... BOB is also Leslie Henson, and we are well content to be his nephews. To me he has not changed very much since an August evening in 1919, when he flung himself upon the stage of the Winter Garden Theatre in Kissing Time. That night a ten-year-old was enraptured by the Henson goggle eyes, the Henson croak, and that curious, inquiring thrust of the head, as of a sparrow-cum-goldfish. To-day ...

... A' DOUBLE LIFE THIS was the film that won Ronald Colman an Academy Award for the best actor's performance of the year, and in everything that touches on one-half of his performance-- the private side of the double life of a matinée idol-- he triumphs effortlessly. Anthony John is a fashionable Broadway actor, a darling of the gods, who loses himself in his parts more thoroughly than most. ...

... Spanish serenade. An Argentinian film in Spanish, with irritating American-English titles, bout the life of the composer Albeniz. Fine eading performance from Pedro Lopez Lagar. so evil my love. Another murder tale from the aspidistra period. Not my cup of poison. daybreak.-- -Monckton Hoffe's cheerless little number about the private life of a public hangman decorative in places, but made ...

... CUb MR. ARTHUR MACRAE'S new farcical comedy is lightly and continuously funny. It is quite brilliantly acted. The curtain rises at the good old time of eight thirty, and no other entertainment in town is so likely to justify an experiment which has been tried once before without success. It is at the right address. It gives Miss Yvonne Arnaucl the bset part that she has had for some time, and ...

... Elizabeth Hewehs BEMELMANS' Dirty Eddie-- announced in its native land as the novel about Holly wood to end all novels about Hollywood-- has now come to London. More exactly, it has been published in England by Messrs. Hamish Hamilton, at 8s. 6d. I should like to stress that the operative factor in this announcement is not so much more about Hollywood as more-- and, arguably, even the ...

... Cbtr e- Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt The Gioconda Smile (New) THE playhouse, once the Devil's favourite haunt, is really a very moral place. Without any prompting from the censor, it imposes all sorts of restraints on authors who, within the covers of their books, are free to be wholly uninhibited. See how even Mr. Aldous Huxley must answer to the bridle. When he wrote the story of a rich ...

... maid to measure (Cambridge). Jessie datthews flits back again in a revue that lives iown its title. corinth house (New Lindsey). You never i now what can go on in a Kensington private 1 otel. Pamela Hansford Johnson does, and 1 er play has a certain horror and intensity. musical chairs (Arts). Nerve-storms in ralicia. Ronald Mackenzie's play still strikes il this is the right kind of revival. ...

... THE study of crime has always been fascinating, and so, by the same token, has the study of criminal lawyers, particularly when they might be called criminal in both senses of the word. THE TRUE AND SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF HOWE AND HUMMEL (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) is as entertaining a book as I have read for months, wittily written, factually complete and terrific as an exposé of what legal ...

... All My Sons (Lyric, Hammersmith Anthony Cook man with Tom Titt WITH this play Mr. Arthur Miller won the year's award made by the dramatic critics of New York. The public, naturally suspicious of what has pleased a body of experts, may be assured that the prize piece is good theatre absolutely and not merely good on points. It tells a highly emotional, curiously moving story. Joe Keller is a ...

... OA Cage Me A Peacock (Strand) Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt HERE again are those funny fellows, the ancient Romans-- with their bare knees and shin guards and short, broad swords and Elizabethan beards and plumed helmets and port wine faces, and their disconcerting habit of dropping into modern slang and their simple but not always predictable reactions to little American blondes who only ...

... Reviewed by Trevor a. Allen IT'S bracing to read of unconventional folk in these docketed days; and circus people, I suppose, are as free and versatile as any. Reco, the Great Blondini wire-walker, for example, has worked as miner, farmhand, tumbled for coppers on market days, wandered the road with performing don keys, served as fill-in clown, been penniless and now owns his own show. There ...

... THE event of the week, as far as the world of novels is concerned, is publication of Mr. Graham Greene's THE HEART OF THE MATTER (Heine mann. 9s. 6d.). It is news, too, because this is, at least partly, a love story, and love stories as such have not been the basis for Mr. Greene's reputation as a writer. It is also the story of a different kind of saint, though the author might dispute that ...