... Western Region, p J ease note Elspetb Grant SOME VERY AGREEABLE TWANGLY BACKGROUND MUSIC, COMPOSED AM) conducted by Mr. Ron Goodwin, soothingly suggests that nerves will only be harmoniously jangled by Murder She Said-- and this is indeed the case. Here is, for once, a thoroughly cosy and eminently enjoyable thriller. It is not designed to scare you rigid or send you screaming into the street- ...

... Robert Wraifht O Sale of paintings, drawings sculpture, Bonham's Salerooms. Six painters, two sculptors, Rawinsky Gallery. BY ONE OF THOSE SMALL COINCIDENCES THAT MAKE LIFE MORE interesting, I received in the same post the other day the catalogue of tomorrow evening's sale at Bonham's Montpelier Galleries, in Knights- bridge, and this month's issue of the art magazine The Studio. The catalogue ...

... m ARRANGING A REVUE SEEMS TO BE one of the trickier ways of trying to entertain the public. It is relatively easy if you are blessed with a single author and he happens to be a Farjeon, a Herbert or a Melville, or with one or two comedians-- say, the two Hermiones-- warranted to make a cat laugh whatever they are given to do. But if, like Mr. James Gilbert, the arranger and director of On The ...

... The Cinema Lowbrows and La Garb By JAMES AGATE BEFORE considering our old favourite, Greta Garbo, in a new film-- or should I say the new Greta in an old film?-- there are one or two reflections which I should like to offer on the old subject of the low-brow, his cause and cure. The first question we ought to ask ourselves is: Who wants him to be cured anyway? The poet Tennyson said, in a ...

... The Cinema By I JAMES AGATE, BABYLON AT BRIXTON. EVERY man, it is said, has his price, though, of course, if you are an Abraham Lincoln it needs at least a crown in Heaven. i remember some years ago playing golf at Deal with the present amateur tennis champion. He holed everything from all parts of the green, and some of his putts were so uncanny as to make me believe that there was some ...

... Tlhe Tlheathr aimdl Ms PeopH Foirftlhcosimairagg Frdlxuiixn@iniS-- A f jElleim Teriryo What to See. Next Saturday Mr. Arthur Bourchier revives The Merchant of Venice (after noon) at the Garrick. In the evening are two first nights. At the New Theatre Miss Julia Neilson and Mr. Fred Terry produce Dorothy o' the Hall, and at the Apollo arrive The Dairymaids, the new musical play. (An Monday next ...

... To=dlsiy T Theatres. G. B. S. THE theatrical world is full of hap penings-- happenings which have left some of us rather cold. Con ceive, for instance, a theatre all George Bernard Shaw. Much as all admire the brainiest man in Europe yet we can have too much of him. And such I fancy will be the verdict to-day. Here he is at the Queen's Theatre with The Devil's Disciple and here he is, too, at ...

... , An Elizabethan Classic. IN spite of its grossness, in spite of its un savoury earthy atmosphere, there is something extremely fascinating about the famous Golden Asse of Apuleius as done into English by William Adlington and recently reprinted in a limited edition by Mr. Grant Richards. Its fascination is the fascination of one of Rabelais's stories or an Arabian Night conte-- ...

... The Royal Opera. THERE are far fewer jewels to be seen this season-- but, thank goodness, the audiences are just as numerous! I don't quite know why there should be fewer diamond tiaras en évidence, except that, in these days-- when one doesn't quite know how powerful democracy may be to-morrow-- a display of jewels might provide the proverbial red rag to the bull, and in any case, a too ...

... The Oxford Theatre. THE lady from whom I get my milk-- and all women must be ladies who wear pearl earrings of the purest basement bargain as large as marbles to swab the front doorstep in, and she does-- is very patriotic. Also she wears an auburn wig (transformation is, I believe, the technical expression). Also she has two young sons in the army. Also they are officers. Before the war ...

... London Hippodrome. IT is always Somewhat Difficult to Criticise a Revue. There Seems so very Little to criticise. Of course, You can say That it is amusing, or gorgeous, or merely dull, but these epi thets don't ex plain very much, do they Indeed, they explain as little as when you speak of a person as worthy, or pretty, or merely rather nice. In fact, the only real way of saying ...

... INTERESTING NEW BOOKS, Antiques. ANTIQUES and Curios in our Homes (Werner Laurie), by Miss Grace Val lois, is an extremely useful and very interesting book on old furniture, old china, and old silver. Its chief appeal is to the amateur or the person who is just begin ning to take an interest in these things. Considering that everybody is yearning to be considered an authority on old things, ...