... 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 ...