... By I J one I Collier IN the New Year good men's thoughts turn to resolutions, while critics become incurably restrospec tive. It's a habit and must be in dulged. As a matter of fact, the past year in the screen's history has been something in the nature of a new birth. The talkies have arrived, and whether you want them or not they are going to stay. There is one very simple reason for this, ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. V J|l J' I. MADAME PLAYS NAP, AT THE NEW THEATRE. MADAME plays Nap-- and wins. Truth to tell, she did not hold many trumps, for the play is merely an elaborated anecdote turned sans-gêne into a three-act play, the kind of thing that would have gladdened the heart of the late lamented author of The Comic History of England, and comes at the right time ...

... J' The Literary Lounger, By L. P. Hartley A The Naughty Middle Ages. Mr. James Branch Cabell's particular form of fantasy is a special taste-- one likes it or one doesn't; the personal idiom is so strong that it drives out purely aesthetic considerations. I cannot quite acclimatise myself to the atmosphere of cloudy Middle- Age legend spiced by Vie Parisienne naughti ness. At the same time one ...

... EX. WIVES and OTHERS By Ralph S tr&us I DO not expect that the late Sir Herbert Tree's sugges tion for the brightening of divorce will ever receive favourable consideration-- even in America, but what a charm ing suggestion it was! His idea, you may remember, was to have a pleasant little cele bration, a nice breakfast (with or without a cake, but certainly with champagne), and two cabs ...

... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE Piffle about Pola ONE day last week, as we were training it to some golf course or other, my partner for the day, who had hitherto been gloomily buried in the columns of one of our more popular dailies, suddenly resumed his normal expression. Now, it is only in novels that anybody chuckles, and I do not believe that any novelist would recognise the sound even if he ...

... REFERENCE BOOKS FOR 1930 Post Office London Directory The 131st (1930) edition of the Post Office London Directory (Kelly, cloth, 55s.; leather gilt, 70s.) is now on sale. The task of revising and cor ...

... REFERENCE BOOKS FOR 1930 Post Office London Directory The 131st (1930) edition of the Post Office London Directory (Kelly, cloth, 55s.; leather gilt, 70s.) is now on sale. The task of revising and cor ...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF New Publications THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE was one of the great est of those aristocratic rebels who play an im portant part in all revolutions. Liberty was his religion and he was a de ...

... O Op135 Oc om DEAR LOVE (77/e Palace Theatre THE Palace Theatre was built as a home for English grand opera, and now, after nearly forty years, an operatic singer has been engaged there to play a musical comedy hero. Affairs are progressing-- at glacier rate. The very sentimental title of this musical comedy is justified. The leading couple fall in love at first sight and pour out their ...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF New Publications THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE was one of the great est of those aristocratic rebels who play an im portant part in all revolutions. Liberty was his religion and he was a de ...

... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE OdLds and Ends I HAVE received the following letter from some place in Australia which calls itself either Neutral Bay or Mental Bay. My unknown correspondent's hand-writing makes it impossible for me to be precise. After paying me a compliment which I should blush to divulge to anybody ex cept the editor of this paper, the writer goes on: 'Babylon at Brixton' is an ...

... The Black Camel, by Earl Derr Biggers, is a mystery story, to be published by Cassells on January 9, in which the real clue is not chanced upon till the last moment. Who killed Shelah Fane, and did she kill Denny Mayo? This double problem is a double mystery which Chan, the Chinese de tective, sets out to solve. Alter many false trails the one slender clue at last enables the sleuth to make ...