... DEBRETT'S PEERAGE. In the fourth year of war we are not unfamiliar with the war substitute commodity. Debrett, however, most famous book of reference, has succeeded, in spite of immense difficulties, in carrying, on in its old style. The 1943 edition is now on sale at the pre-war price of 105s. net, cloth-bound. Special features of this year's issue are the War Honours Supplement, containing ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. A FEW years ago escap ist literature was regarded in some quar ters with an air of slight moral disapproval, as though to turn from things as they are to things as they might be was an act of disloyalty to life, and therefore wrong. Now. however, these puritanical voices seem to be stilled, and an author can label his book escapist without incurring reproof. Mr. Louis ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I YOU can see-- if you can find it-- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, the second film made by Orson Welles, whose Citizen Kane so delighted the intelligent filmgoer and so shocked the exhibitor and the complacent audiences. All I can tell you is that it is to be found somewhere in Acton, somewhere in if urn t uak, somewnere m Haves and Chingford, and somewhere in Brighton. ...

... . 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 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 ...