... By Horace Horsnell Strike a New Note (Prince of Wales) IN this type of popular revue, a new note is certainly to be welcomed; and if Mr. George Black's latest rouser does not con sistently strike it, the players do. They are young, eager, and professional. The programme informs us that they are boys and girls who have been gathered from every part of the country, needing but the opportunity to ...

... . 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 Vernon Fane Philip Guedallas Story of Two French Defeatists Sanitational Searchings A Documented History of Convoys A 7S lew Novel by Lady Cynthia Asquith Frederick Niven's 18th 'Century Tapestry A Simple, yet Ingenious, Thriller MR. PHILIP GUEDALLA, in his foreword to THE TWO MARSHALS (Hod der and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.), writes: This book is more than the story of two French soldiers, ...

... . 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 ...