... THE CINEMA Personally Speaking By JAMES AGATE ONE of the strong est pulls the cinema has over the theatre is the fore knowledge that from the film goer not the most fractional bit of cerebration will be required. Let the attention wander in the theatre ...

... THE CINEMA Penny-plain Speaking By JAMES AGATE THE other day I read that the captivating Mile. Anna bella is in England and that she had been discovered by an interviewer in the new studios at Denham looking strangely pale and surrounded by cameras and ...

... Rosalind is Rosalind at all. It may be, and in Miss Bergner's case it is, an enchanting some thing else. This clever actress now speaks the English language remarkably well, yet with a German quality which takes all the Shakespeare out of the verse. This is ...

... instal ment refers not only to the war, but also to the author's own efforts to further the growth and spirit of the English Speaking Union. It is not an easy book to describe perhaps it may be called a record of public events as seen by a man of definite ...

... from the skyscraper, the judge will speak the Acquittal Ending fur nished by the American author. If, on the other hand, you condemn her, deciding that the body was a corpse before it emerged from the window, he will speak the Electric Chair Ending, alternatively ...

... speech was possible was proved by Mr. Derrick de Marney, and later by Mr. Charles Carson. In addition, the music was, roughly speaking, six times the volume of anything to be heard in the Queen's Hall. I am not a technical expert. But if any body tells me ...

... three stools, and makes rather a graceful gymnastic feat out of it in the process. It is not (strictly speaking, or for the benefit of those who still speak strictly) a travel book it is scarcely a critical survey of Spanish history from the time of the Moors ...

... telescoped events to a degree that makes them faintly ludicrous. Curti, who cannot speak English, has five minutes' conversation, mostly by signs, with the girl, who cannot speak Italian she hears him sing a lullaby to the child they converse for about three ...

... game they had learned in far-off gardens. In a little while those shadows would grow graver, deeper, and colder, and would speak to her in their unknown tongue of the secrets that would soon be hers whom does Miss Sitwell hope to impress by repeated passages ...

... Mind (Hutchin son, 7s. 6d.) must surely be, by a good many pages, the longest novel Mr. Stephen McKenna has yet written. Speaking generally, I should be sorry to think that so intelligent a writer as Mr. McKenna has been led, by his public or his publisher ...

... Lost City of Atlantis, where, after some various bicker ings with fishes, they en counter an urbane citizen of Atlantis who speaks per fect English. Really, Mr. Wheatley I mean to say. On the jacket of the book there is the announcement that he has another ...

... said, there is no denying that however irritated you may be at Mr. Nichols's writing, you want to go on reading him. And that speaks volumes and sells them. When I see Mr. J. L. Hardy's name on the cover of a book I know that I am in for an exciting time ...