... . 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 L. P. HARTLEY. THE MINISTRY OF FEAR is a superior spy-story, written in the grand manner and re calling, in the author's treat ment of his subject, the murky intensity of Conrad's Secret Agent. Mr. Graham Greene's scene is London in the blitz, and among the minor characters the German bombs must be reckoned as not the least amiable. The human beings who decorate the stage are, for the ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MOST of Miss Delafield's novels can be divided into two categories: the comic and the sad. The comic are funnier than life usually is, and the sad are sadder. She sees the human lot through spectacles that are either rose-coloured or dark-tinted. Some times the colours get mixed, and sometimes we observe that traits in human nature which only serve to cause the first Miss ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. PROBABLY the most contro versial film produced in this country during our entire screen history is THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. It will rouse pas sions and debates wherever it is shown. It will delight some people, and infuriate others. It will prove a knotty problem when the ques tion of export comes to be considered. Will it do good to our reputa tion abroad ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS EDITH SITWELL has made an antho logy of aphorisms re lating to poetry and the other arts, with annotations and comments by herself. She calls it A Poet's Notebook. It is a great privilege to be given a bouquet of blooms plucked from the garden of this most gifted poet, their hues and perfumes inter mingling to form an analogy or metaphor for the character of her own ...