... Facing the Future High-brow Vagaries and the Film Society A Burst of Humour By S. R. LITTLEWOOD Nowhere, probably, in the world of art doe? that spontaneous mood which obeys the call of purely external things, like the calendar, count for less than it does in the cinema. Here Einstein is a commonplace. The relativity of time holds good so surely, that with those of us who have the sometimes ...

... 0R O.0MS GfOlO THE OLD ADAM AT THE KINGS WAY THEATRE. THE common remark made when a play deals with situations outside human experience is that it would have made a good musical comedy. How often have we read, concerning a new play, The piece cannot be taken seriously, but with songs and a beauty chorus added it might do well. Yet it is a rare thing for a musical comedy to get praised for ...

... ti A. J Produced November 23, 1923 By JINGLE THIS is quite an ingenious play. It begins by making us laugh-- a little nervously perhaps-- at the idea of ghosts, and then proceeds, like the Fat Boy, to make our flesh creep. The scene is the small and ill-kept waiting room of a remote Cornish railway station. Owing to the inconsiderate action of one of the passengers, who, having lost his hat ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. y By J. T. Grein. _ n i. HENRY VIII., AT THE EMPIRE. BRAVO, Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, and, last, but not least, Charles Ricketts! It was a noble deed, nobly done. Whatever the play-- and we need not go into that, nor query the choice-- this time Shakespeare will bring fortune as well as fame. For if the frame was magni ficent-- majestic in classicism, impressive ...

... J The Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp. T -f Immortal Jane. What has become of all the witty women? They do not seem to talk as well as they were wont to do, and they certainly do not write the letters that they were wont to write. Is it because they have not so much time as once they had? And yet, as the saying goes, they have all the time there is. Is it because bridge for a long time past has ...

... _ r QpWS c CINDERELLA AT THE PALLADIUM. CINDERELLA, at the Pal ladium, is an excellent example of a good, practicable pantomime. There is always movement on the stage, and per haps the best commentary on it is that when the writer looked at his watch the time was an hour later than he thought. It cannot be compared with the best of the Drury Lane pantomimes ol the old days, but that is ...

... T( The Stage or the day! By Harris Deans. IF, as one's old nurse used to say, it takes all sorts of people to make a world, it also certainly takes all sorts of plays to make the Drama, and this week we have as varied a bunch as one could wish for. ANDROCLES AND THE LION (REGENT). I didn't see Androcles when it was first produced, in 1913, but I do remember the hullabaloo it caused, and many ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp. Are You a Crook Under that plausible ex terior, are you a crook? If you picked up a diamond in the street, would you take it to the nearest police-station, or would you wait till somebody advertised for it? Are you aware that there is such a thing as larceny by finding? Have you ever travelled first class on a third-class ticket Does your conscience burn ...

... Qmmm, B ifi **zr HHi /^M^M 1 i S iWm^mmS AT TH£- L.^LLA'DlCM Produced December 23, 1925 By JINGLE THERE can hardly be a more elaborate or more satisfying entertainment than this, in Town, at the moment. In spite of the generous interludes of song and dance and scenic effect, the old story runs coherently through the show to its appointed end. Many of the lighting effects are both ingenious ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. 4° I. CINDERELLA, AT THE PALLADIUM. I DON'T know which I enjoyed more--the dear old story prettily told and gorgeously arrayed, or the hue and cry, the pip and squeak, the silvery laughter of the hundreds and hundreds of children who, as well as their parents, had the time of their little lives. For this is the true pantomime of tradition, and in its ...

... A BYSTANDER. I BOOKS 6 nT>- sl IN the book on my table it is called New Granada, which is a name of some beauty, but on the maps it is spelt simply Colombia. Schoolboys, it may be, have heard of Colombia; they may even remember that Bogota is its capital town. But do their elders know very much more than that? (Lnless, of course, they have shares in some oil concern.) Oil yes, the little word ...

... The Clubman. v W1 By Beveren. The Talk from Mars. The best thing the B.B.C. have done for a long time was their relay of the broadcast from Mars. The atmosphere was created by an agitated conversation about mysterious interference before the evening's programme started. The real mo ment arrived with the dramatic interruption of Mr. Donald Cal- throp in the middle of a speech by strange ...