... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT isn't every week that you can go to a motion- picture gallery, and see an exhibition of some of the best work of Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim, Jean Renoir, Maxim Gorki, John Steinbeck, Burgess Meredith and Walt Disney, but that is the pleasure I can promise you this week at the Academy Cinema, where they are showing the French UNDERWORLD and the American FOR ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE REST IS SILENCE (Prince of Wales).-- This gloomy but impressive drama is Mr. George Black's most valuable contribution to the serious theatre so far. I have never been able to understand this penchant for making plays out of the trial of Madeleine Smith, though of the several I have seen this is by far the best. To me the most interesting part of the whole business ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. PLANET AND GLOW WORM, Miss Edith Sitwell's new antho logy, is described as a book for the sleepless, for those whose continual cares, fears, sorrows, dry brains drive rest away. The greatest of all works of literature in a certain kind, Miss Sitwell says, bring comfort to the heart, but they do not bring sleep they awaken the heart and the soul to what lies beyond ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE scene of Mrs. Weston's novel is Amritpore, a small civil station in India, and the action of the story covers the years between 1889 and the first World War. The subject-- but Indigo has several subjects, and it is not easy to say which looms largest, after India itself. There is the friendship be tween the three boys Jacques St. Remy, the Frenchman, whose mother owns ...

... Meet Me Victoria (Victoria Palace) By Horace Horsnell HISTORY does not say whether Old King Cole, when he called for his pipe, his bowl, and his fiddlers three, called also for his Lupino. The omission, however, is probably more apparent than deliberate, and may be explained by the fact that his Lupino was already there, primed with the quips and pranks that, from time immemorial, have been ...

... How Are They At Home at the Apollo By Horace Horsnell After Desert Highway, the oasis; and it will be poor hearts indeed that do not rejoice in the feast of fun Mr. Priestley has prepared for our Forces overseas. He answers the question asked by the title of this rippling comedy in a manner that should delight all inquirers. He does not fob them off with bare facts, but dresses up the facts ...

... IN spite of the combined magic of E. M. burster, Yeats-Brown Kipling and even Rabindranath Tagore, India has never been a country I wanted to visit, or a mystery I wished to solve, from which, I feel sure, every kind of un favourable moral can be drawn. Nevertheless, the writing of these masters has been a constant source of delight, and in more recent years have come Ackerley, Rumer Godden, ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SOME months ago an exhibitor friend of mine, who runs a small repertory cinema in North London, asked me whether I would canvass my readers as to the films they would like to see again-- or, more specifically, what films they would take some trouble and spend some money to go and see again. I did, and out of sixty or seventy titles mentioned, these are the films, in this ...

... . Starred by The Sketch. highest value. BLITHE SPIRIT (Duchess). Noel Coward's play. Betty Ann Davies, Cecil Parker, Irene Browne, Beryl Measor. PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX Duke of York's). 1880 Brighton comedy. Iris Hoey, Dorothy Hyson, David Home. 44 UNCLE HARRY 44 Garrick Victorian gas-light murder thriller, with Michael Redgrave and Beatrix Lehmann. 44 THE DANCING YEARS 44 Adelphi ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. TO all intents and purposes the film HIGHER AND HIGHER (London Pavilion) is over. Wedding bells are in the air. The lovers have clinched and faded. You are reaching for your hat or bag, when you become aware of a dark speck on the screen drawing nearer and nearer. It grows from a pin-point into a full-size figure, filling the screen. A gaunt-faced, burning-eyed young man ...

... YOUNG women may be-- and sometimes are-- afraid of love. And other young women may be afraid of the call-up, but it takes Mr. Richard Sher man's heroine, Barbara, to have an equal aversion from both, and to spend go per cent. of her time and energies in dodging both issues, in digging herself into a safe job, and in aoine to her numerous parties with as numerous escorts. THE UNREADY HEART ...

... The Rest Is Silence at the Prince of Wales By Horace Horsnell IF, at Edinburgh in 1857, the Scottish jury that acquitted Madeleine Smith of murder could have foreseen this play, their verdict of Non Proven might conceivably have been more positive. They would thus have robbed the accused young lady of much notoriety, and generations of amateur criminologists of some agreeable speculation. As ...