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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1931. 11 "2Vt Random. Z3ie lectures. THE PROMENADE CONCERTS. "3Dramatl5 Ipersoitcfc! THE MOVIE FACES A CRISIS.

THE WEEK'S THEATRES. must be a long time before Its holiday; peace was broken Into by division St. Grouse has diminished honours In theso days, but Victorian and Edwardian, times It would have been hard to persuade legislators that anything was more important than the autumnal rites of sacrifice. British people," says a Glasgow paper, are supposed to be inseparable from porridge, bacon and eggs, and roast beef." Not on Channel crossings. A FINE BRITISH EVENING.

The London crowd is a wonderful thing, and it has never been ssea to better advantage than in this week of illumination. It was a continuous throng, fill log most of the central thoroughfares, and therein lay its difficulty for the police. But no crowd could have been in better humour or morn amenable to counsel; and there seems to have been no spirit of mischief anywhere. GliAXD WHAT BROADCASTING HAS DONE. Baum.

Knoblock. From a Dean Inge The greatest compliment one ean pay to a book je to put it down and think about it for while. I have reason to believe that my own works are especially valuable cases of insomnia, because 1 The variety and richness of British music was strikingly exemplified in last Thursday's concert. Parry, Elgar, Hantock, Bax, Bliss between the music that goes with the first of these names and that which goes with the last a difference of style was noticeable, so complete as to make the listener wonder whether the two musics belonged Indeed to the same art. The other three names bridged Ihe chasm, and in some explained the Immense change.

Of the three larger works, apart from Elgin's violin concerto, which to the other two. Is modern only In date, Bax'a Garden of Fand gave the impression of being 1he most perfectly achieved work of art, consecutive In thought, orderly in manipulation, with a (BY C. A. LEJEUNE.) Tlie opening of another de luxe cinema temple in London, in. which 1 lie film itself is among the humblest ot the amenities, coupled with the continued policy of a fifty-fifty stage and film show at the Leicester Square Theatre, and the world premiere of a new film on board the Homeric on Schneider Cup night, raises in an acute form the question of the stability of the screen.

What has happened to ih-e cinema that it needs us bolstering ni. himself with political ex-Unction. He hd steer the Ship of State oetween predatory financiers and a Irlcky and truculent Sheik whose oilfields were as Naboth vineyard. His only assets as a statesman were a prancing proconsular manner and a yearning to sit on a fence that wasnt there. His liabilities included an open road to the political wilderness, a sanctum as public as a railway station an insubordinate old butlPr who tootled the flule while his masler's career was burning, ami a scapegrace brother who made as free with his portfolio as with ins wardrobe, decorations, and identity.

ma-v nrt lmve persuaded us mat high politics are conducted in fact with qutle this inspired audacity but he writes well, has a merry mind, and the courage of his ironic convictions. Moreover, he introduces Just enough bureaucratic technique to give the affair a cachet, and manipulates Ins puppets as (hough their anlies amused him as much as, for two acts out of Ihree. thev uinusfid us. His Prime Minister. Kmhassv of ShPiks.

nil magnates, peltrcnat governors, and Slars and Garters were paraded with gusto, and we thoroughly enjoyed bolh Lord Oun-cislers predicament and his complacent surprise at being delivered from it by the scapegrace irw Nelsun touch Dishonours were easy tietweeti the high contracting parried to the agreement Hint nvertcd war. His I.nrdship got a vicarious darter: the Sheik security of frontier; the scapegrace a bride and a fortune; and the neior.s good pans, Mr. Anihony Ireland had must uf the fat, ami was unctuously ri-soiMvcriii as tin' capoxrace; Mr. Charles 1:111 son pranced well as ihe fool in oltlce; Mr. Sangslcr kept his vil.rant roun-m-1 as the Prime Minister; Mr.

I.ewin Man-n. Tint; wn-; an admirably picturesque Sheik; nnil, ns two pTonmsular lemnles. Miss Man Hintun ami Miss Joan Carol were decoraliie and romantic accessories H. H. Of course there was nothing to maffick about, but there are few large cities in which mobs of that size would not have devised their own occasions for disturbance.

