... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IN order to obviate impending quarrels between husband and wife, arguments with girl friend, bets with boy friend, and letters to the film critics, I hasten to record the fact that Catherine McLeod doesn't really play the music you see her play in CONCERTO (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion). Arthur Rubinstein does, and pretty busy he is kept, too. Very early in Concerto ...

... THE' LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. THE SCARLET TREE is the second volume of Sir Osbert Sitwell's autobiography. The title may make one wonder. What tree is this? An exotic tree, possibly Chinese? A bibelot, a model, made of coral, per haps, or sealing-wax? A family tree with the parent stem picked out in red Sir Osbert's tree is none of these. It is the blood, that fragile, scarlet tree ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WEEK by week I get letters from ardent strangers who want to know how to get into films-- letters pleading, letters pompous, letters confident, letters wistful, letters with and without, but mostly without, stamped addressed envelopes. Few of these aspirants want to get into films as actors. No, they want to direct films or write scripts, and most of them give as their ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. CERTAIN dates have been recognised as turning- points in the world's history: the accession of Charles V. in 1519, for instance, marked the end of the Middle Ages. More often these critical dates are associated with wars and conquests: 1066 and all that. A lesser-known date. but one most important to wine-lovers, was the year 1868, when the phylloxera, as fatal to wine as ...