... THE revisiting of old films, particularly in company with a generation to whom any thing that was made the day before yester day seems practically prehistoric, is generally a mug's game, leading to disappointment, despon dency and discountenance. (Whatever did the old dear see in those ghastly pictures?) But I think you can safely make an exception in favour of The Cabinet of Dr. ...

... ctk tfcu Royal Circle (Wyndham 's J AUDIENCES so dumb that they will not venture to say Boo! to the veriest goose of a play offend sticklers for the rigour of the theatrical game. Hisses are hideous sounds, but they betoken a healthy spirit of discrimination. So runs the virilist argument, plausibly enough; yet in my experience the mere goose stands in less danger of noisy disapprobation ...

... By C. A. Lejeune THE MURDERERS ARE AMONGST US.-- This first post-war German film to be shown publicly in England has come in for a good deal of criticism on political grounds-- most of it, in my opinion, quite unwarranted. On artistic grounds it is extremely hard to fault. The film is a fine piece of work in the characteristic German school of craftsmanship rather darker in tone and heavier ...

... 44 Winged Dagrgrer 44 Siill Glides the Stream The Widow's House 44 Bog: Blossom Stories Elizabeth Betvens Bamett Freedman is the subject of one of the latest volumes in the series English Masters of Black-and-White, published by Art and Technics at 8s. 6d. Jonathan Mayne tells the story of this fine illustrator and war artist, who achieved success after years of illness and difficulties, and ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REV 'lEWER'S CHOICE THE HARP IN THE SOUTH. By Ruth Park. (Michael Joseph 9s. 6 d.) WITH AND WITHOUT TEARS. By L. Steni. (i Falcon Press 8s. 6d.) NEVER AGAIN. By Francis King. (Home and Van Thai 9s. 6 d.) THE STREAM OF DAYS. By Taha Hussein. (Longmans Green 8s. 6d.) THE HARP IN THE SOUTH.-- Most novels which have had Australian backgrounds have been so ...

... THE warm spring weather is certainly bringing out the new novels in a flurry of promise and, sometimes, of performance. First of all there is a work by that elegant veteran of the craft, Mr. Gil bert Frankau, who has written his first novel for some years, and one of his longest and most moving, with MICHAEL'S WIFE (Macdonald. 12s. 6d.). l'svchiatr.v and analysis and psychoanalysis have lately ...