... Dark. I must believe that Martha Raye's vocal and physical energy, as heard and seen in a musical battle of saxophones and machine- guns entitled Public Melody No. i, will have its host of admirers; but Jack Benny's skirmishes with threatening bankruptcy ...

... prevent considerable individuality in detail. We reem to be coming to something better with our choruses and ballets than the machine-like gesture in combination which allows the units no personality in character at all. Really ad mirable as a spectacle, The ...

... of the great ones are resting from racing just now, not omitting Frank Wootton. I have not heard that he has been seen in a bath chair on the front at Brighton or Bournemouth, but it is usual to expect that one who has been compelled to take a rest will ...

... heavenly choir. But and this is one of the secrets of its charm there are no high lights in the book Lady Horner's survey bathes the landscape of the past in a warm, golden light that strikes alike on tree and flower, on tower and cottage. Her children's ...

... important is the minimizing of the landing on V Beach of the 29th Division, when apparently all that had to be faced was one machine-gun. Why not have shown us the Turkish preparations A still greater fault is the message which this film is supposed to tell ...

... it is an admirable film, and small boys should be taken to see it before they depart for the seaside. Roland Young, taking a bath in a barrel, surprised by the natives whilst clad only in his shirt and his monocle, and acquiring god-like status in their ...

... peace-time institution the Civil Service is to be admired and respected on many counts; but that in a war the bureau cratic machine is supposed to creak and groan and not stand up too well or too willingly to the administrative shocks which swift improvisation ...

... dling, while a special team, called the Plaza- ii (and Bathing) Girls, dance with a precision that n> as effective and absolute as though they were unmixed family of Plaza girls, filler gu s, Bathing Girls. The Actor Who Will Not Grow Up in his Only Two ...

... for replacements. But in the end the water would always get through, even to the front line, where he once fixed up shower-baths for some surprised and grateful Australian snipers in the most advanced positions. Major Rainier has the greatest admira tion ...

... way with the pro fessions, not only of crib-cracking but of pocket-picking, card-sharping, street- walking, rigging, fruit-machines, dice-loading and smash-and-grab. Two if the professional fraternity, a prostitute and a burglar who is looking after her ...

... LITERARY LOUNGER, By L. P. HARTLEY. RED STRANGERS is not, as the title suggests it might be, a novel dealing with the machinations of Bolshevik agents in England. The strangers in question are them selves Englishmen and Empire-builders. The first to ...

... attractive costume of the Westerner is designed in a purely utilitarian sense. Some of the coloured slides placed in the machine, though rather crude, are made entertaining by an attached story. The actual films are extremely interesting, parti cularly ...