... . Starred by The Sketch. highest value. WATCH ON THE RHINE (Aldwych). Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Athene Seyler, Margar etta Scott. Anti-Nazis in U.S. 44 FLARE PATH 44 (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. BLITHE SPIRIT 44 (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. 44 PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX 44 (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THERE is good news this week for all the good people who have written from time to time to ask, Can't we please have a revival of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'? Beauti fully in time for the Christmas holidays, the most beloved of all Disney films comes back to the New Gallery. I make it my Number One item on this page, because I feel sure it will be the Number One ...

... . Starred by The Sketch. h ighest 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, Mar- Karetta Scott. Anti-Nazis in the U.S.A. Ambassadors A LITTLE BIT OF FLUFF. Revival with Henry Ken dall, Chili Bouchier, Olga Lindo. Apollo: FLARE PATH. R.A ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS EDITH SITWELL has made an antho logy of aphorisms re lating to poetry and the other arts, with annotations and comments by herself. She calls it A Poet's Notebook. It is a great privilege to be given a bouquet of blooms plucked from the garden of this most gifted poet, their hues and perfumes inter mingling to form an analogy or metaphor for the character of her own ...

... -By Vernon Fane Philip Guedallas Story of Two French Defeatists Sanitational Searchings A Documented History of Convoys A 7S lew Novel by Lady Cynthia Asquith Frederick Niven's 18th 'Century Tapestry A Simple, yet Ingenious, Thriller MR. PHILIP GUEDALLA, in his foreword to THE TWO MARSHALS (Hod der and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.), writes: This book is more than the story of two French soldiers, ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE MASTER BUILDER.-- Has any dramatist ever written a more baffling play than this? Does the keenest student of the high-brow drama know what it is driving at? Did Ibsen himself really know what he was driving at? As a tale it is comparatively simple --about a bad-tempered architect, jealous of the rising generation, with a wife depressed because her two babies had ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. WHERE Love and Friendship Dwelt is a sequel to I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia-- not an immediate sequel, how ever, for Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, passing over her girlhood, most of which she spent in England, and not all of -which she enjoyed, takes up her tale with her return- to La Celle St. Cloud at the age of seventeen. She had already made up her mind to becoine a writer a ...

... Heartbreak House (Cambridge) By Horace Horsnell THIS loquacious play may not be Shaw's masterpiece, but it has magnificent pass ages. It is described as a fantasy in the Russian manner on English themes. That description serves; though it might be even more aptly described as a symposium in the Peacock manner on Shavian themes. Its form, of course, is much less rigid than Peacock's, its ...

... By Horace Horsnell A Little Bit of Fluff (Ambassadors) A THOROUGH farce, once in a way, does no one any harm. It clears the mind of cant, and refreshes one's sense of humour. That is if it rollicks, and does not dabble in mere persiflage. Its speech should be free, its action lively. The slapstick need not be spared. The characters may be larger than life, but their misfortunes, though dire, ...

... By Horace Horsnell The Moon is Down (Whitehall) COMPARISONS between the various war plays now running in the West End need not be odious. Each justifies pro duction on other than merely topical grounds. They differ widely in theme and treatment, and their appeal is due less to their concern with war than to the personal fortunes of their characters. This is as it should be; for they are plays, ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Adult and Juvenile By James Agate OUT of the blue or the cellars of Studio One, which amounts to very much the same thing, comes Derrière la Facade, a small French film so good that it takes all Hollywood's monster productions between finger and thumb and puts them into a sack, which it then deposits in the Atlantic half-way between Hollywood and the port of entry into ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Ring me up, Wait! By James Agate APROPOS of the balloon Dr. Johnson said: We now know a method of mounting into the air, and, I think, are not likely to know more. I had now rather find a medicine that can ease an asthma. We now know a great deal about aeroplanes and are likely, I think, to know a great deal more. All the same, I had rather now find a method of ...