... Continued. J Mrs. Harrison-Beddoes, who queened it in the foreign colony, and kept her position with the help of a sharp tongue and a faculty for ferreting out other people's affairs and Robin Rattray, who was not his father's son. To them enter four others Clive Markham, Robin's real father, intent on persuading his sister to return to England and help him to manage the country house he had ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT must be nearly four years now since M.-G.-M. pencilled PRIDE AND PREJU DICE into their schedule as a vehicle for Norma Shearer. Four years in the film industry is a long time, and the surprise, now that the film does turn up (at the Empire), is not so much that Miss Shearer should not be in it, but that the picture should have been made at all. Few films that are ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THIS is surely Our Girls' Week in the West End cinema. Vivien, Rosalind, Mary and Maureen-- four such personable and talented young people, in theatres so close together that you could almost use them for a game of rounders. Our Miss Vivien, in fact, achieves the unusual feat of appearing in two adjacent theatres simultaneously-- at the Little Ritz, where she is still, ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. MARTIN ARM STRONG is one of our most enjoyable short-story writers, and lovers of that art will always look forward to a new volume from his versatile and talented pen. They will not be disappointed in Simplicity Jones. It maintains his reputation, which was always high, for quality and craftsmanship, and ex tends his range. Several pieueb 111 Llllo UUUJv, LLIC LI Lie ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. AS one who believes that screen children, as a race, should be strangled at birth, I am delighted to have found a screen child this week who is both talented and appealing. Her name is Betty Brewer, her age is thirteen, and the film in which she appears is RANGERS OF FORTUNE (Plaza). This, the only new film of the week, is a roystering melodrama of the Great South-West in ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MODERN poetry does not as a rule wear its meaning on its sleeve any more than it wears its heart; in some cases both take a lot of finding. One reason why we welcome this new book of poems by Mr. Herbert Asquith, Youth in the Skies, is that here heart and mean ing are discernible at a glance. Meaning is not like a jewel, valuable in proportion to the difficulty of finding ...