... J The Literary Lounger. By L. P. Hartley. p lii U Wj II 1 1 Sturm und Drang. Theoretically I am in sym pathy with those novels in which the characters are portrayed as on the brink of despair, in which they search their souls and apostrophise Heaven, in which they think nothing of sitting up all night if they feel jubilant or ex cited or depressed, in which they count the world outside as a ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i. ALMOST A HONEYMOON, AT THE GARRICK. IT is about time that somebody wrote a good play for that clever couple, Miss Renée Kelly and Mr. Hylton Allen, and one in which this character- actor of quality and insight has something more to do than to excite facile laughter as a high and mighty butler at the beck and call of his eccentric master, the ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i FOLLY TO BE WISE/' AT THE PICCADILLY. AFTER more than three hours of this gigantic revue I feel a little like the boy who plucked so many raisins and currants from the plum-tart and then had tummy-ache. That is the only fault of this charming entertainment-- over-abundance, which to a certain extent, towards the end, fatigues the reviewer and bemuddles ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. 1. FANFARE, AT THE PRINCE EDWARD. FANFARE is full of pep, but would be all the better for a little pepper and salt. Mr. Dion Titheradge had the novel idea of a revue in magazine form, but it stopped at that, and soon became the olla-podrida of a continuous variety entertainment, brilliant, good, and indifferent-- brilliant whenever Miss Violet Loraine ...

... The Literary Lounger. By L. P. Hartley. The Real Navy. The Navy is no place for a lounger, but it has its literary associations, so that I can browse among the pages of Com mander Kenworthy's book without the feeling of committing a trespass. Even seamen have their leisure moments, when, in their own parlance, they take a stretch off the land. This odd fivnre of snpwh means, strangely enough ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. 8 V I. THE SEARCHER. AT THE GRAFTON. OF all people in the world, your highbrow is the easiest to take in. Sprawl your play in a shapeless cloud, with little form and substance, fill it with high-sounding phrases and the fustian of words, pack it with chants and drum-beats full of sound and fury signifying nothing, and she falls for it at once. Isn't it too marvellous? ...

... AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA. GENERAL RELEASES, APRIL 28. HOT FOR PARIS. THE popular combination of the he man (Victor McLaglen) and the gentle little comedian (El Brendel) has been carefully considered in the scenario of Hot for Paris. Borrowing its hectic atmosphere and broad humour from its famous pre decessor. The Cock-eyed World, the picture has very little story to speak of. It ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. r a i. NAUGHTY CINDERELLA, AT THE COMEDY. THIS farce is almost indescribable. It is full of extraordinary situations, full of innuendos which may sound piquant in French but are not too pleasant to the English ear. Yet the audience liked it, for there is always a public for the naughty- naughty. To cut a long story short--Gerald is fond of Mrs. Fenton, ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. 1. THE NELSON TOUCH, AT THE ST. MARTIN'S. THE game of high politics, both in fact and in fiction, has ever a touch of the fantastic to give it a cachet, and Mr. Neil Grant, seeing in its audacities scope for gay, ironical comment, has invented an ingenious stage crisis and exploited it with such spirit that we accept the puppets to enjoy their diverting ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. 1. APRON STRINGS, AT THE VAUDEVILLE. AS the stately Miss Diana Wilson, in the character of a friend of the family, said: Daniel Curtis is a fish. And so he was. He had been mother's boy, the son of one of those wiseacres who, an author by profession, plied all the world with good advice on all questions in the columns of her paper. She stuffed the boy ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. i. LATE NIGHT FINAL, AT THE PHCENIX. AS Mr. Louis Weitzenkorn is reputed to be an American journalist, we may take it for granted that his picture of the office of a New York tabloid paper is substantially correct. If so, let us say Thank goodness things are not managed that way on this side of the Atlantic. It is not an edifying spectacle, if ...

... . By MICHAEL ORME. ANYBODY'S WOMAN (Plaza) has two feminine stars. For, out of Gouverneur Morris's story, that is essentially of the theatre rather than the screen, Dorothy Arzner, its director, has succeeded in making something that is at least cinematic in a pictorial sense, though her series of beautifully composed and lighted photographs are always static and sometimes over-staged. The ...