... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE KING LEAR (St. James's).-- To say, with truth, that there is now a boom in Shake speare does not lessen the courage of Mr. Donald Wolfit in deciding to bring to a close his season at the St. James's Theatre with some perform ances of King Lear. Of all Shakespeare's plays, this is in every respect the most formidable. I have seen a fair number of famous players in the ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE author of Escape has written another novel, with a somewhat similar theme. But this time Miss Vance's scene is laid in a Breton village in France-- Occupied France. There is more than one flash-back; we have a glimpse of Paris on the eve of the German occupa tion, another of the roads to the south, crowded with refugees and made hideous by German bombers. But as the ...

... BOOKS FOR ALL TASTES -By Vernon Fane Harold AJicolson Runs the Ancestral Gamut Mining and Farming in South America The Tactics of Bomber Command Lady Eleanor Smith's Romantic Gipsies Aunt Julie's Will AN Irish rebel, vintage 179S, ;s as good a subject as another for the kind of biography, en pantoufle, at which Mr. Harold Nicolson is demonstrably skilled. That Hamilton Rowan was his great- ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE OLD CHELSEA.--So strongly do I dislike on the stage almost any form of pseudo- historical romance, the flavour of which is poison to me, that I would feel like dubbing this pro duction at the Princes Theatre Arsenic and Old Chelsea, were it not for its music and the admir ably picturesque stage-setting. Mr. Richard Tauber, who has composed most of it and plays the ...

... . 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. 44 ops.4* Adrianne Allen. 44 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, ...

... THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VISION By Vernon Fane Aldous Huxley and the Art of Seeing An Articulate Farmer Love in the Blitz Polish Adventure and Irish Romance Revolution without Tears AT the age of sixteen Mr. Aldous Huxley had a violent attack of an eye illness which left him, after eighteen months of near-blind ness, with one eye just capable of light perception, and the other with enough vision to ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MOST of Miss Delafield's novels can be divided into two categories: the comic and the sad. The comic are funnier than life usually is, and the sad are sadder. She sees the human lot through spectacles that are either rose-coloured or dark-tinted. Some times the colours get mixed, and sometimes we observe that traits in human nature which only serve to cause the first Miss ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MODEST heroes are apt to be a little self- conscious about their modesty; one respects them for this, but all the same it may become an irritating trait, almost as irritating as boastfulness. une ot tne pleasantest features in the very pleasant character of Corporal Jack is his open- minded attitude towards his own achievements. We can not say that he was a hero malgre hti, ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE FLYING COLOURS.-- With a bit more polish and a slicker production this revue at the Lyric Theatre would have flown to even more colourful heights. As it is, it is pretty good and certainly well above the average. With Miss Binnie Hale and Mr. Douglas Byng in the cast, furnished, as they are here, with worthy material, this could hardly fail to be so. Miss Hale appears ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. PROBABLY the most contro versial film produced in this country during our entire screen history is THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. It will rouse pas sions and debates wherever it is shown. It will delight some people, and infuriate others. It will prove a knotty problem when the ques tion of export comes to be considered. Will it do good to our reputa tion abroad ...

... . 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. 44 BLITHE SPIRIT 44 (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. 44 PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, Dorothy ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE old spacious days of the Continental cinema are recalled this week in TARAKANOVA, the French film at Studio One. inis is a costume piece about the court of Catherine of Russia, and it has been presented with a camera eye for beauty that amounts almost to a passion. Beautiful sets, beautiful faces', beautiful compositions of figures are tenderly lit and photographed ...