... The Cinema At the Tivoli By JAMES AGATE THE hypocritical English! Surely it is time that somebody drew attention to this phrase, and how damaging it is to the English heart while paying too much court to the English head. In the great gallery of Charles Dickens there are many hypocrites though of varying calibre. There is no finesse about Stiggins, whose attentions to Dineannle-rum and the ...

... The Cinema The Dreyfus Film By JAMES AGATE THE unhealed wound of the lost provinces and the spectre of another war were in 1894 ever present in the mind of every French patriot. What Frenchman-- soldier, politician, or bon bourgeois-- could be unaware of the menace of that young Emperor proclaiming militarism his god and prancing on a white horse and in shining armour up and down the further ...

... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE Her and There I AM ashamed to say that it was not until a recent Sunday that I made acquaintance with the work of the Film Society. Even then, owing to the difficulty of getting away from a luncheon-party, I only saw the last half of the programme at the Tivoli, which was M. André Gide's Voyage au Congo. The programme's description of this film ran as follows: The ...

... The Cinema A Lovely Film By JAMES AGATE THE film world is at the moment staggered by the kind of surprise which occurs so regularly in all the other arts that one would almost expect it to be looked for. That surprise is nothing less than this: that the public, or some of it, really does like the highest when it gets the chance to see it. The chance in these matters is everything. I have no ...

... The Cinema A Question for the Future By JAMES AGATE THE cinema world is wildly excited by something called the wide film. To many of us it has seemed that the present film, though not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door, served all reasonable needs. Then came the talkies, bringing in their train the need for a larger area of sound-track, the desire to remedy the curtailment of the ...

... The Cinema The Return of Kismet By JAMLES AGATE IF I had not been in an exceptionally good temper the other afternoon I think I must have walked out of the Leicester Square Theatre. This for two reasons. To begin with, for an eternity of, say some three minutes, the manager could not be found. Per haps I may remark here that when I go to the cinema for fun, which is often, nothing will induce ...

... THE CINEMA Seen and Unseen By JAMES AGATE NO, dea, readers of THE TATLER, I am not going to tell you what I think about Para mount's film-version at the Plaza of Mr. Noel Coward's Design for Living! The full title of this play, if I am to judge by the first act, should have been Design for Loose Living by a Woman of No Importance and Two Others. Mr. Coward's piece is obviously a trivial comedy ...

... The Cinema Three Films k By JAMES AGATE YEARS ago, in a comedy by Henry Arthur Jones, the young fop, whose mission in life was to be admonished by Sir Charles Wyndham, protested that he had never felt for the lady of title whose reputation that actor-manager was to save, anything in the nature of physical passion or culpable ardour. To this, in a great burst of indignation, Sir Charles was ...

... ENTERTAINMENTS d la CARTE By JLAN 3077 IT would not be quite true to say that Gordon Harker's face is his fortune; but, then, neither are the faces of Miss Garbo and Mr. Gable their whole fortune. Still, Mr. Harker's face, like the others, is worth its weight in minted gold. Beyond that, it is more distinc tive than, and at least as eloquent as. Mr. Gable's or Miss Garbo's. Once seen, it can ...

... THE CINEMA A Pronouncement By JAMES AGATE I AM now about to make the most important pronounce ment that has ever been made or ever will be made with reference to the representational arts by any critic from Aristotle to Miss Lejeune. Aristotle couldn't have made it, and my fair rival who revealed her age in the matter of Mr. Bernstein's Questionnaire is obviously too young to have attained the ...

... THE CINEMA The Petrified Forest By JAMES AGATE MR. LESLIE HOWARD has written me a charming letter which I feel it my duty to give here:-- Dear Mr. Agate,-- I know it is silly for an actor to answer back at his critics, but as you have done me, I am sure quite unwittingly, an injustice in your article in the current TATLER, I hope I may be allowed these words. I am sorry you did not guess ...

... THE CINEMA Nonsense and More Nonsense By JAMES AGATE THE other evening I turned into a little picture-house in Oxford Street to see the kind of entertainment offered to people who want to drop into a film casually. I was, as a matter of fact, stranded at Oxford Circus with an hour to spend and nowhere to go. It occurred to me that all over London there must be many thousands of people ...