... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. t HANGMEN ALSO DIE (Tivoli and Marble Arch Pavi lion) tackles a subject that seems a little too big for its autho director, Fritz Lang, and his company of Hollywood artists. This is the story of the search for the assassin of Heydnch, the Hang man of Czechoslovakia, and, more grandiosely, the apotheosis of the soul of the Czech people. The pick of the soul of the Czech ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. TIMES change, as all sorts of writers have snappily observed in all sorts of languages. There was the day when the words All-star Cast on a film bill meant quite simply, as a rule, that there was no star in it worth mentioning. Now it means precisely what it says, and no nonsense. When 1 aramount announces there are fourteen stars in STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM (Plaza), fourteen ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I HAVE been guilty myself, when driven to it by dons and other professorial types, of asserting that the motion- picture camera is the greatest his torian of our times --but then I wasn't thinking of films like FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Oup children and grandchildren, dropping into some repertory cinema of the future and happening on a revival of this 1943 classic, will ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. SENTIMENTAL journeys are apt to be dangerous, for they are undertaken in a state of emotional excite ment. When Angele Kernahan arrived at her father's Irish home she had but the vaguest idea of whom or what she would find there. An actress, like her french motner, and born and brought up in Paris, she had never been to Ireland before she had come en touriste with some ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. A VERY young scientist I know, a four teen-year-old boy by the name of Smith, has an odd hobby. In all the hours he can spare from dissecting frogs and combining combustible elements, he goes to see Technicolor pictures. He goes to see no other pictures. He does not like pictures. He rarely likes Technicolor pictures. But he studies them gloomily, morosely, in the interests ...

... . By G. A. LEJEUNE. WALT DISNEY, who started his professional career through a mouse whom he met in an office, has become one of America's leading educators for the duration. Educational and propaganda films for the U.S. Government now represent more than three-fourths of the output from the Disney Studios. He is making, or has made, a string of instructional films for the Navy a series for ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. RUNNING to PARA DISE is a novel of escape, though far from being an escapist novel. The hero, Adrian Dormant, rather than wait for his class to be called up in England, joins the French Foreign Legion, and sees much fierce fighting before France signs the Armistice. Most of his friends are killed, and he himself becomes a prisoner of war in German hands. Escaping from ...

... ARTISTRY-BIOGRAPHICAL and FICTIONAL --By Vernon Fane Arnold Palmer's Candid Biography Houses Old and j\[civ One of Alice Duer Miller's Earlier Novels Tough Characters and a Thriller That Really Thrills I HAVE no idea whether there is a critics' convention that opposes any favourable refer ence to a contemporary's dis position. If there is I intend to ignore it and to state that Mr. Arnold ...

... ■By Vernon Fane Captain Evelyn Waugh's Hew Hovel A Best-Seller from America Rachel Field's Last Work The English Romantic Movement I SHOULD like to thank Cap tain Evelyn Waugh for publishing WORK SUSPENDED (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.). In a dedication to that wise old owl, Alexander Woollcott, the author says: This is the book on which I was at work in September 1939. It is now clear to me that ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IN the long run, your verdict on MISSION TO MOSCOW (Warners and Regal) will almost certainly be decided by your political views or the extent of your in formation regarding pre-war European affairs, neither of which is the province of these notes. The controversy surrounding the piece as propaganda is not my affair either, and 1 leave others to decide wnetner tne mm is, ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. RIDE ON, STRANGER is a novel about urban life in Aus tralia in the years just before the war. Shannon Hicks was her parents' fourth daughter; she was born on Monday, a washing-day, and the news of her birth gave her father an attack of indigestion. Any child was bad enough, but a boy would have been prefer able, so rather wistfully they gave her a name that would have ...

... . Starred by The Sketch. highest value. FLARE PATH (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. BLITHE SPIRIT (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, Dorothy Hyson, David Home. 44 THE DANCING YEARS (Adelphi). Ivor Novello in his romantic musical play, with Muriel Barron and Roma ...