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... Chicken Every Sunday (Savoy) IT is a sobering reflection for those who make light of national differences that the airiest trifles when put to the test are found to have their roots deep in the soil of a particular country. We all know that while on one side of the English Channel Racine is despised and Shakespeare worshipped, on the other Shake speare is tolerated and Racine adored, but here ...
... RECORD DF THE WEEK THE musical taste of the general public often takes a curious' twist, and those who are sworn anti-jazzites suddenly become conscious that something of this day and age is worth while. In the same way the jazz fiend discovers that the basis of this type of music is often directly traceable to a solid knowledge of the classics. Thus it is interesting to see that Sidney Torch ...
... Elizabeth Bcwen s BROWNS AND CHESTER: A Portrait of a Shop (Lindsay Drummond; 15s.) has an unusual author-- Mass-Observation. Up to now, this form of research has been applied to contemporary affairs; and enlighten ing, if sometimes startling, have its results been --we have been documented, if one may so put it, up to the hilt. We may still be ignorant as to our neighbours' ways of life if ...
... THERE are two recent recordings of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and though it may seem too much to suggest that both versions of this major work are heard, no one who really enjoys and appreciates music should miss listening to one or other set of records. Apart from the actual performance of the orchestras concerned, both recordings show how much in advance British recording systems are ...
... The Borgia Testament 14 The Wisdom of Dr. Johnson 44 Portrait of a House 44 Devil's Reckoning: Elizabeth Botven s NIGEL BALCHIN is, as a novelist, admirable-- not least admirable for his way of being for ever upon the move. Reputation came to him early, but he has not been content to take out a patent on, simply, one kind of success: he continues to experiment, to break new ground. He came out ...
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... The Cinema At the Tivoli By JAMES AGATE THE hypocritical English! Surely it is time that somebody drew attention to this phrase, and how damaging it is to the English heart while paying too much court to the English head. In the great gallery of Charles Dickens there are many hypocrites though of varying calibre. There is no finesse about Stiggins, whose attentions to Dineannle-rum and the ...
... The Cinema The Dreyfus Film By JAMES AGATE THE unhealed wound of the lost provinces and the spectre of another war were in 1894 ever present in the mind of every French patriot. What Frenchman-- soldier, politician, or bon bourgeois-- could be unaware of the menace of that young Emperor proclaiming militarism his god and prancing on a white horse and in shining armour up and down the further ...
... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE Her and There I AM ashamed to say that it was not until a recent Sunday that I made acquaintance with the work of the Film Society. Even then, owing to the difficulty of getting away from a luncheon-party, I only saw the last half of the programme at the Tivoli, which was M. André Gide's Voyage au Congo. The programme's description of this film ran as follows: The ...
... The Cinema A Lovely Film By JAMES AGATE THE film world is at the moment staggered by the kind of surprise which occurs so regularly in all the other arts that one would almost expect it to be looked for. That surprise is nothing less than this: that the public, or some of it, really does like the highest when it gets the chance to see it. The chance in these matters is everything. I have no ...
... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE. England's, and Vitaplhome's, Darlings I SUPPOSE that some day I shall be able to enter the Piccadilly Theatre without hearing Mr. Martinelli bellowing On With the Motley. But that day is not yet. And I suppose, too, that some day I shall be able to attend this theatre or picture-house without my attention being claimed on behalf of the black races. But that also is ...