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... . Georgina Delmar.-- Miss Georgina Delmar, who played the title-rôle in Audran's opera, La Toledad, on its first production in London at the Kennington Theatre last April and who has resumed the part in the condensed version of the opera at the Palace Theatre, is really English. In the early nineties Miss Del mar studied for four years under Signor Albert Visetti at the Royal College of Music, ...

... Creator59 audi I at a Cinema^ The Man Outside. IF the creature and I did not stay at home in August, when on earth should we be able to wear out the year's accumulation of old clothes? For in Balham to be shabby is to be suspected of all the deadly sins. We are extremely up to date and smart every day of the week; we are more than ordinarily gor geous when we go to pay our call on-- I ...

... ENTERTAINMENTS d la CARTE By JLAN 3077 IT would not be quite true to say that Gordon Harker's face is his fortune; but, then, neither are the faces of Miss Garbo and Mr. Gable their whole fortune. Still, Mr. Harker's face, like the others, is worth its weight in minted gold. Beyond that, it is more distinc tive than, and at least as eloquent as. Mr. Gable's or Miss Garbo's. Once seen, it can ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE The Past Year's Films AT this time of year the correct or at least the expected thing is to write an article entitled The Year's Best Films. And at once the old, old question has to be asked-- Best films for whom? Which brings me still nearer to first principles when one begins to ask oneself-- What is a good film, and what is a bad? Let me deal with the bad films ...

... THE CINEMA A Pronouncement By JAMES AGATE I AM now about to make the most important pronounce ment that has ever been made or ever will be made with reference to the representational arts by any critic from Aristotle to Miss Lejeune. Aristotle couldn't have made it, and my fair rival who revealed her age in the matter of Mr. Bernstein's Questionnaire is obviously too young to have attained the ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE WHAT PLEASES THE PUBLIC THE other day I read somewhere-- precisely where doesn't matter-- an attack on the quasi-musical person. It was a witty and an erudite attack, but completely invalidated, to my mind, by the notion, undeclared though implied throughout the article, that great composers write their music for the benefit of musical critics only! I think I never ...

... THE CINEMA The Petrified Forest By JAMES AGATE MR. LESLIE HOWARD has written me a charming letter which I feel it my duty to give here:-- Dear Mr. Agate,-- I know it is silly for an actor to answer back at his critics, but as you have done me, I am sure quite unwittingly, an injustice in your article in the current TATLER, I hope I may be allowed these words. I am sorry you did not guess ...

... THE CINEMA Nonsense and More Nonsense By JAMES AGATE THE other evening I turned into a little picture-house in Oxford Street to see the kind of entertainment offered to people who want to drop into a film casually. I was, as a matter of fact, stranded at Oxford Circus with an hour to spend and nowhere to go. It occurred to me that all over London there must be many thousands of people ...

... Blithe Spirit (Piccadilly) By Herbert Farjeon MR. NOEL COWARD calls his new play An Improbable Farce, which is a bit of pleonasm, for are not all farces, in their very nature, improbable? Super natural would have been a happier word, since Blithe Spirit skylarks with the occult, extracting its humours from the materialisa tion of a dead wife, perceptible only by her living husband. Fear ...

... Elizabeth Betvens Creatures of Circumstance Treadmill Leave to Presume the Death The Novel Since 1939 QUITE an interesting study for the sub- historian could be: errors which gave rise to famous false alarms. These, I imagine, would be found to thicken with the approach to our own fortunate day: the type writer must be responsible for many. I advisedly say the typewriter, not the young lady at ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE Suggestion for a Dickens Film WHY on earth does nobody film Great Expectations? Or, if it has been filmed-- and it is at the back of my mind that the Swedes had a good shot at it in the silent days-- why is it not re-filmed? The question arises because the Dickens novel has just been successfully dramatized at the Rudolf Steiner Theatre, and though I much enjoyed the ...