... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES A French Cavalcade By James Agate C. E. MONTAGUE laid it down that good work is never lost, while Arnold Bennett maintained that if the world held only one copy of a first-class book and that book were dropped in the Sahara Desert some traveller would discover it. Meaning, I have always thought, that if the traveller were an Englishman he would turn up his nose at the ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Long, Dull and Worthy By James Agate Shipbuilders (New Gallery) is a very long, very dull, very worthy, very dull, and very long film about shipbuilding on the Clyde. At the press show critics were presented with an elaborate four-leaved programme nearly a foot square, in which a tiny rivulet of text meandered through a meadow of navy-blue margin. This colossal programme ...

... Hamlet at the New Theatre By Horace Horsnell THE news that Robert Helpmann, who had already danced Hamlet, intended also to act him, fluttered the dovecots considerably. Would he? Could he? True he had already acted one Shakespearian role (Oberon at the Old Vic), and his spoken excerpt from Comos, in the delightful ballet he had recently based on Milton's young master-piece, vindicated his ...

... The Two Children at the Arts By Horace Horsnell GOOD but short-tempered patriots no longer swear by the living Jingo. That bellicose bird took a fatal knock in the last war and, in so far as the theatre reflects public sentiment, is now as dead as the dodo. During the -last war few, if any, serious war plays were produced. We had the Byng Boys and some blithe camp followers to keep the ...

... Shakespeare at The. Scala By Horace Horsnell It takes all sorts to make an audience, especially an audience for Shakespeare. From the playgoer who is seeing, say, The Merchant of Venice in action for the first time, to the stall-fed critic who has seen good, bad, and indifferent productions of this star- spangled comedy ad nauseam, the range of spectators is wide. It includes those fond. ...

... Sweeter and Lower (Ambassadors) By Horace Horsnell IF you saw and enjoyed Sweet and Low, you will know what to expect, and should not be disappointed with this new edition of that downright revue, which follows in the footsteps of the' old.. It has the courage of its impudent convictions and the wit to express them. Its authors and artists assume the privilege of the social lampoonist to quiz ...