Probably even the promoters were surprised at the response to their invitation. It is curious that people should be so anxious to see by floodlight at 10 p.m. a familiar building in an aspect not very dillerent from that which it presents by daylight at 10' a.m.; but what we see everyday we do not really see at all, and It is a good thing to persuade the public to look for once at the Abbey or St. Paul's with attentive eyes. There-is also -the new sensation of seeing London in black and white instead of in monochrome; and, most fascinating of all, of finding our solid Diary or ihe Wick.

TO-NIOHT. Embassy: "The Macropuloa Secret frevival). M0N1JAV. Puutlisea: "Blue Sky Beyond." The London theatre manages its business very badly. This week is usually regarded as the beginning of the autumn season, and there is nut a single production in the diary, whereas the following week there are six important new plays, and several clashes.

The latest 1r he added to the list Is Mr. Somerset Maugham's of his novel. The Painted Veil," due lo be presented at the Playhouse on Samrday, September 19. Miss Gladys Cooper will play the wife, and I understand (hat the play ends somewhat differently from the book. The author of Off the Map," lo be presented at tnc Little Theatre, on Tuesday iweek, is Mr.

Herhert Jones, an American who has lived jn London for nearly twenty years. He is Ihe auihor of five, volumes of poetry published by the Itudley Head, but this is his first play, a Mrong ilramaUc piece. Hi-: idea, for which came lo 1 1 1 ill when he was willing through Ihe Outer Hebrides. The scene is laid on a small island, is inhabited, hy a bird-watcner. am the actiun is the elach ol up7 What is going to become of it, as It relies more and more on "stunt" patron age and outside stimulus? Are the films worse than they used to be? Is the audi etice mure critical? You cannot spend week in the modern entertainment world buildings transformed into grey ghosts insubstantial pageants ahai might come from Prospero's dream.

Have oiten found my wife sleeping peacefully with one of my own books upside down on her knee. Why not the more charitable suppoelllonT An inquest at Camoerwell tile other day disclosed that the organs of the dead man were reversed heart and spleen on the right and liver on the left. That is a rare case in real life, but it is what happened lo the schoolmaster In Mr. Wells's story when he was blown Into the fourth dimension at least, that is tlie condition in. which he caine back.

He had In the interval, no doubt, turned himself Inside out like a glove( very much as a man might turn from side to side in his bed. Even in Ihe crisis of our fate the country is not down-lieatted. Mrs. N. West has just won a competition for eating jelly with knitting needles at Woking." Professor Reilly, writing about Liverpool in the Manchester Guardian," speaks of ita Mount Pleasant as (in these days) a slightly misnamed hill." Much the same might be said of London's Mount Pleasant, which, though a great postal centre, som-how fails lo arouse the finer emotions.

Birmingham also has a Mount Pleasant, about which it is not necessary to make a song, and there are grounds for believing bewildering mass of exqulslle detail unerringly marshalled. A performance better balanced would have caused the climaxes to sound less noisy, and so the calmer passages would have produced a gentler release of tension. As it was, the Trequent contrast between heaven-high emotionalism and subterranean quietude became, tiresome, more ihan the music seemed lo warrant or ihe work 10 need. The playing, however, was commendable, anil nothing Elena Mlramov. Ursula jeans.

Ivor Barnard. Hugh Williams. l.yn liimling. ie Ernest Milton. Marjorie Gabain.

Hfirolrt Scott. Georee Merritt. Griffith Humphries. Fulrlie. Philip Brandon.

Leonard Shtphord. i Baeil Loder. 1 1. .11 Clerk Hecinatd Atkinson. Vincent Rolman.

