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... 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 ...

... The Cinema A Paris Idol By JAMES AGATE. CURIOUSER and curiouser, said Alice in some connection or other. I can never stop wondering what that heavenly young woman would have said if she had had leisure to inspect the films, which, as time goes on, become funnier and funnier in a strictly sub conscious way. The other evening I fought my own way into a seat at the Plaza during an exordium by ...

... !SZ The Gaiety Theatre. YOU can scarcely call the re-production of that old Gaiety Theatre success, The Shop Girl, a revival, if truth and nothing but the truth be your motto. Rather, it is a mutilation. So little of the original remains; the story has been so greatly changed; so much new music has been composed; so many new lyrics introduced; a great part of the dialogue has been entirely ...

... The Cinema TVoafln's Ark Paccadallv Theatre, By JAMES AGATE. ONE day when the elder Guitry was engaged at breakfast, always a formidable affair with the old man, there entered to him an inquisitive journalist. Whereupon the following conversation took place: What is Sacha doing now Writing. Writing what A play. A play about what The Book of Genesis. Who for Sarah. And what part does ...

... THE PASSING SHOWS Symphony in Two Flats, at the New Theatre. THE symphony is there, the flats are there, one above the other, and Mr. Novello is very much there, playing his own sob-stuff (no offence meant), on and off the piano, to the upper circle, and retiring gracefully to allow the stalls to renew laughing acquaintance with Miss Lilian Braithwaite and Miss Viola Tree in companion parts ...

... The Cinema A Reinforcement By .JAMES AGATE. IF there is one thing I should hate more than anything else it would be a reputation for unfairness. I have always believed in giving the devil not only his due, which might incline him to argument like the Scot whose change is only just right, but more than his due. I like to be fair to the point even of putting all my cards on the table. I have, as ...

... A Literary IDelbacIle By G. WyadKam. H&sle&L HENRY Bathurst Simmons owed his front-rank position as a novelist to his remarkable faculty for the presen tation of human character. However, his greatest friend, Wallace Jefferies, critic and essayist, refused absolutely to concede any testimonial to Simmons' characterisa tion. In the early days, when he was writing Veronica Sterne (the novel ...

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... Tlh Cinema Ad By JAMES AGATE. SOME little time ago I was playing round a golf-course near Croydon. Nailed up against every large tree was a placard bearing the mystic letters, P.R.D. Under neath were written the further letters, P.T.O. I asked my caddie the meaning of these cabalistic signs, and he replied, Wot they means is 'Please Replace Divots' and 'Please Tell Others.' From recent ...

... The Cinema The Meseue aod Other Matters By JIAIM.ES AGATE., SOME day one of our highbrows will have to tell us what is the secret of the good film. Now which highbrow shall we choose? Mr. Arnold Bennett? I think not, for the reason that Piccadilly shows him to hold the belief that the screen is the same thing as the stage only more so. Mr. H. G. Wells? I feel sure that this great writer and ...