... . 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. WHETHER THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (Gaumont) strikes you as just about the best film of the sea you have ever seen, or as a rather sordid recital of raw life between the devil and the deep, I can promise you one thing you won't be able to forget it. I should hate to have to prophesy what The Long Voyage Home will do at the box-office. It may prove to be too tough for the times. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WHEN Katharine Hepburn and the film industry parted brass-rags just over two years ago, no one would have pre dicted that the actress would be back so soon, breaking records in the very picture-houses where they once called her box-office poison. Yet that is exactly what has happened with THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. The Philadelphia Story, after 416 performances in the ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. NOW that the Aid to Britain Bill is through, and America is all geared to help Britain in her war-effort, I can't help wishing that our good friends across the Atlantic would slip in just one spiritual comfort amongst the planes and guns and food and ammunition-- a copy of Walt Disney's film FANTASIA. I want to see Fantasia as I have seldom wanted to see and hear any ...

... . i By L. P. HARTLEY. THE European spring of Miss Clare Boothe's title is the fateful spring of 1940, and her subject the international situation before and during the onslaught of the German armies on their Western neighbours. Before me as I write is a detail of Paul Veronese's picture The Rape of Europa a lovely thing, sumptuous, luxurious, grand the heroine of the episode looks slightly ...