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... 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 ...
... 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. *4 tS 0 I. THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH, AT THE KING'S, HAMMERSMITH. THERE is no more popular writer of romantic novels than Mr. Jeffery Farnol, and he not only combines a happy inventiveness with a pretty sense of phrase, but to this atmosphere he brings a clear sense of character-drawing. These factors are almost essential in the theatre, and the choice of this favourite ...
... A TASTE OF HONEY. By Eric Masch- witz. (Constable 7s. 6d.) A TASTE OF HONEY. By Eric Masch- witz. (Constable 7s. 6d.) A L V cli V cLSO-ll 111 OUULU-LiaSLClU LiUfUpC, Gerda and Elspeth work out their drama of passion. Both girls had the misfortune to fall in love with the same man, J errold Freyne, a writer, and a writer of novels at that. Jer- rold, already betrothed to Elspeth, is the type ...
... THE NATURAL MAN. By Patrick Miller. (Grant Richards 7s. 6d.) THE NATURAL MAN. By Patrick Miller. (Grant Richards 7s. 6d.) j. ne war is si.111 wiui us, anu me war- novel. But the fiction of the bad four years is taking a new shape, as the conflict falls into truer perspective. Here is one of the most original, perhaps the most original, war-story yet written. Mr. Miller has given us a study of ...
... . By O. Douglas. (Hodder and Stoughton 7s. 6d.) Sweet, of course, and toothsome, but never cloying, this Scottish story comes along opportunely in the height of the Scottish Season, so put it in your bag. The names alone are pleasing Kirsty Gilmour, Mrs. Strang, Mr. and Mrs. McCandlish, the Duff-Whalleys, and melancholy Colonel Home. Here are delightful children keep your eye on Bad Bill and ...
... . By Nat Gould. (Long; 7s. 6d.) This is a posthumous novel by the well-known writer of sporting stories. It is quite in his familiar style of racy and exciting incident, and presents the usual Nat Gould picture of the Turf in all its aspects. Shady do ings are inevitable, and the hero, Stainer, is a crook. But he is a crook with a straight twist, if cinrh a naraHnv i ...
... THE GARDEN OF FOLLY. By Stephen Leacock. (The Bodley Head 5s.) THE GARDEN OF FOLLY. By Stephen Leacock. (The Bodley Head 5s.) XXlULLUUgil. 11UL cl 11UVCI All LUC bLiIL/L bCiibC U1 the word, this latest piece of Mr. Leacock's fooling comes under the head of light reading. And as it contains one or two (burlesque) short stories, it may quite well be considered as fiction. Mr. Leacock, that grave ...
... A LITERARY LETTER The Yeats Family. London, August 11, 1924. I have read a hundred biographies in the various newspapers concerning the late Joseph Conrad. I think, on the whole, I like best the summary of his work contained in a leading article in The Manchester Guardian, from which I venture to preserve the following passage:-- He saw human life, on the whole, as something lofty, sombre, and ...
... THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. (Fisher Unwin 7s. 6d.) THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. (Fisher Unwin 7s. 6d.) the title mignt lead anyone wno mows the folk-lore of the fisher folk of North- Eastern Scotland to think that this book might have its scene laid there for at fisher weddings there used to be a curious ceremony called the shame dance. But Mr. Steele has given us ...