... The Cinema A Paris Idol By JAMES AGATE. CURIOUSER and curiouser, said Alice in some connection or other. I can never stop wondering what that heavenly young woman would have said if she had had leisure to inspect the films, which, as time goes on, become funnier and funnier in a strictly sub conscious way. The other evening I fought my own way into a seat at the Plaza during an exordium by ...

... The Cinema A Question for the Future By JAMES AGATE THE cinema world is wildly excited by something called the wide film. To many of us it has seemed that the present film, though not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door, served all reasonable needs. Then came the talkies, bringing in their train the need for a larger area of sound-track, the desire to remedy the curtailment of the ...

... The Cinema The Return of Kismet By JAMLES AGATE IF I had not been in an exceptionally good temper the other afternoon I think I must have walked out of the Leicester Square Theatre. This for two reasons. To begin with, for an eternity of, say some three minutes, the manager could not be found. Per haps I may remark here that when I go to the cinema for fun, which is often, nothing will induce ...

... THE CINEMA Seen and Unseen By JAMES AGATE NO, dea, readers of THE TATLER, I am not going to tell you what I think about Para mount's film-version at the Plaza of Mr. Noel Coward's Design for Living! The full title of this play, if I am to judge by the first act, should have been Design for Loose Living by a Woman of No Importance and Two Others. Mr. Coward's piece is obviously a trivial comedy ...

... The Cinema Three Films k By JAMES AGATE YEARS ago, in a comedy by Henry Arthur Jones, the young fop, whose mission in life was to be admonished by Sir Charles Wyndham, protested that he had never felt for the lady of title whose reputation that actor-manager was to save, anything in the nature of physical passion or culpable ardour. To this, in a great burst of indignation, Sir Charles was ...

... VBy^HESWn __^JU==^__T_ Soldiers' Steeplechasing. THE soldier steeplechasers have had their annual jig at Sandown Park, and they have doubtless read in all the papers that their Grand Military-- the title has a sonorous ring to it-- was a tremendous success. So it was from the gate-money point of view, to say nothing of the social side of the affair. I don't think I can remember such a crush as ...

... INTERESTING NEW BOOKS. A Valuable Book. NOW that cinematography in all its various branches is one of the great industries of the present day a book such as The Handbook of Kinematography, just issued by the publishers of The Kinematograph Weekly, is of the utmost importance. The book is probably the most comprehensive work that has ever been published on the new science. It traces the ...

... . Mr. Edward H. Cooper has been proposing in the columns of the Daily Mail an interesting self-denying ordinance; that is to say, the majority of our novelists should abstain for a period of five years from adding a more to the immortal literature of their country. I am afraid such a proposal is exceedingly quixotic, not to say Utopian. There is not the slightest likelihood that any of the men ...

... F [WITH SILENT FRIENDS A Notable Book. BY MC1AM 11MG, MON mot! as they do not say abroad, but I fancy that Mr. Reginald Kauffman's book, Daughters of Ishmael (Swift), will cause a flutter in the librarian dove cots. The unimaginative people who so kindly for an unimportant sum each year not only supply us with literature but look after our morals at the same time are likely to regard this ...

... THE WORLD OF MUSIC FespfoipEffiieff's .iradl FefrtfoffTnasifmceSa A Storv of Heerediis. Hegedüs, the violinist who has been giving recitals in London and Paris, has many odd recollections of his childhood. When quite a small boy he was examined by a German professor, who, however, after hearing a few notes, declined to hear the child. Hegedus departed disheartened, but ventured forth again the ...

... Stories oil ilhe Momento o Sweden's Queen. AN English couple touring in Sweden hap pened to get into conversation with a lady about Keswick in the Lake District. A very distinguished countryman of yours goes every year to Keswick, said the Englishman; I mean the Crown Prince of Sweden. Yes, said the lady, that is how we know the Lake District so well. But I was speaking of the Crown ...

... William Pitt. By Charles Whibley. With portraits and caricatures. 6s. net. (William Blackwood and Sons.) Mr. Whibley is known to all as a devoted student of the life and work of the great son of Chatham. His latest book happily commemorates the centenary of the death of Pitt, and all who admire the great statesman and who also appreciate style in bookmaking should possess this admi rable study ...