... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE Awav From It All J LAST week I had the luck to be invited to spend a few days in the country. In peace time one knows what this means-- the amenities of London plus the country air which one can always shut out by keeping the windows closed. Even so, there are some people who still cannot abide rustication. Like that witty American, O. Henry, they are kept awake at ...

... THE CINEMA A Batch of Winners By JAMES AGATE WHATEVER else is betiding, has betided or is about to betide, we shall remember the first half of October as a vintage period in the film world. In the last few days one new film after another has had brilliant direction, unusually satisfying acting, freshness, live interest, quality and speed. I think it is this last attribute of fastness, of ...

... THE CINEMA By JAMES AGATE First Nights in the Country THEY have been working all day, hundreds of them, thousands of them. They come back from their work in droves, so noiselessly that unless I am sitting at my window I should not know that half-past five has struck. For they are all on bicycles, and as they are all going one way not so much as the tinkle of a bell is heard. Now I know ...

... THE CINEMA Hollywood Catching Up By JAMES AGATE LAST week on this page I made some apparently rather distracted observa tions-- at least, an old and valued friend has since written to assure me that I wasn't quite myself!-- on Hollywood's con tribution these days and nights to our general cheer. Well, Hollywood has twice more con tributed, and has once again distracted me enough to make my pen ...

... THE CINEMA Overdoses By JAMES AGATE THERE has been quite a deal of dis cussion as to whether or no America has done and is doing all it can to make us win this war for freedom. So far as my own particular coign of film criticism is concerned, let me declare my opinion that America is behaving marvellously. We are all of us told that, unless we are actual war workers, the thing to do at this ...

... 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 ...