... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE unheroic but not altogether unsympathe tic hero of Time Must Have a Stop is a schoolboy of seventeen, whose angelic appearance makes him look much younger. He is, how ever, obsessed by sex; and if we imagine that Mr. Aldous Huxley is going to spare us any detail of his amorous phantasies, we are much mis taken. Both Sebastian and, I think, the author are unduly ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF you want a spring tonic-- and who doesn't?-- I sug gest that you go straight to the Odeon and see the film ver sion of Noel Coward's BLITHE SPIRIT. It is not a very, very good picture. It is hardly a picture at all in spite of a few simple camera tricks, such as flower-vases and-furniture moved by invisible agency, it is really a stage play photographed in Technicolor. ...

... MYSELF IT TIE PICTURES Concerning Revivals By James Agate NEWS comes of the revival of The Sign of the Cross (Plaza). This film is, of course, an absurdity, but an absurdity on the grand scale. I have been sufficiently interested in the revival to look up what was said of Wilson Barrett's play in 1896. William Archer took the line that this orgy-- which he was sufficiently rattled to spell as ...

... The Wind of Heaven (St. James's) SCRATCH an Anglo-Saxon, some say, and you find a Celt. At any rate, there is enough of the Celt in the average London playgoer to assure a long run to the very Welsh play of Mr. Emlyn Williams now setting the very urban stage of George Alexander's old theatre a-tingle with the emotions of villagers who believe themselves to be touched by a wind from Heaven. ...

... ''The Assassin (Savoy) ANY one who writes a romantic play about an event as recent as the assassination of Admiral Darlan runs the risk of dis tracting his audience with a quiz of irrelevant questions. Was Darlan's murderer executed? Yes, of course-- but when?-- or did he shoot himself? And did he, in fact, profess Royalist principles? vVas Darlan shot at a radio station, or in his own office ...

... FIRST of all, to consider A BELL FOR ADANO (Gol lancz. 8s. 6d.), which has been one of the past season's most spectacular successes in the United States. It has been dramatised and is now playing in New York, while in Holly wood they are relentlessly turning out a film version. Its fame has come before it even to this rrmnfru- TViorn ic +liornfr\ro vvymi j A livx V 1U| LI1V& VIvl Of v- ...

... The Gaieties (Winter Garden) WE all know Mr. Leslie Henson's faces. The author of Immoment Toys has reflected a few of them with love and knowledge. They are not human features. He will, in moments of ecstasy, look at you out of eyes bulging like those of a moth which has eaten too much tapestry. Or, in the matter of indignant denial, shoot his head with the scowl of a tortoise accused of ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. LITTLE Margaret O'Brien, that grave little girl whom anyone in his senses would have spotted as a juvenile world-beater more than a year ago in that enchanting film Lost Angel, has just been given the Hollywood accolade for her work in Meet Me In St. Louis. That is to say, she has been awarded one of those hideous, heavy statuettes known as Oscars, which the more ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen HOW that literary wholesaler, Alexandre Dumas, found time to ghost the volu minous travels of a cultivated French woman of a century ago is a matter for wonder; but he did so, evidently from her detailed notes, in The Journal of Madame Giovanni (Hammond, 12s. 6d.), admirably translated from the French edition of 1856 by Mrs. Marguerite E. Wilbur. This vivacious ...

... /re/ie (His Majesty's) MR. JACK HYLTON must have known that the success of his revival of Irene could by no means be taken for granted. In 1920 the piece went with a swing-- a good long swing-- for several reasons that no longer count. In the first place, it introduced a new actress from America, Miss Edith Day. Her triumph as the Alice Blue Gown girl was freely compared with the ...

... SIR OSBERT SITWELL practises and enjoys the grand manner, of which his new book is so adequate an example. Planned on a large scale, LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND! (Mac millan. 158.) is to be the first of four volumes of auto biography, and deals partly with the author's childhood, partly with a description of his ancestry, amounting as much to a dissertation on social conditions in England as to the ...

... THERE are stories in this war of a number of special bodies of fighting men and their exploits which are pecu liarly exciting, and peculiarly poignant. Sometimes, in the case of our own men, I have thought that this was because their adventures recalled, in their limited scope and limit less gallantry, the daring of our Elizabethan sailors and our soldiers under Marlborough and Wellington. ...