... . THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, (Famous Players Lanky. American.) If ever a picture should have been made on its native heath, or at any rate, in a British studio, this is one. Basil Dean, already responsible in some part for the picturisation of The Constant Nymph, of which he was part author as a play, has, on this f'°n> sought Americas assistance. I ho result is an ordinary American ...

... Talk about it WATFORD The Picture Of Dorian Gray THERE is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about-says Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Palace production of the play deserves and will be talked about. For an evening of satisfying theatre look no further than Watford's Clarendon Road. Wilde's way with words demands complete ...

... Heartbreak House DUBLIN JOE VANEK'S pale, scanty set gives a sepulchral tone to this Gate production of Heartbreak House, and Patrick Mason's direction confirms the theme of mourning. The pace is as slow as a funeral march, and the Shavian humour is frequently overshadowed by a sense of doom. Individual performances are plausi ble. Ingrid Craigie is very fine as Ellie Dunn, and Alan ...

... RICHARD GILL'S Travellers, presented by the Repertory Players on Sunday last, has for characters the circus and fairground folk with whom the author, now an actor, once worked. In consequence, the characters and dialogue have an air of authenticity which makes the unsua' and to some extent unfashionable theme dramatically exciting throughout the first act and even succeeds in holding the ...

... FOR as long as one cares to remember the work, of Gilbert and Sullivan has. apart from the D'Oyly Carte, been presented by amateur companies with hearty gusto and moderate finesse. There can be few who Have not joined in the fun on one side or the other of the foot lights, cherishing memories of harmonious music and worthy witticisms of an individual style which has no equal. One therefore ...

... 'The House of The Dead' LAST Friday evening saw the fifth and last production in the Prague Opera Season at the King's, Edinburgh, the British premifcre of Janacek's The House of the Dead. Written in 1928 to his own libretto adapted from Dostoevsky's Journal from the House of the Dead the work is a powerful evocation of the liv ing death of a prison camp in Siberia. Almost without plot, the ...

... . As was only to be expected, the revival in the British film industry and the prospects it gives of work could not proceed without a jarring note. This note has been provided by two producing units who are already unable to meet their liabilities. One was partially trolled by an American direc tor who had already achieved such a bad financial reputation that it is remarkable lie found ...

... . SHOULD A DOCTOR TELLT? (British Lion. British.) Despite the experienced production of Manning Haynes, a capital company, and good recording, this feature will not help us much, nor is it likely to prove a public attraction, in spits of a certain morbid curiosity the title may be relied upon to arouse. The weak story is obviously inspired by recent happenings in the Law Courts. The ...

... . FILMED VAUDEVILLE. Although in some quarters the talkies are said to be injuring variety, it is a remarkable fact that the screens of the kinema are prone to go to the music-hall stage, for many of their programme items and general assistance. The numerous so-called film revues have up to now been nothing but series of music-hall acts, somewhat clumsily strung together, ond even the big ...

... COVENT GARDEN THE VALKYRIE On wednesday of last week the Covent Garden Trust staged the first performance since the war of Wagner's i lie amyne. Stephen Williams writes: This production has come in for some fairly hard knocks Many critics have waxed facetious about Die lighting or we might more appropriately call It the search- lighting and others have coin- plained of the stark, ...

... ST. ANNE'S, SOHO THE MASQUE OF ST. ANTONY For the past fortnight St. Anne's House. Soho. has presented the first part of This Way to the Tomb, by Ronald Duncan, under its original title of The Masque of Saint Antony. This studious work, with the attractive music of Benjamin Britten, lost nothing in being entrusted to a semi- professional company. Also, the producer was Frank Napier, who ...

... NORWICH PREMIERE AND HE DID HIDE HIMSELF On Monday, at the Maddermarket, Norwich, the Maddermarket Theatre Trust. Ltd., presented the Norwich Players in the first English production of a play in three acts by Ignazio Silone entitled And He Did Hide Himself.'* The Italian author, an ardent Socialist, has based his story of the Italian underground movement on his novel Bread and Wine. ...