... . 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 ...

... . TALKIE PUBLICITY FILMS. This newly organised firm is of the opportunist order, and has a good and carefully worked-out scheme by which the wares of various big firms will be incorporated in a story, but not to the extent of detracting from the picture's fictional interest. They will then be shown by means of daylight kinematograpoy through out the land. Some 300 towns and village* are ...

... . EMPIRE--''POLITICS.'' (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.) Although American politics are often strange to us, the humour of Marie Dressler has a wide appeal. In this case we hare her as a hard-working housewife who, infuriated by a gang murder, decides to enter the arena of local politics and purify the town. The women support her whole heartedly, but the men make things very unpleasant* and an awkward ...

... . While Samuel Goldwin and other people are hunting for stars in every walk of life exccpt those most likely to produce them, and Douglas Fairbanksi from the opulent seclusion of a Paris hotel, is telling us we never shall be able to make pictures, certain publicity experts are Jetting dawn the dig nity of a hard-working section of tho profej-sion by referring to its members as supers ...

... . BLACK WATERS (W. and P. British and Dominione.) Adapted from John Willard's play, Fog, this feature has several distinctions. It is the first all-talking picture which can be called international it was made by a famous American producer in Hollywood for a British firm iit naa inniuu ow ferent theatres, the New Gallery and the Tivoli, on tho same day, and it is undoubtedly the best ...

... THE CHANTICLEER EASTER On Saturday last, the Anglo- Arts (Drama) Club presented Easter. uv August Strindberg in a new translation by Elizabeth Sprlgge. with d6cor by Geoffrey Moss. The plot tells, it will be recalled, of an ill-fated family's return to happiness over the Easter period, and is full of sym bolism The producer Margaret Morris, rightly stressed this, for the characters are ...