... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF ever there was a film that carried substan tial insurance at the box-office, it is ZIEGFELD GIRL (Empire, Friday). Ziegfeld Girl, if it adds very little to the esoterica of f i 1 m m ak i n g simply can't go wrong with the cus tomers. Costing round about a quarter of a million pounds (we can make it sound even more impressive in dollars), it is showy, shrewd and ...

... Fictional Finesses in Varied Form C. S. Foresters Yankee Hero; ]\[orah Hoult Guys the Deep South School A Tough Tyro; Sassoon and Saroyan Seltcted MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON VISITS THE CZECH FORCES IN BRITAIN The famous American journalise now visiting this country has just paid a visit to the Midlands to inspect Czech troops. She was accompanied by Mr. Jan Masaryk (Czech Foreign Minister on left ...

... By Herbert Farjeon This Year, Next Year ANY dramatic critic (or manager or theatrical author) who loves the theatre must have his dreams, if not of what the theatre should theoretically be, at any rate of what the theatre might practically include. In my own case, there are certain recurring dreams to which I find myself increasingly rather than diminish- ingly subject. Some of them, in view ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. FORREST REID'S criticism of books is, I suppose, a little old fashioned; he does not use terms such as integral or organic, and his attitude of mind is relaxed and meditative rather than tense and twanging. This is not because some of the essays collected in Retrospective Adventures were written a good many years ago, several in the nineteen- twenties and one or two ...