... A FAMOUS THEATRE THE TATLER AT THE THEATRE By ANTHONY COOKMAN WELL, if not yet famous, the Wind mill will be. Chu Chin Chow made theatrical history in the last war by running for one forgets how many nights. The Windmill, home of non-stop revue, makes that seem a comparatively easy feat by running blithely on through one forgets how many days of Blitzkrieg. Its intention, the management ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE Corrosive Criticism WHAT is there so particularly fascinating about Swiss Cottage that the fog clings to it with a faithfulness above all other faithfulnesses? I am told that during parts of the Christmas holiday all that part of Hampstead which lies above Swiss Cottage was clear as a bell, while even in Camden Town one could see one's hand before one's face. But the ...

... Round the New Shows At the Theatre Margin for Error (Apollo 8.25) MISS CLARE BOOTHE'S latest play is about the Nazis in New York, which it mightily amused. Whether London, where we are rather too near the Nazis to regard them as an unlimited source of fun, will be equally tickled, I rather doubt. Not that the sight of pompous people strutting about a stage, with guttural accents and a swastika ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE Maker and Material SOME little time ago I wrote an article on this page in which I said, not that film directing was unimportant, but that its importance was overrated. I gave the reader six films of world reputation and twelve lesser known films, and challenged him or her to name the director of each, supplying all the directors' names at the end of the article. lne ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE A NOBLE FILM OF THE NAVY CHARLES LAMB or some such essay ist once advocated allowing the street to air before one took one's morning walk. I hold the same with regard to picture palaces, always timing my arrival to coincide with a moment which occurs about ten minutes before the end of the first picture. This process almost luvaiiauiy piuves xiuw iignt a was lu miss ...

... THE CINEMA Bravo, Montgomery BY JAMES AGATE I REMEMBER some years ago making a bet having to do with the state of popular education. I was walking on a Sunday morning with a friend who lives in Clap ham, and he suggested that I should go to the saloon bar of any public house and ask six people how Charles I died. He was willing to bet that I should not get a single correct answer. I accepted ...

... Films of the Day Stewart and Laughton Get New Style Parts George Campbell BUT think of my position! moans Mischa Auer, gambling for his pants with Marlene Dietrich, in Destry Rides Again. I've met every king in Europe. Well, now you 've met two aces, retorts the queen of the dance-hall implacably, reaching for the stake and back to his infuriated wife goes the Yiddish cowboy in his long ...

... Armchair Trips to Africa and S. America Two Outstanding Travel Books and Interesting Novels in this Week's New Volumes -By Vernon Fane MR. NEGLEY FARSON is an American and a skilled journalist. His instinct for news of an unusual character at an unusual time led him to disembark at Dar-es-Salaam with the ultimate object of fetching up on the Gold Coast. BEHIND GOD'S BACK (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) ...

... LITERARY STYLISTS Escapists, Sophisticates and Raconteurs By Vernon Fane IN a newspaper the other clay I saw that among the persons listed in the United States as missing were seventy thousand husbands. With that interesting piece of information the news item stopped abruptly. The charitable view would, of course, be that the seventy thousand were all suffering from amnesia; but I am afraid ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. YOU may feel, of course-- some do-- that the art of Miss Mae West is not essential, possibly not even helpful, to the cinema, in which case you wouldn't dream of going to see MY LITTLE CHICKADEE, at the Odeon. But unless vou are positively allergic to Miss West, I think you will find this latest picture of hers a reasonably lively and spirited comedy of frontier life-- ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE Grand Tour is an undertaking one has always heard of; it suggests times more spacious as well as more peaceful than these; it is invested with romance; it is almost fabulous. But exactly what the exper ience consisted in, what it cost and, above all, what it felt like, most of us would be at a loss to imagine. Now, however, thanks to an inspired piece of guess work on ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. A PESSIMIST arguing that we live in an age of deterioration might well bring forward, in support of his thesis, the fate that has overtaken sport of nearly every description. Generally the root of the trouble is commercial isation; the spirit of gain has overpowered and absorbed the spirit of the game. In the case of mountaineering, the symp toms and perhaps the cause of ...