... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS VICKI BAUM writes from a hard head and a soft heart. She needs a hard head to do justice to the moral and mental equipment of her characters, who are nearly all, in one way or another, out for what they can get. Espe cially is this the case in Central Stores, her latest pantechnicon novel. From Mr. Crosby, who owns the controlling interest in the busi ness, to Philipp ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. HONEYMOONS or cowboys are the thing in the West End cinemas this week-- or, rather, honey- moons and cowboys, for the lads with the Stetson and the gun, too, have their gentler moments. Honey moon Number One, without cowboy, is the Lord Peter Wimsey piece at the Empire. This film, BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON, was the last to be made at Denham by Metro-Gold wyn- Mayer before they ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 22. THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED, AT THE LYRIC. OH, Anthony, darling, sighed Laura over the telephone, no, I've got to dine in Daddy's got some people I'm so very disap pointed Let's make it one day next week. Pretty frock, observed Laura's father. Who 's it to ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. BEHIND GOD'S BACK is the story of Mr. Negley Farson's seven months' sojourn in Africa. Sojourn is perhaps a mis leading word. Most of the time Mr. Farson was on the move; his longest and most important journey took him from coast to coast, from Dar es-Salaam on the east to Duala on the west, right through the heart of Equatorial Africa. He travelled bv air. bv water. by ...

... , By C. A. LEJEUNE. EDWARD G. ROBINSON fans who go to the Warner Theatre this week, to see the star in THE MAGIC BULLET are likely to have a sur prise. In spite of the title, this is neither a gangster film nor a fantasy, but a particularly sober autobiography of Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the Berlin bacteriologist who gave us Salvarsan. Magic bullets, the film explains, are the chemicals shot into ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE POOL OF VISHNU brings to a close the intricate and absorbing romance the evolution of which has occupied Mr. Myers' mind and imagination for so many years. It is a work without parallel in English fiction, difficult to describe to those who have not read the earlier instalments, not easy to discuss with those who have. For it has many asnects. historic, religious, ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. ESCAPE from the world and its cares was never a very easy or practic able business, and it is less so than ever to-day, when the securest-seeming ivory towers are in danger of being bombed. And the imagination, which can never be wholly uninfluenced by world conditions, finds it increasingly difficult to con ceive a state of affairs in which physical, to say nothing of ...