... . By L. P. HARTLEY. I AM too late to recommend Channel Packet, which has already gone into three impressions; but not too late, I hope, to praise it, rapid as is nowadays the dis appearance of any book which endears itself to the public. One's reasons for liking a book do not always really explain why one likes it one may like it as one likes a person, for some temperamental affinity or a ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SINCE human nature is always in trigued by a bio graphy, and never more intrigued than by the very private biography of a very public man, the screen obituary was not exhausted when Orson Welles made Citizen Kane. Much the same cinematic pattern has been followed by the producers of the new film at the Empire, KEEPER OF THE FLAME. If the niece isn't auite the towering ...

... . 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 ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT is not every film director whose name be comes part of the currency of our language. We do not, for example, speak of a typical George B. Seitz situation, or de scribe an atmosphere as being genuine Sam Wood. Yet Mr. Seitz has been directing pictures for twenty-nine years, and Mr. Wood, whose record can be little, if any, shorter, has handled some of the biggest ...