... Mr. Edgar Wallace! His power of absorption and observation is baffling. He goes for a few weeks to Chicago-- studies crime, police, and law-- and he comes back with a crook-drama that equals, nay, beats, the best American product. If I had not known that ...

... once sensuous and powerful, he extended the frontiers of expression, and was the pioneer in a domain in which his men and women became the puppets of deep, primeval impulses. Gradually a frenzy crept into his work, the obsession with the sex factor dominated ...

... member of the 14 Chauve- Souris is stamped by the master's system like so many coins are a wonderful troupe of troubadours and women fair. Their leader, whose abracadabra English is an everlasting joy, with many a satirical shaft in its quiver, is not only ...

... the pioneer days of aviation, and is still a name to arrest attention wherever two or more survivors of the old Royal Flying Corps are gathered together. Robert Loraine was also a soldier a volunteer trooper in the Imperial Mont gomeryshire Yeomanry in the ...

... Academy. They wear their rue with a very decided difference, but this much they have in common-- they are outmatched by women. Kay Francis, in KING OF THE UNDERWORLD (Regal), is a brilliant young surgeon who uses her medical knowledge in the fight ...

... appointed to the Air Ministry as Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the new separate women's service whose formation has been approved by the King. Miss Trefusis Forbes was formerly an officer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Members of the W.A ...

... R.O.I. Exhibition and shows an Auxiliary Fire Service volunteer at her post gas-mask laid out handy and tin helmet by her side. HE PUTS OUT FIRES, by JAMES PROUDFOOT, R.O.I., is a good study of a member of the Auxiliary Fire Service, on view at the Royal ...