... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... ONE BRIGHT DAY is a problem play. For its dramatic effect it relies on the problems facing a group of people concerncd with the running of a drug factory, and it sets the audience a pretty problem ONE BRIGHT DAY 1 Pla> by Sigmund Miller. Pre sented by Peier Saunders at the Pavilion. Bournemouth, on Febru ary 13. Decor b> Michael Weight Julian PrejtCOtl Clive Brook Frederick Newberry ...

... A NEW play by Leo Lehman has been chosen to ring down the final curtain at the Q, after which it ceases to be a professional theatre. It is an entertaining play of WHO CARES? Play by Leo Lehman Presented at the Q on February 14. Decor bs Elizabeth Agombar. Harry Stephen Murray J.G Peter Howell Felicia Mary Laura Wood Stefan Vivian Matalon Bubbles Jill Raymond Directed by Peter Zadek. ...

... . 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 ...

... 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. ...

... BRIGHTON PREMIERE THE GALE On Tuesday of last week at the PLayhouse, Brighton, was pre sented a jew play in three acts by Parnell Bradbury entitled The Gale. A better title would be The Tame Bull. as the whole of the drama of a doctor's efforts to im prove scientifically on human nature follow# his successful ex periment in changing the temper of a fierce bull. It is. indeed, chiefly ...

... Margaret Cowan's ALMOST inextricably mixed together are our producers of feature and TV films today. Take this quote from F. N. G. Leevers, President of the British Kinemetograph Society: It is not every exhibiting or producing company which has suc ceeded in extending its operations into the new medium of television, but I am certain that without the successful launching of ITA the effect ...

... 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 ...