... YORK PREMIERE NOBODY CARES A new play by Alan Holden Wood is being produced at the Royal. York, this week, by the repertory company. Mr Wood chooses the controversial subject of marriage as his main theme, and deals with this in a masterly style. The cleverly contrived situ ations during the phoney war. and command of scintillating humour, make this play one of high quality and first-class ...

... ARTS, CAMBRIDGE TROILUS AND CRESSIDA On Tuesday at the Arts. Cam bridge. the Cambridge Marlowe Society and A. D C presented a Lent Term production of Shake speare's Troilus and Cressida. This revival is notable for some of Shakespeare's best language clearly and fluently spoken by eager, virile, young players and for beauty of decor and costumes illuminated by adroitly contrived lighting. ...

... AT BEXHILL MACBETH At the De La Warr Pavilion. I Bexhill. on Tuesday. Rossinger Productions presented the Reunion Repertory Company in a revival of Shakespeare's Macbeth It was a remarkable achieve ment to stage such a large pro- duction in the week, taking normal repertory work in the same stride. Success is indicated by I block-bookings this week from Eastbourne and Hastings The production ...

... AT CRIPPLEGATE THE NEW GOSSOON On January 3 the Drama Circle of the London Ulster Association presented, at the Cripple-gate Institute, the play by George Shiels entitled. Most Irish playwrights have expressed in their works a whim sical sense of humour and a droll- peculiar to the Irish. In this F.lav Mr Shiels does not deviate, t is all humour; but he indicates that the eld Ireland, with ...

... . JEALOUSY. Warner. British. Adapted from a stage play, The Green Eye, this is useful drama. The story possesses little originality, but has been well worked out with good dialogue. Production by G. B. Samuelson is capital. Tho story tells of one Garwood, who is in love with his ward, Joyce. She, unfortunately, love9 Bernard Wyngate. It is necessary to get the young man out of tho way, ...

... . DOMINION City Lights. Now that the hysteria has died town, and the intensive boosting hat heralded the new Chaplin ilm has become quieter, it is lasier to look at tho matter impartially. Like most other things the virtues of vhich have been ammod dovtn tho public throat *d nauseam, City Lights, pre sented here on Fobraary 27, is iomething of a disappointment. IV o are told that the ...

... . 'THE BROKEN ROMANCE. (Fox. British.) H. B. Parkinson is best known as a maker of short subjects, and in this direction he lias been extremely suooeseful. As a director of a full-length feature he is not so satisfactory. He has chosen a poor, novelettish story, and the, construction of tho. scenario is not up to tho standard required, A young author falls in |,ove with tho daughter of a ...

... Why Not See More Hicks? I interviewed Seymour Hicks recently. He told me that he has arranged to appear in ten new comedy films with Miss Ellaline Terriss This will be his first screen attempt for several years. Before the was he had a fling at kinoma acting, and these were early days, when picture producing ua* still in its early etoge, and he did not think much ...

... . MADAME POMPADOUR (Herbert Wilcox. British). This film, produced by Herbert Wilcox for British National, and now destined to Oguro as a Famous Players Lasky quota film, is described as being British. It was made in England, but the cast is an international one. The story, circling round one of the most remarkable women and one of the most absorbing periods in history, is full of action und ...

... List!-- Lift! Oh. List! Radio is responsible for interest ing development. When the Home Wireless craze arose in America drew attention to it and pro phesied that we should soon see it worked here from our own broad casting centres. This has already been done with the Carpentier Lewxa fitfbt. Now America if starting on another method of oon Yuriin* movies into apeakiee. Already monv U.S. ...

... . MASSES, STAGE, AND FILM GUILD. On Sunday night, at the Scala, the Masses, Stage, and Film Guild showed three pictures, sang the Internationale lustily, and made protests against the authorities who had prevented the screening of the Russian drama 44 Mother. From the protests we learned that the London County Council permitted the screening of certain pictures by the opulent Film Sooiety ...

... . THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, (Famous Players Lanky. American.) If ever a picture should have been made on its native heath, or at any rate, in a British studio, this is one. Basil Dean, already responsible in some part for the picturisation of The Constant Nymph, of which he was part author as a play, has, on this f'°n> sought Americas assistance. I ho result is an ordinary American ...