... IT was a trivial little thing, a black chiffon nightdress. Alicia Christie, a Chelsea woman comfortably off, stole it from a shop counter, and there seemed to be no earthly reason for her folly until a psychiatrist found one in a complex family relationship. What happened to the woman next, and why? There, briefly, is the pith of Lesley Storm's drama at the West- mit ster, with the problem ...

... At The Pictures Itos|iiic from Crime Freda Rrure Lorkliari Two young friends have been charging me with undue reserve in my appreciation of films of vice and violence, which is to say, as I readily concede, almost all contemporary first- class Hollywood films. If films peopled by perverts, dope-fiends, hypochondriacs, sadists and morons are well made and exciting that should be enough, they ...

... Beverley Baxter Soon we '11 be in London Town, Sing my lads Yo Ho A nd see the King in a golden crowd, Sing my lads Yo Ho J Montreal. THE good ship Empress of Canada will dock to-morrow, and I have only to visit Ottawa for a day and then go on board. Will the sun be shining over Liverpool when we put into that voluptuous port? Will the train to London be a streamlined all-Pullman affair with ...