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October 1941
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CINEMA CAMEOS

... . 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2487 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

The Theate: The Nutmeg Tree (Lyric)

... The Nutmeg Tree (Lyric) By Herbert Farjeon THE trouble about Julia, as confessed by herself with a sigh more than once in the course of this comedy, was that she was weak. When handsome men wanted to kiss her, she found it difficult to resist them. And having knocked about as a chorus-girl in all sorts of shows, she wasn't very particular as to class, even when it was important that she should ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 769 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

VIVID ACCOUNTS OF THE NAZI SCOURGE: William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary; The Polish Angle; A Professor Witnesses ..

... Vivid Accounts of the Nazi Scourge William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary The Polish Angle A Professor Witnesses the Subjugation of Tforway A Third Issue of Modern Reading -By Vernon Fane I WONDER how many people could have forecast with any accuracy the course that radio would take in this war. By that I do not mean the develop ment of radiolocation and all those kind of things, but of ordinary ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1388 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS EDITH SITWELL'S new anthology of poems, Look! the Sun, is intended, she tells us, primarily for children; but, she adds, readers of all ages will, I hope, derive happiness from it. This raises the fascinating question, what is it in poetry that children like? Should we, for instance, expect them to like the poetry of Wordsworth, who himself reverenced children, as ...