... during his Paris period, his pen-pictures of well-known persons who have sat to him for their portraits. Among them are Joseph Conrad, Bernard Shaw, Augustus John, Cunninghame-Graham, Linstein, KaDinaranatn Tagore, Lord Fisher, Lord Beaverbrook, the Emperor ...

... CONRAD'S VICTORY AS A SCREEN THRILLER. 44 VICTORY, the screen play by John L. Balderston, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, is the new Paramount picture due at the Plaza on March 28. The hero, Heyst, is a philosopher who lives on the island of Sanburan ...

... CINEMA CAMEOS. By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE most unusual film of this or many weeks past is VICTORY (Plaza), from the Joseph Conrad novel of ideals and adven ture in the sticky South Seas. It is pos sibly a little more unusual than the producers reckoned for ...

... literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I could well believe that Mr. Guerard had studied the Brontes and Joseph Conrad, and that Mr. Wouk is an enthusiast about Sterne and Anatole France, while neither of them shows any sign of caring for ...

... 41, beating Tommy Pearson's thirty-year record by one try. The Edinburgh Dynamo women's football club^nust agree with Joseph Conrad's observation that being a woman is extremely difficult, because it consists principally in dealing with men. These ladies ...

... age of giants. A periodical which could have in its first number original contributions from Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, H. G. Wells, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and W. H. Davies, seems an almost fabulous thing ...

... (haber and haber 10s. bd.) THE VOICE OF THE CORPSE. By Max Murray. (Michael Joseph 8s. bd.) THE HEART OF THE MATTER. When Joseph Conrad died in 1924 there seemed to have died with him a whole literary tradition. He had no immediate followers and a stream ...