... . Starred by iCThe 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 (Apollo). R.A.F. ops. Adrianne Allen. 44 BLITHE SPIRIT (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, Dorothy ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. NOSTALIGIA for the past is a very prevalent mood, not only among, literary men; and Mr. James Pope-Hennessy yields himself to it with melancholy and grace. His West Indian Summer is an account of the island of Trinidad seen through a temperament-- in fact, through several temperaments --and through the mists, vary ing in density, of several pasts. He himself was there in ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. DANCE of the Years is the life (and death) story of J ames Galantry, son of an East Anglian squire. Old Galantry had married again, late in life; his second wife was a gypsy, and this accident of parentage gave James a sense of apartness, not only from his step-relations, but from the whole world. l his cir cumstance, together with the historical setting of Miss Mar gery ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. YOU will have noticed an in creasing ten dency of late to make films about groups of people-- marines, A.T.S. girls, munition workers, nurses of Bataan. In the old days, it used to be considered sufficient for one beautiful girl to have one love-story in each film. Nowadays we study the emotional problems of half-a-dozen in a batch. Whether it is just reaction, or the ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. BETTE DAVIS'S directors are said to have said that for Bette to get going at her best she needs to play an intelligent female who is either wrong on wronged, against a background of earthquake, upper-class murder, or historical crisis. Personally, I like my Bette wrong and hopping mad a cross between Jezebel, Mildred of Human Bondage and Regina of The Little Foxes which may ...

... . 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. BLITHE SPIRIT 44 (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Kay Ham mond, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne. 44 PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX 44 (Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, ...