... Readers of this journal will have noticed, in recent issues, maps and diagrams in illustration of out standing achievements by the R.A.F. in reaching distant bombing objectives. Such maps, we learn, have aroused speculation as to the bombers' points of departure from Great Britain and the exact route followed in reaching let us say countries such as Italy. It is necessary, therefore, to point ...

... Starred by The Sketch. *=highest value. Adelphi: THE DANCING YEARS. Ivor Novello in his romantic musical play, with Muriel Barron and Roma Beaumont. ♦♦♦Aldwych: WATCH ON THE RHINE. Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Athene Seyler and Valerie Taylor. Anti-Nazis in the U.S.A. Ambassadors L I G H T AND SHADE. Herbert Farjeon revue. Betty Ann Davies, Max Adrian, Joyce Grenfell. Apollo: FLARE ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. FRIENDS who have recently come back from America assure me that EAGLE SQUADRON (Leicester Square) is an important picture, emphasising the solidarity of Anglo-American relations. Whether that is any justifica tion for the film to be relatively unimportant as a work of art I don't know, but it is as good a reason as any other for putting it at the head of this page. ...

... A CLOSE SEASON (or CORRESPONDENTS? Washington and Dirty Linen, and Unity and Foreign Correspondents The Money Grubbing Vigour of the Victorians Major Jarvis Laughs in Libya Pearl Binder's Charming Russians -By Vernon Fane WHILE American history (revised version) is being taught in our schools and a large number of American young men in uniform are being taught that tea is tea, and not a ...

... -By Vernon Fane The Identity of David Pilgrim Eric Knight's War Novel Evan John on a Commando Raid C. G. Grey's Challenging Book on Bombers FROM the wrapper of NO COMMON GLORY (Mac millan. 9s.), it appears that the author, Mr. David Pilgrim, is a schizophrenic. He exists, in fact, in the personalities of Mr. St. George Saunders, who wrote the famous pamphlet on the Battle of Britain, and Mr. ...

... . Starred by The Sketch. *=highest value. Ambassadors: OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES. Superb evacuee comedy. Mary Clare; Phyllis Dare. Apollo 44 OLD ACQUAINTANCE. Edith Evans in John van Druten's play. Perfect acting. Comedy 44 RISE ABOVE IT, Second Edition. Burlesque revue with Hermione Baddeley Her- mione Gingold Walter Crishain Henry Kendall. Garrick: WARN THAT MAN. Gordon Harker foils a ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. CURTAIN UP is the auto biography of a dramatist. Few lives-- especially lives as far from completion as (we hope) Mr. Lennox Robinson's is-- have the attributes of form and construction which would turn them into a play, nor has Mr. Robinson's, although for conveni ence' sake he divides it into three Acts. But both' in its background and its foreground, drama, or the ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. My GAL SAL, the Techni color musical comedy at the Odeon, is about the last thing in the world I should have associ ated with Theodore Dreiser, author of An American Tragedy. Yet Drei ser wrote this little bit of fluff, this storv of a philandering, showy, notorious song-writer of the 'nineties. Reason Song-writer was Dreiser's brother. He signed himself Paul Dresser. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THOSE Boulting twins, the youngest pro ducer-director team in England, and to my knowledge the only geminal pro ducer-director team anywhere in the world, seem cer tainly to have got what it takes to make interesting pictures. The twins have only made two major films. Ihe first was Pastor Hall, which won them repute, if not profuse financial gain. The second is THUNDER ...

... : j Reviewed by Noel Thompson IN these days of mechanical output it is pleasant to sit down and read an enjoyably pedestrian book. Such is Lion Feucht wanger's latest historical novel, The Day Will Come (Hutchinson, 9s. 6d.). With this book he completes his trio about Josephus, the Jewish historian, of which the earlier two were Josephus and The Jew of Rome. Feuchtwanger has the knack of ...

... Playbill Looks at the Shows Shakespeare at the Strand I AM indeed glad to hear-- and on two occasions I have been able to see for myself-- that Mr. Donald Wolfit's Shakespearean season at the Strand Theatre is being well supported by the public. The Vic- Wells company have not been to the fore of late, except for a short season at the New Theatre, with King John. That revival had its virtues, ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Variety Metropolitan THERE comes a time when, after many comedies, tragedies, farces, revues, plays, highbrow and lowbrow, productions intimate and super, one pines for a whiff of variety. Max Beerbohm broadcasts on the old days in the music halls. Robert Lynd follows up with an essay. My hat! What memories! By the teeth of Marie Lloyd, by the feet of Little Tich, by George ...