... PLAYS. MUSIC. AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The Walls of Jericho.-- It is a strange but rather interesting play that Mr. Alfred Sutro has written for Mr. Bourchier at the Garrick. We know Mr. Sutro, the translator of Maeterlinck. We have read Mr. Sutro as a historian of the ways of the Wood in a series of short stories. The Walls of Jericho has a touch of both, for the play ...

... FIUAYSp MUSIC, AB3 OT111 EBJTE1TAIHMEMTS 'WoK. Iby W]&° Orphee at the Opera.-- The production of Orphée at Covent Garden, to which I just made an allusion last week, proved very interesting indeed, although I prefer it sung in Italian. Madame Kirkby Lunn sings the music of Orphée beautifully, but I wonder why she seems to scowl so much in the part she plays? Perhaps scowl is too strong a ...

... BRITISH TRADE AND THE ZOLLVEREIN ISSUE. By Leone George Chiozza. (Commercial Intelligence Publishing Company, Ltd.) is. net.-- The second edition of this interesting and authorita tive little handbook-- No. 1 of Sell's Commercial Intelligence handbooks appears opportunely at the present time when all the world is humming with expectation of a coming Zollverein campaign and possibly a fierce ...

... PLAYS. MUSIC. AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The Italian Season at Covent Garden.-- The season of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company at Covent Garden has begun, Mr. Henry Russell (the brother of Mr. Landon Ronald) being billed as manager and Signer Cam panini as conductor. This week they are giving Manon Lescaut, Aida, La Tosca, Rigoletto, and Carmen. Among the artists I may say that ...

... A Racing' NotelbooR s By Tike Syce.9' A Wonderful Dead Heat. TO many of us who still had faith in Neil Gow it was a dull and dis appointing moment as we saw Lemberg coming along comfortably with the race for the Eclipse Stakes apparently well won two furlongs from home and Neil Gow apparently numbered amongst the also ran. The favourite wins easily It's 10 to i on Lem- berg these and such ...

... ENTERTAINMENTS a la CARTE Whu Scots Leave Home By ylLAN £077 FROM Sturm im Wasserglass to Storm in a Teacup; from Burgomaster to Provost. Mr. James Bridie, adapting Herr Bruno Frank's lightly Teutonic play into as light a Scottish one, has done more than translate Germany into Scotland and write a rippling comedy about a mongrel dog. His persuasive use of background has shown anew why ...

... The Cinema Concerning Television By JAMES AGATE A FEW days ago I received a copy of a Statement on Television made at Hollywood last month by Mr. David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Co-operation of America. Mr. Sarnoff begins by telling us that it is no good objecting to television. He is right. Like Mrs. Bardell we must compose ourselves to this situation, since to this situation we must ...

... THE CINEMA flie Empire Off Colour By JAMES AGATE IT is now settled beyond any possibility of doubt that I have gone mad. Already I feel the shades of Colney Hatch closing in upon me and can only hope that enough reason remains to enable me to finish this article. Looking at the Empire programme I see that in a film called The Shadow the. actor playing the part of Sir Richard Bryant is Sam ...

... THE CINEMA AMATEUR AND IMPERFECT By JAMES AGATE MY title this week must be taken as strictly ironical. Neither The Amateur Gentleman at the London Pavilion, nor The Imperfect Lady at the Tivoli, is by any means amateur or even imperfect. Both are, in fact, highly professional, being the respective products of Criterion Film Productions, an English concern, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the American ...

... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE A Delicate Point SOME little time ago I was present at one of those luncheon parties at which American film producers are wont to express their aspirations. There was the usual demand for questions, and I ventured to comply with the demand, asking in the civilest manner possible whether the magnate who was entertaining us would not consider the possibility of pro ...

... THE CINEMA Things to Come By JAMES AGATE THE film at the Leicester Square Theatre is worthy of one's best consideration if only for the reason that it is written by Mr. Wells and produced by Mr. Korda, our foremost triers in their respective worlds. In this case, each has put his hand to both the plough and the stars, and, though the result is something less than achievement, the attempt ...

... THE CINEMA Two Conversations and a Disappointment By JAMES AGATE ONE day this week I had two amusing experiences both of them being of the conversational order. In the first instance one of our most famous living actors was telling me how to save the theatre. One of the first things to do was to insist upon evening dress, make prices higher, and seats even more uncomfortable than they are, ...