... CINEMA. FILMS OF THE WEEK. By MICHAEL ORME. LIONEL BARRY- MORE'S beautiful portrayal of a country doctor's humble but by no means in glorious career in ONE MAN'S JOURNEY (Coliseum) lifts the pic ture above a mere study in sentiment and self- sacrifice to a vindica tion of the small-town practitioner whose hu manity fills in the gaps in his knowledge. Eli Watt's altruism continually thwarts ...

... Avarice and Arias The Late Christopher Bean St. James's THE tubercular Bean that was Christopher died owing his benefactor, the village Doctor, twenty pounds, and leaving behind a score of pictures. On the back of one, Ada Haggett, the Doctor's elder daughter, had perpetrated a monstrosity of buttercups. Some stopped leaks in chicken-houses and attic; the majority were eventually sentenced to ...

... By A. G. Maedonell MR. EDWARD SHANKS'S new novel, The Enchanted Village (Mac millan; 7s. 6d.), is about a single clay in the life of a hamlet of the Sussex Downland. The action begins at six o'clock in the evening of the great cricket match, the village against the team of gentlemen from London. It had been a terribly hot day in a terribly hot summer. It was in that month when, day after day, ...

... CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. THE STAGE. By J. T. GREIN. I. 44 FRESH FIELDS, AT THE CRITERION. NOW let me say this, first of all. At the Criterion you may see the finest acting in the world-- better than in Paris, better than in Berlin. Those two great actresses, Miss Lilian Braithwaite and Miss Ellis Jeffreys, have a kind of duel of female amenities that for distinction, subtlety, raillery, could not ...

... BOOKS Mr. Beverley Nichols makes his Appearance as a Pas sionate Pacifist Thug Suppressing the Religion of Murder in India By CECIL ROBERTS It would seem that we are still doubtful about Queen Victoria. Was she a great Queen, or a great nuisance, or both? Every year some industrious writer examines her correspondence, or the corre spondence of her relations or her Ministers, and according to ...

... PLAYS: The Acting Problem Head versus Heart The Burlesque of Sincerity Film and Pantomime News I By PHILII PAGE No less a person than Henry Irving was supposed I know not on what authority-- to have replied when asked what was a sincere actor, a d-- d bad one! Whether one agrees with that estimate or not I (and I do not agree with it) it raises an interesting I point. If Irving meant what he ...

... Books By CECIL ROBERTS Nazi Germany Means War Mr. Leland Stowe's Revealing Book Sir James Lacaita An Italian Who Became an Englishman An Excellent Memoir of Henry Scott Tuke If you wish to spend a really uncomfortable Christmas I can heartily recommend a book that will fill you with foreboding. After reading Mr. Leland Stowe's book, Nazi Germany Means War (Faber and Faber. 2s. 6d.), I felt ...

... ROOKS By CECIL ROBERTS Rhodes Praised and Indicted His Faith in Sir Starr Jameson His Only Mistake An unbiased Narrative from a South African Pen Monsoon, A First Novel: Richard Aldington Mellows his Ferocity in All Men Are Enemies It seems as if the world will never agree about Cecil Rhodes. There have been several biographies before this one by Mrs. Sarah Gertrude Millin, Rhodes (Chatto ...

... ROOKS By CECIL ROBERTS Extravagant Eulogies of George Moore and Inadequate Honour to John Galsworthy When America Might have had an African Colony Kept Man A Conventionally Unconven tional Novel The obituary notices on John Galsworthy must have caused many readers to have speculated upon literary fame. In the last fifteen years he has been regarded as the pre-eminent man of letters among the ...

... By CECIL ROBERTS John Ruskin, by R. H. Wilenski Another Great Vic torian Psycho-analysed The Journals of Arnold Bennett Matters of Outstanding Interest Amplified with a Mountain of Petty Gossip Walking the other day in the gardens around the enclosure of the Pre Catelan, in the Bois de Boulogne, I became a little shaken in my belief that the parks of London are unsurpassed. Perhaps it was ...

... : By CECIL ROBERTS The Life of Andrew Carnegie-- The Memory of an Extra ordinary Man receives Justice in an Engrossing Biography Far Vistas Adventures to Satisfy the Taste of even the Most Determined Wanderer Mayfair to Maritzburg An Autobiography by a Master of the Short Sketch Mr. Burton J. Hendrick made such an excellent job of The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page that I approached his ...

... Books By C E C I L ROBERTS Mr. Harold Nicolson's Vivid Picture of Post -War Politics Julius Caesar in the Light of Modern Research When I picked up Peacemaking, by Harold Nicolson (Con stable. 18s.), I feared that he was going to be wise after the event, that with Olympian detachment he would castigate the follies of statesmen, and take off their patent shoes to reveal the clay feet that ac ...