... , by Alfred Tennyson (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.). Although there is a good deal to be said for not unearthing work which its writers have rejected, we can only be grateful to Mr. Char ...

... Ambrose Holt and Family, by Susan Glaspell. (Gollancz, 7s. 6d.) Winter Comedy, by Sylvia Thompson. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) The Concave Mirror, by W. B. Maxwell. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) Th ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE THE TRAFALGAR. Once upon a time the Trafalgai Restaurant was the grill-room, or porhaps tho billiard-room, of the Grand Hotel. To-day, under the management of B. Vercelli and his two brothers, it is one of the most popular first-class restaurants in the West End. Within a few B weeks, however, it will change its D name to Ohantilly, thereby relin- t quishing the right ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. CHANTILLY, Once known as the Trafalgar this restaurant, which is now under the direction of E. G. Vercelli and his brothers, has father an enviable position, inasmuch as it might be said to be in the sacred precincts of Whitehall, a place full of brass hats and all sorts of nig guns. It can tap another useful section of society via the MalL A great attraction is ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE HOLIDAY The sudden heat wave and glorious weather on Monday threw a monkey-wrench into the holiday machinery of hotel, restaurant, and club cabaret. London--that is to say, the London that mostly has the cash to indulge in dinner and supper amusement--had dashed away at the first sign of the sun, and dinner tables that should have been crowded were desolate, ...

... THE BOOKS YOU READ Are the English human? A Dutchman has his doubts The English Are they Human by Dr. G. J. Renier (Williams Norgate, 7s. 6d.) All Passion Spent, by V. Sackville-West Hogarth Press, 7s ...

... COLLECTING MODERN BOOKS Prices, pleasures and pitfalls in the first-edition hobby Modern First Editions Points and Values, by Gilbert Fabes. (Foyle, out of print.) Modern First Editions Points and Val ...

... Our Qpt'°u$ Onc on CHELSEA FOLLIES (The Victoria Palace). THOUGH the expansive Victoria Palace is hardly adapted to intimate acting, it is exactly suited to the broad fun of Nervo and Knox, the knockabout comedians who dominate this revue from start to finish. Indeed, when they are off the stage the audience is inclined to sit awaiting their return, more in resignation during the interval ...

... 4t the Sign of the Cinema. By MICHAEL ORME. TO acclaim Song of the Alps (Marble Arch Pavilion) as greater than The White Hell of Pitz Palu-- as has been done-- is, to my mind, to stultify appreciation from the outset. Except for the fact that both films are set amidst the pictorial grandeur and immensity of the Alps and are without dialogue, they are in no wise comparable. In The White ...

... More All-British Talkies By L ionel C oilier BRITISH films are continually gaining ground and their technical qualities improv ing. The talkies have, contrary to general expectation, materially im proved our position in the home market. I had looked forward, therefore, to Lupino Lane's full- length feature, Never Trouble Trouble, but it cannot be re garded as anything other than ...

... 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 ...