... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE most im pressive films I have seen in the past fortnight are both about war in the desert. One is British, the other Russian. Both, oddly enough, have numerical titles, The British film is NINE MEN (New Gallery). The Russian film is THE THIRTEEN (Tatler). Nine Men is directed by Harry Watt, the man who made Target for To-night and London Can Take It. Watt is one of ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. DESTINATION CHUNG KING is the auto biography of a Chinese lady, born in Honan and bred in Peking, who, in 1937, when barely twenty, came to London to study obstetrics. Her natural bent was for literature, but Science was our god, a beneficent god to make of China a rich and happy nation. At that time she was a pacifist, and had many bitter arguments with her childhood ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT is so pleasant to watch those ex cellent artists. Gaby Morlay, Michel Simon, Eric von Stroheim and the rest at work again, that few people will grumble if the new French film at Studio One, DERRIÈRE LA FAÇADE, is not arranged quite as impeccably as their talents merit. Derriere la Facade was in pro duction when the war broke out. It was actually showing in Paris when ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE categories into which novelists can be divided are manifold, and if they are seldom very water tight or precise, at any rate they clear the ground and make a basis for discussion. The oldest, the best-known and, on the whole, the most useful of these categories, the romantic and the realistic, for many years divided fiction into two camps. Romance and realism are ...