... Frt'tlti ISi-m-i' M .iii-lilt a ft I' TOO, am of the theatre, says the dramatic critic in All About Eve. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am indispen sable to the theatre. I am a critic. A film critic's indispensability to the cinema is not for me to judge. But he does come to feel a certain identification with the cinema. When I hear the cinema vilified as the worse- than-opiate of ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis I WENT through Portsmouth Town by mis take, explained the driver of a passenger- train to Waterloo which dashed through that station recently, taking the crowd on the platform aback so completely that for once it forgot to cheer. And that's all there is to it, added the driver to the Press boys, rather sharply. A less testy type, if you remember Three Men in a Uoat, was ...

... wmli squeak Compiled by Jay Jay AN Iranian air mission flew into Washington Airport for a series of informal discussions about the post-war aviation set-up. The Iranian Minister sent a high dignitary to represent his countrymen, of course, and the American Air Transport Command was represented by Major-Gen. George. X The Iranian mistook the latter for General George Marshall and addressed him ...

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... What these writer chaps would call a tear of nerves, I imagine By V/yndham Robinson ...

... An artist cannot help liking at least some of his own drawings. -ver the years I have retained my own ivourites and now Collins, this mont! will publish a handsome volume contai ng well over one hundred of them. (Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S.) W. Craig Henderson, K.C. D.Sc. L.L.D. Ernest Thesiger as Voltaire in Old Age ...

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... jKkrf-cx/Z c- Freda Bruce Lochhart SOME obscure sense of collective guilt may have prompted Hollywood to pick out four of the year's most unglamorous characters for its awards. Runners up to Vivien Leigh's be draggled Southern belle in Streetcar Named, Desire and Humphrey Bogart's belching, gin-swigging vagabond in African Queen are reliably re puted to have been their partners in the same ...

... BRIGGS by Graham Graham ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis SHE is not a real squaw, one of Fleet Street's caption-experts hurriedly explained under a photograph of the daintiest imaginable little Nordic blonde smiling shyly at the Paleface from under a big Red Indian war-headdress. To clinch it he added that she came from Newcast!e-on-Tyne. This may fool you sahibs, but hardly satisfies the natural scepticism of this department. ...

... MUSIC AND THE COMMON MAN 4 SPONTANEOUS COLLECTIVE SELF-EXPRESSION Once more, Schweppshire anticipates the era of progress-- the century of the common, or fairly, common, man. The making of music is not left to the individual freak, the isolated and probably introverted and ego-bound composer, standing or wishing to stand apart from his fellow men.' Musical creation is a spontaneous act ...