

... week. Man agements seem to be keeping one eye cocked on talkie rights. If a poor play runs for a week and is then bought for the talkies it is good business even if it be bad art. Several of the new plays were certainly bad art. On the other hand, the possibility ...

... older and more dignified school that takes its acting seriously that insists on keeping itself on one side of the foot lights and the audience on the other that believes in an art of the theatre appealing to the eye as well as to the ear. The scurrying workman ...

... genius in Mr. Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord, at the St. Martin's Theatre, both on and off the stage. Here is mother-love un- rl rpn mpH of in our ourrent, stage matriology the Barrie convention. Com pare it with Little Mary, for instance. The tender, unselfish ...