... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT doesn't surprise me in the least to learn that GONE WITH THE WIND is going like hot cakes at the Empire, Palace and Ritz. There never was a film, I suppose, that gave you so much for your money. For three hours and forty minutes it tears your emotions to rags, tosses you from crisis to crisis, involves you in war and panic and passion and suspense, gives you a bedside ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. ORIGINALITY is an im portant and exciting quality, but it does not necessarily make a good novel, and many good novels have been without it. True origin ality, I need hardly say, is something inherent in the writer's mind and imagination, and is to be distinguished from the experimentalism which often passes for it. No doubt some great artists have been experimentalists, ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. MR. LESLIE BANKS, for whose opinion on things dramatic I have the deepest respect, recently told me that of all the screen actors whose career he most ad mired Paul Muni came easily first. What terrific in- teeritv there is there he said. All the fine training of the Yiddish Theatre, and none of their tendency to over-emphasise. That 's a really great man, and I take off my ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 5. SHEPHARD'S PIE, AT THE PRINCES THEATRE. WELL, said Arthur, re signed and magnanimous, as you enjoyed the Leslie Henson show so very much, I've got us tickets for Firth Shep hard's other revue. It 's good of you, but don't be so deucedly condescending, protested Laura ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 4. UP AND DOING. AT THE SAVILLE THEATRE. T 'VE been to so I many revues with 'Up' in them, said Laura, a trifle un- gratefully. 'Lights Up!', 'Funny Side Up' --must we have another? Yes, said Moran firmly, because my uncle knows Firth Shephard and he 's given me the ...

... . 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 THEODORA BENSON >nd BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell ILLUSTRATED BY TOBOLSK!. No. 6. THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, AT THE HAYMARKET. BILL'S letter had arrived that morning, and Laura felt that (like Calais and Queen Mary) it would be found at her death graven on her heart. Elsie and I want you to be one of the first to know Elsie and I The quiet evening which ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE title of Mr. Ernest Rhys' autobiography-- Wales England Wed --is clumsy and to some extent misleading, for Mrs. Rhys was Irish. It was the author's mother who supplied the English strain. She was a Yorkshirewoman, as kind and sympathetic to her wayward son as' his father was the reverse. It is a long time ago since Ernest Rhys was young in years he was born in 1859, ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of*' Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 3. LIGHTS UP AT THE SAVOY THEATRE. ONE of the ad vantages of going to Mr. C. B. Cochran's revue Lights Up!, at the Savoy Theatre, is that it is only a moment's walk under cover to take you to the Savoy Grill. Short as the walk was, Laura had a feeling that Bill was ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE first story by Johan Fabricius, the Dutch novelist, to be trans lated into English was The Son of Marietta. It was an historical novel, a picture of eighteenth-century Italy, in which two ways of life, two civilisations almost, were con trasted: the first, agricultural and provincial, represented by the town of Todi-- small and unassuming, but the seat of an ...

... . By C. .A. LEJEUNE. IN a crazy world it 's almost a comfort to en counter anything as familiar as TYPHOON (Carlton), with palm- trees and pearl- hunters and Tech nicolor shipwrecks, J. Carrol Naish as a sinister native, and vood. honest Dorothy Lamour in a figure-form sarong. The idea with dramas of this kind and, judging by box-office results, it 's the right idea is to toss probability to ...