... . 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 ...

... . As was only to be expected, the revival in the British film industry and the prospects it gives of work could not proceed without a jarring note. This note has been provided by two producing units who are already unable to meet their liabilities. One was partially trolled by an American direc tor who had already achieved such a bad financial reputation that it is remarkable lie found ...

... . SHOULD A DOCTOR TELLT? (British Lion. British.) Despite the experienced production of Manning Haynes, a capital company, and good recording, this feature will not help us much, nor is it likely to prove a public attraction, in spits of a certain morbid curiosity the title may be relied upon to arouse. The weak story is obviously inspired by recent happenings in the Law Courts. The ...

... . FILMED VAUDEVILLE. Although in some quarters the talkies are said to be injuring variety, it is a remarkable fact that the screens of the kinema are prone to go to the music-hall stage, for many of their programme items and general assistance. The numerous so-called film revues have up to now been nothing but series of music-hall acts, somewhat clumsily strung together, ond even the big ...

... COVENT GARDEN THE VALKYRIE On wednesday of last week the Covent Garden Trust staged the first performance since the war of Wagner's i lie amyne. Stephen Williams writes: This production has come in for some fairly hard knocks Many critics have waxed facetious about Die lighting or we might more appropriately call It the search- lighting and others have coin- plained of the stark, ...

... ST. ANNE'S, SOHO THE MASQUE OF ST. ANTONY For the past fortnight St. Anne's House. Soho. has presented the first part of This Way to the Tomb, by Ronald Duncan, under its original title of The Masque of Saint Antony. This studious work, with the attractive music of Benjamin Britten, lost nothing in being entrusted to a semi- professional company. Also, the producer was Frank Napier, who ...

... NORWICH PREMIERE AND HE DID HIDE HIMSELF On Monday, at the Maddermarket, Norwich, the Maddermarket Theatre Trust. Ltd., presented the Norwich Players in the first English production of a play in three acts by Ignazio Silone entitled And He Did Hide Himself.'* The Italian author, an ardent Socialist, has based his story of the Italian underground movement on his novel Bread and Wine. ...

... BRIGHTON PREMIERE THE GALE On Tuesday of last week at the PLayhouse, Brighton, was pre sented a jew play in three acts by Parnell Bradbury entitled The Gale. A better title would be The Tame Bull. as the whole of the drama of a doctor's efforts to im prove scientifically on human nature follow# his successful ex periment in changing the temper of a fierce bull. It is. indeed, chiefly ...

... THE UNITY SIX MEN OF DORSET To those accustomed to the excellent standard frequently achieved in the presentations at the Unity Theatre the production of Six Men of Dorset seen on Friday will be something of a ?i) ...

... NEW LINDSEY WINTERSET On Monday. Independent Theatre Productions, by arrange ment with the New Lindsey Theatre Club, presented a revival of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset. The group of young players, sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, the American Correspondents' Association and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. who have put on this production, deserve every help and consideration for ...

... THE SAVILLE INDIAN BALLET On Wednesday of last week Julian Braunsweg and the Music, Art, and Drama Society, by arrangement with Bernarcl Delfont, presented rvttiii vjuiwi anu ni> iiiuian naii^i The eye is beguiled and the senses bewitched by the new pro gramme of Indian dances which Ram Gopal and his trouDe are per forming in London, after their re- rent Paris season. Thev bring more than ...

... ST. JAMES'S THE BOLTONS REVUE On Tuesday Bottoms theatre (Kensington), Ltd., presented an intimate revue devised and directed by Billy Milton, with dances and arrangements by Donald Reed, entitled The Boltons Revue. The Boltons Revue has been considerably strengthened and brightened since its original.pro- duction at the Boltons last Christ mas. when it was fully noticed in The Stage. It ...