... . By L. P. HARTLEY. FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE is an escape story. Fly ing Officer John Franklin and his crew of four sergeants are returning from a raid in North Italy when the airscrew fails and the aeroplane crashes in Occupied France. Franklin's arm is badly cut the rest are unhurt. After one rebuff they are taken in by a farmer's family and hidden in a mill- house (the river plays ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SO the mammoth Technicolor HENRY V. has arrived on the screen at last. Now we can appreciate the meaning of those tasty posters, silver fleur-de lys on an azure ground, that have popped up for weeks on the London hoardings, between advertisements of a certain brand of gin and adjurations to Cut our Gas and Electricity. Henry V. (Carlton) was Produced and Directed oy ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE Golden Carpet is a reprint, with modi fications, of two nar ratives of desert warfare already published in limited editions at a price prohibitive to the general reader. The new volume is cheap at fifteen shillings; with its beautiful paper, plentiful illustrations and excellent print, it is a shining example of wartime book production. Of the contents it is pos sible ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. AFTER a diet of the rich, piquant dishes of Holly wood, there is a lot to be said for a nice, plain British documentary like WESTERN APPROACHES (general release shortly). 44 Western Approaches was made for the Crown Film Unit by an extremely talented young man called Pat Jackson, and acted by serving officers and men of the Allied navies and merchant fleets. There isn't a ...