... Films of the Day Strong Spring Makes Watery Coffee By George Campbell IF the credit-list is evidence, My Son, My Son! is good. After dazing you with Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, twenty-four other stars and featured players, the producer, director and original author, it goes on: Screen Play Lenore Coffee Photography Harry Stradling, A.S.C. Dialogue Director Stanley Logan Art ...

... By V. S. Pritchett THE autobiography of Constancia de la Mora, In Place of Splendour (Michael Joseph; 12s. 6d.), is a delightful, intimate and spirited account of the struggle of a rich and beautiful Spanish girl to get out of the Spanish Doll's House of upper-class life in Madrid before the civil war. I doubt if many people in England can imagine exactly what that life was like indeed, to the ...

... . 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 ...

... THE GALLIC TOUCH French Authors in Form This Week --By Vernon Fane I HAVE read three detective stories this week, two of them by a Frenchman and one by an American lady, and I must say, with more honesty than chivalry, that the French product is infinitely the better. In fact, since the stories are by M. Georges Simenon it may be said that they are in a class by themselves, and almost hors ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon Peril at End House Vaudeville THE ideal solution in a detective play takes you completely by sur prise and makes you feel a fool not to have thought of it; combining, like all the best things in the theatre, the un expected with the inevitable. What, however, usually hap pens in a detective play is that you guess the answer or, being told the answer, don't see ...

... . 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, ...

... The Theatre By Herbert Farjeon Garrison Theatre (London Palladium) IT would be well not to go to this show if you have a headache-- unless you want to boast that it didn't give you one. Seldom can there have been such a continuous racket inside a theatre-- blaring brass that splits the ears-- super-blasting microphones cal culated to take the deaf by storm comedians roaring wisecracks above ...

... . 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 ...

... THE CINEMA BY JAMES AGATE Vintage Guitry HOW sick one gets of the film's eternal wisecracking! And how delightful it is to move once again in a world of well bred wit! In Ils Etaienl Neuf Celibalaires, now showing at Studio One, M. Sacha Guitry plays a boulevardier who is not quite a gentle man but is certainly not anything else-- he wears the clothes of a crook-- vivid yellow tie against sea ...

... THE CINEMA BY JAMES AGATE The Postman Always Rings Twice THE other evening I was having supper at the Cafe Royal when a couple came in and sat down at the next table. Any where between twenty and thirty, the pair-- they were both men-- looked as though they might be stevedores or lorry drivers. But so definitely did they make me think of something not English but American that, in discussing ...