... by ANTHONY MERRYN MERRIE ENGLAND, that hardy stand-by of amateurs, had a lull and lavish profesional performance in Sadler's Wells on August 10. Edward German was no Sullivan, but he had a nonius and person ality of his own. which has caused (his work to survive on the sheer strength of his tunefulness, music- i.msh p and light touch. Otherwise (he rather naive plot, about Queen Elizabeth. ...

... A VIEW FROM THE BRINK. by David Campion, had its first performance at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, last week. From first to last, these three short plays are consistently funny, with a humour which brings Mr. Canvp- ton's points home with deadly accuracy. The author himself and David Glover appear as two all-too- familiar statesmen, conferring with the all-too-familiar goonery of all ...

... Our Kindness to Five Persons EDINBURGH A PLAY which deals with the cohesion and tensions among a group of friends at a re-union party gets a more vivid playing from the students of the Queen Margaret College Drama School than the evidence of the plot justifies in Tom Gallacher's play, Our Kindness to Five Persons. The party-goers, in their maturity, discover a renewal of the influence ...

... . JEALOUSY. Warner. British. Adapted from a stage play, The Green Eye, this is useful drama. The story possesses little originality, but has been well worked out with good dialogue. Production by G. B. Samuelson is capital. Tho story tells of one Garwood, who is in love with his ward, Joyce. She, unfortunately, love9 Bernard Wyngate. It is necessary to get the young man out of tho way, ...

... . DOMINION City Lights. Now that the hysteria has died town, and the intensive boosting hat heralded the new Chaplin ilm has become quieter, it is lasier to look at tho matter impartially. Like most other things the virtues of vhich have been ammod dovtn tho public throat *d nauseam, City Lights, pre sented here on Fobraary 27, is iomething of a disappointment. IV o are told that the ...

... . 'THE BROKEN ROMANCE. (Fox. British.) H. B. Parkinson is best known as a maker of short subjects, and in this direction he lias been extremely suooeseful. As a director of a full-length feature he is not so satisfactory. He has chosen a poor, novelettish story, and the, construction of tho. scenario is not up to tho standard required, A young author falls in |,ove with tho daughter of a ...

... Why Not See More Hicks? I interviewed Seymour Hicks recently. He told me that he has arranged to appear in ten new comedy films with Miss Ellaline Terriss This will be his first screen attempt for several years. Before the was he had a fling at kinoma acting, and these were early days, when picture producing ua* still in its early etoge, and he did not think much ...

... . MADAME POMPADOUR (Herbert Wilcox. British). This film, produced by Herbert Wilcox for British National, and now destined to Oguro as a Famous Players Lasky quota film, is described as being British. It was made in England, but the cast is an international one. The story, circling round one of the most remarkable women and one of the most absorbing periods in history, is full of action und ...

... List!-- Lift! Oh. List! Radio is responsible for interest ing development. When the Home Wireless craze arose in America drew attention to it and pro phesied that we should soon see it worked here from our own broad casting centres. This has already been done with the Carpentier Lewxa fitfbt. Now America if starting on another method of oon Yuriin* movies into apeakiee. Already monv U.S. ...

... . MASSES, STAGE, AND FILM GUILD. On Sunday night, at the Scala, the Masses, Stage, and Film Guild showed three pictures, sang the Internationale lustily, and made protests against the authorities who had prevented the screening of the Russian drama 44 Mother. From the protests we learned that the London County Council permitted the screening of certain pictures by the opulent Film Sooiety ...

... The Shadow Of A Gunman LEICESTER SHORT, sharp and superbly performed. That's the Leicester Haymarket Studio production of The Shadow Of A Gunman. Yes it is drawn on the Ireland, and particularly Dublin, of the 1920s but Sean O'Casey's work goes beyond that and this play is as much about individ uals, human strengths and weaknesses as the troubled rimes. It had a striking effect when it was ...

... One Over The Eight SCARBOROLIGH THE PHYSICAL hard work the actors put into Peter Robert Scott's new play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round as they train for a big boat rowing challenge must be almost unsurpassed on the British stage. From the start they demonstrate their skills as athletes as well as actors. Most of the cast had never rowed before but show considerable proficiency in ...