... CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. THE STAGE. By J. T. GRE1N. I WAS nine years old when I saw EAST LYNNE for the first time, in Amsterdam; people around me were crying, and I shed synchronic tears. Much later-- a budding critic in London-- I saw it again, and if the tears were not as copious, the sobs and sighs dimmed the other side of the stalls, especially when the boy died in tuberculosis and Lady ...

... : By A. G. Macdonell MR. J. B. PRIESTLEY took his type writer, a minimum of clothes, three books, some pipes, and a seat in a motor-coach, and set out to see England. What he saw he has written down in English Journey (Heinemann and Gol lancz; 8s. 6d.). He began at Southampton and saw the old West Gate through which the troops marched when they were on their way to Crécy and Agincourt, and ...

... 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 ...

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... : Mr. A. G. Macdonell Traces the Varied Fortunes of Napoleon's Marshals and Reveals Them as an Unprincipled Gang of Thieves and Adventurers Mr. Sinclair Lewis Introduces Us to the Hotel Business Mill Life in the West Riding Provides the Background for Miss Phyllis Bentley's Latest Novel By CECIL ROBERTS There are still new worlds to conquer, even in literature. There have been hun dreds of ...

... THE WORLD OF BOOKS: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre A Firsf-rate Adventure Story A War Correspondent's Account of the Foreign Legion A Publisher's Reminiscences Reviewed by V ernon Fane I GATHER from Messrs. Chatto and Windus that Herr B. Traven has a considerable inter national reputation, and that the novel to which I am about to direct your atten tion has already been published i five ...

... By CECIL ROBERTS Why Mr. Somerset Maugham, the High Priest of Cynicism, Prefers to be a Novelist Rather than a Dramatist: A Wine Connoisseur Tells Us What We Should Know Mrs. R. M. Hopkinson Attempts to Defend Queen Anne's Reputation Happy Retrospect, Count Wilczek's Portrait of a Wealthy Aristocrat of the Francis-Joseph Regime in Austria In the preface to the final volume of the handsome ...

... Books By CECIL ROBERTS The figure of Paderewski is that of the last of the romantics. He does not quite belong to this age, and for the last ten years he has been legen dary. Was he a great pianist? asks the new generation. The concert hall frenzy, the hysterical women, the tearful men, the crowds at the hall doors, the worshippers waiting in the vestibule of the hotel, the great lorry with ...

... Plays of the Hour Reviewed PHILIP PAGE First-Rate Team Work in the New Cochran Revue at the Palace Josephine A Dull and Silly Play Yes, Madam Bright and Amusing Entertainment with Binnie Hale and Bobby Howes as the Principal Attractions IT HAS BEEN said, I think wrongly, that the ideal revue should contain elements suited to all tastes. Streamline, which is Mr. Cochran's twenty-first revue, ...

... o Plays of the Hour Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE Owen Nares Scores a Success with Lover's Leap Noel Coward as Producer Some Good Acting in Line Engaged at the Duk^e of York's Theatre WITH the theory that the actor-manager system is a bad thing for the theatre I have never agreed, nor could I join in the whoops of joy with which signs of its disappearance were greeted some years ago. The actor- ...

... Sydney Howard as a Yorkshire Grocer Who Becomes a King The Passing of Sir Arthur Pinero and Julian Wylie 11 The Moon is Red An Unexciting Defective Thriller at Daly's Reviews by PHILIP PAGE IN 1911 I saw a pleasant play at the Royalty Theatre entitled Half-a-Crown, of which I remember but little beyond the fact that in it a charming young lady from musical comedy made her straight debut. ...

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