... THE THREE OF CLUBS. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton THE THREE OF CLUBS. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton 7S. DU.) Godfrey Cairsdale had a nice kettle of fish to fry when he was sent by the Chief of the British Diplomatic Service to unearth and, if possible, crush a huge international con spiracy known as The Three of Clubs. The object of this pleasing plot was to ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Pleasures and Palaces The Passionate Adven ture Bowery Memories By 0 R. LITTLEWOOD There is one fallacy of which I am con tinually finding traces among the sort of people who talk of the cinema upon a basis of judicial ignorance. It is the idea that all cinema-theatres are alike, and that because the same film is shown the entertainment and the audience are identical. ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Faith and the Child A Boy of Flanders''' The Publicity Mind By So IR„ L1TTLEWOOD Not long ago I had reason to plead for more imagination among those who are creating with such bewildering swiftness the traditions which must influence for a time, at any rate, the art of the cinema. There is another quality which has impressed itself upon me as no less vitally necessary. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC |gf THE ODD SPOT, AT THE VAUDEVILLE. IT is rather an odd spot in which to find a second-rate revue, for the Vaudeville has of late years become the recognised home for first- class ones only. But ships are but boards, sailors but men. so why should not a theatre also spring a leak now and again, and let in a green wave of mediocrity? Re member that the laws of chance ...

... . By W. Harold Thomson. (Long 7s. 6d.) An original tale of an island, not in the South Seas, but one of the Hebrides. Shelton, the millionaire, bought Lurg, and intended to have a look at it. Knowing this, a design ing lady, Mrs. Warren, with a daughter to sell, decided to pitch her tent on the island. At the same time, Carr, a bank clerk with a passion for geological research, hit on Lurg as ...

... . . By Alexandre Dumas. (Stanley Paul 2s. 6d.) (Stanley Paul 2s. 6d.) The elder Dumas had a huge fancy for this novel of his, which is not very well known to English readers. It has not hitherto been translated into English. The scene is laid in Naples during the attempted Revolution of 1798, and the plot centres upon the love affair of Luisa San Felice and Salvato Palmieri. Luisa, at first ...

... THE ART OF THE CINEMA. Beauty and her Foes Raqnel Meller's Violetta A Gaiety Girl By So K. ILETTILEWOOB Often I have wondered why it is that when beauty does get itself expressed upon the screen-- and happily this is by no means a rare phenomenon-- one nearly always finds some folly or meanness or sheer stupidity going with it. Can it be the law of creation, demanding that nothing should ever ...

... A LITERARY LETTER The Romance of La Belle Pamela. London, July 28, 1924. The name, Pamela, will always have its charm. It is that of Richardson's heroine, who lives as a character in fiction above most women, even though the novel that enshrines it is not much in vogue in the circulating libraries of our day. But one of the many children who have been named after Richard son's Pamela was ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard A Ton of Manuscript The late Richard Blake- borough may fairly be called an industrious man. Years and years ago, when the stage-coach was still the correct mode of transit in the minds of the conservative English people, he began to collect old songs, quaint stories, traditional folk-tales, and curious beliefs and customs. But he did not go to the British ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. V V i. THE PUPPET OPERA, AT THE GARRICK. HERE they are again, our dear little friends the Italian Marionettes, at the newly titivated Garrick, and the more we see them the better we love them, these homunculi, true to life in effigy, awakened to reality by magic hands. They are a wonderful make-believe. After a while the wires seem to vanish, and we ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard The Temple. All good Londoners know the Temple, but few of them know how it came to be built, who built it, why it was called the Temple, or how the lawyers got hold of it. Strange that hundreds and thousands of people should be content to pass the Temple every day of the week, or wander through its courts, and yet know nothing of its origin! Why, to begin ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC H YOICKS AT THE KINGSWAY THEATRE. MR. DONALD CALTHROP keeps pegging away at the task of getting you inside the comfort able little Kingsway Theatre. With Shakespeare and with modern farce he has had little luck, but he very nearly did the trick with Kate, where an impossible book murdered a good and well-sung score. I he cast, however, was probably too expensive to be ...