... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THERE is going to be a lot of fuss over the screen treatment of Rachel Field's ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO! (Warner), but per sonally I find myself on the side of the screen-writers. You will remember that Miss Field's long novel fell into two parts. The first dealt with the life of a nineteenth- century French governess in Paris. It described how Henriette Desportes, just ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THERE was a time when a man of learning could make all knowledge his province. I imagine that in the seventeenth century it was still physically possible for one man to read all the books that had ever been written. How wonderful to know all there was to be known on any subject! Perhaps Francis Bacon was in that happy position. Shakespeare notoriously was not. Ben Jonson, ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. LOVE ON THE DOLE, which you can see at the Odeon this week, is a very moving transcription of Walter Green wood's Lancashire play. It is the story ot the mill hands and their families in any Lancashire town, but in parti cular the story of the Hardcastles of Hankey Park father, mother, daughter Sally and eighteen-year-old brother Harry. Pennies are scarce enough in Hankey ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE most startling film-- with the possible excep tion of Our Town-- to come out of America since the Coward- Hecht-McArthur Scoundrel is in- town this week. The title is CITIZEN KANE, and you can, and should, see it at the Gaumont. It is the brain-child and hand-work of twenty-six-year-old American Orson Welles, who goes in for .startling things. Welles, as you may ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE New Gallery, I suppose, will again be the Mecca of parents with children to entertain these Christmas holi days. The new Disney Christmas annual is out, and it's called DUMBO, and proves to be the simple, gaudy, straightforward sort of thing that children expect from Disney, without any disturbing innovations. Dumbo is a baby elephant, an innocent, blue-eyed baby born ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. AS Mr. Epstein sculpts, so does he write, without fear and, I was going to add, without favour; but this would not be entirely true. Disguise the fact as he may, every man is his own favourite, and Mr. Epstein, besides being his own biographer, is also his own apologist, or, it would be fairer to say, the apologist of his art. Ut himself he writes with admirable ...

... . Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1941 has just been published. It is one of the most useful of all books of reference, as it is a handy volume, which occupies a small amount of space 011 the writing-desk, and yet it contains over 30,000 biographies arranged in alphabetical order. Many of these will not be found in other reference books, as Kelly's includes not ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB is a sequel to the author's Ser geant Lamb of the 9th, and it carries Lamb's story to the end of the War of American Independence. He fought in six battles; Guildford Court House was the last. Yet [he observes] I was by no means yet at the end of my wanderings, and I may affirm without boasting or fear of contradiction that, before I had done, the ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE Prime Minister of THE PRIME MINISTER, at Warner's Theatre this week, is not the one that most people will expect from the title, but Benjamin Disraeli. Or, rather. three Mr. Disraelis, covering all sixty of those glorious vears that Miss Neagle has told us so much about.- Young Mr. Disraeli looking like Mr. John Gielgud. Middle-aged Mr. Disraeli looking like Mr. ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. ERIC LINKLATER'S autobiography, The Man on My Back, starts so many hares that one scarcely knows which to follow. Mr. Linklater's body is as active as his mind-- and if we follow that, setting off from his native Orkney, we shall have traversed a large part, and perhaps the most interesting part, of the globe. Mr. Linklater lived in India and America in India as a ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. PROPHECY in show business is always a rash affair, so I am only going to say that I think -- I think -- I have found a new face on the screen this week with a big future. Said face belongs to a young Dutch actor, one Philip Dorn, and the film in which you will see it is ESCAPE (Empire). Mr. Dora plays a Nazi doctor in a concentration camp. It isn't a very big part that he ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE reaction of most English people to the collapse of France in face of the German invasion was one of stupefaction and bewilderment. Afterwards that reaction changed, in some cases to indignation, in others to sympathy, or sorrow; but the majority of us are still puzzled and eager for enlightenment. No sensible person wishes to accumulate more enemies than he need which ...