... LIVELY READING IN FACT AND FICTION -By Vernon Fane The Biography of a Flying Pioneer Eighteenth-Century American Frontier Battles A Ffovel of Occupied France, and a Thriller of the Week BILLY MITCHELL is known as the stormy petrel of American aviation, and his life is still regarded by many as an example of a man fighting against inertia and prejudice in high places, and against a re luctance ...

... By Horace Horsnell Landslide f Westminster) THIS drama of adolescent adventure in the Alps comes to us from the French, but seems somehow to have lost its way. It promises to be a problem-raiser, but thinks, I won't say better, but less seriously, of it. In older days it might have been a morality thriller, propounding, through the plight of its characters and their behaviour under stress, ...

... . Starred by The Sketch highest value WATCH ON THE RHINE (Aldwych). Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Athene Seyler, Margar etta Scott. Anti-Nazis in U.S. 44 FLARE PATH 44 (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. 44 BLITHE SPIRIT 44 (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. 44 PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, Dorothy ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE new Robert Donat film, originally pro duced as Sabotage Agent, has turned up in the cinemas (the Empire, to be explicit) under the god-awful title, THE ADVENTURES OF TARTU. This seems to me the silliest title-change since Bill and Min became Min and Bill (or was it Mm and Bill ilia! hwamp Rill and Min The nicetv eludes me). Hilaire Belloc once wrote an admirable ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. WHERE Love and Friendship Dwelt is a sequel to I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia-- not an immediate sequel, how ever, for Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, passing over her girlhood, most of which she spent in England, and not all of -which she enjoyed, takes up her tale with her return- to La Celle St. Cloud at the age of seventeen. She had already made up her mind to becoine a writer a ...