... . THE HAPPY ENDING. (Gaumont-British.) A silent version of Ian Hay's story was made some years ago, the director being, so far as we remember. George Cooper, and the star Fay Compton. it was an exceedingly good film. As so often happens nowadays, the story in the new picture suffers somewhat from tho lure of apectacle and elaboration, it lias been directed by an American, Millard Webb, ...

... . THE SHOW OF SHOWS (Warner). The current attraction at the Tivoli is probably the biggest of the semi-revue pictures that have yet been screened in this country. The cast includes close on a hundred well-known film personalities in America, including some British players. These are supported by a battalion of picked Hollywood beauties. The whole is somewhat oyer- weighted. A complete ...

... ARTS COUNCIL TOURS OR REPS.? To the Editor of The Stack. Dear Sir, I have read with In terest your article on the work of the Arts Council. Many people up and down the countryside who came to take an active interest in the theatre through the old pfay- tour method feel that they have been let down by being cut off from their C.E.M.A. plays. Has not the trouble with our theatre always been ...

... BLACKPOOL PREMIERE FOUR HOURS TO KILL On Monday, at the Grand. Blackpool. Bernard Delfont presented the American play by Norman Krasna entitled. Entwined in this drama are three stories, ali taking place in the luxurious lounge of a 45rd- street theatre in New York. The play opens as the audience are passing .hrough to take their scats Here ;n the crush are Joseph Taft. a plain-clothes ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... . '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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...