... . FILMS SHOWING. Great Britain is not particularly well represented in tho Easter programmes, although a number of players who are popular here have their places on f screen Rookery Nook, the Tom Walls British and Dominions feature, which has already enjoyed a highly tui run at the New Gallery, has started a second at the Astoria. Stewart Romo and Frances Doblo are being seen in. Dark Red ...

... 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 ...

... . 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, ...

... . PAINTED PICTURES (Fox, British). It is said that the Fox Film Company are going to make pictures in England. If that be so, we shall probably be freed from the quota stuff that it, together with other firms, has been putting out. Painted Pictures is a good example of the unintelligent sort of thing that goes out as British, and compares badly with even tho most ordinary American films ...

... . WANTED. (Producers Distributing- Company. All-Talking:.) Originality on the screen is in itself somewhat of a novelty. Unfortunately, immediately a producer or scenarist strikes a new idea it gives inspiration to his brethern who proceed to flood the world with what might at least be called colourable imitations of the original. Within the last few months we have seen this in the rush ...

... . 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 ...

... Cut and Come Again. I see that tho Ideal Co. advertises that it has cut down half a dozen of its past-issued five-reelers into smartly moving two-reelers, and claims thereby to have brilliantly improved them. This may well be so. I can recall that one of the lot now advertised as being so trreated Her Greatest Performance, with Kllen Terry in the cast, seemed to tne unduly spun out in its ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...