Gerald Caw. Batty Lynne. Edward Dacnall. Marffuret Tn'atrion. Alexander garner.

i Itaymond Masaey. Three Acls and Nirieleen more. mechanical .1 1 1 -r I he first time in nuv i much. It may not create in and does re ftrodiit-p- ll n' n.l various rooms in He i', i in. a manner to rival almost tlie iilrn's celeniy for, in Hie urief thouph they are'.

i on mechanics, the to reflect, Mihmjis tin' i'iat it hardly survives. there are perfectly dressed ami parts, and superbly ninr- ihnllod from Hie omsei by V-M-tnont, and acknowledge 1 Ma-si-v's productive mastery. I 'lie liolcl pupsts, lis liming. purposeful yet natural imiore. as arl should, at itc Hi reads of such plot a -1 11, i and skilfully woven; and ii the likening of Out) to life anil r-1 being a microcosm sense that we are wit-(l- fnrce of meehank'5.

raiher iiiu' drama, persiis and Hie action excite. i Oito -Br-" 1 Uirwi'1'' Dwtor 1 ma mi- jteLcrh'-n 2jiinrw i'r flcrsl" fcbvril: i pocl ir Holfl Fv' Anna 1 profr---" Fran H- I'bauff' It jramo. I dim I 1,: i i-j 'here i equipP-'J fltalifJ- 111 ihe Rasi'i--" arnva. Hi. 1 on pilllir aiv tyinh'ii' rie reoU ii-leath 'ho -i are rlfav.

I i.eesiDE at1" tnai an i-ij jiil; in without marshalling these questions in review, and the answers are ol enough concern lo millions of people up and down the world, and represent enough In cool cash, lo make them worth taking seriously. There is no doubt about it thai the movies are in a pTecarious position. From every corner of the industry you hear the same I ale of uncertain business of short supplies, slow response, insufficient support. The movies are having to make a tight for it and they are abominably equipped to fight. The men responsible Tor them have not even learnt to face the issue squarely.

They still labour under the could wholly eclipse, the beauty the splendid work liself. Everyman. "THE wills between this man and a band of crooks from HpHast, who are driven ashore in a storm. Although there is only one selling, the room lias been so designed by Mr. Aubrey Hammond, that il will be seen from different aiiylre in each of the three acts.

As announced a fortnight ago, Mr. Cedric Hanlwicke is ihe producer, and among the ntt-mbers of the company are Mr. Edmund Willard, Miss Lydia Sherwood, Mr. Austin 1 revor, and Mr. Richard Goolden CRADLE SONG." liy Mmitimlz siFRni.

laled hy J. t', iflllErr L'NIifHHILL. Trail It was one of Sir Hall Calne's foibles to cultivate his likeness to Sliakespeare (not ihe most decorative uf the Shakespenresi; and in the ear her century there as alw ays a sense uf strain netween Greeba and Stratford era-Avon where Miss Marie Corelli had tertain extent taken the llard under her personal protection. It was an amusing feature in a riva'ry Ihe course of which can he traced hy the publication of The Christian (H. 1897) uijd "The Master Christian" IM: 19u0i and 'The Elernal City (H.

t0ii2). ami Temporal power (M. IWlil. One can only wonder grimly how Miss Corelli would have retorted lo Sir Hall Calne's last work of all, The Life of Christ." It is a little alarming lo road of ibis posthumous work" Mammoth M.S. Life of Christ ns long as foily novels." We cannot hut recall the examinee who, questioned as to an incident in the Gospels, wrote: The Evangelists say little of litis episode, hut full particulars will be found In Farrar's Life of ns THE F.B.t;.

A GHOST Turrs op Coi.n Am." Daily Kxpross." That must be one of those low-brows pooh-poohtng Bach. The progress of science now makes It possible for a woman to have her face lifted one day and appear among her Norwich for the As You nichard The Maddcrmarket Theatre at has now fixed its programme eleven! season. It opens with I.ikp It." on September 21 and 'J his atiili.i litlle couu'dy js aptly named, for 11 does not so much tell a story as 1 foon a gcnile melody. Its charJclers. you may 1 he r.

are a small community of Spanish nuns, ihe foundling baby girl adopted hy them on the name-day of the an old doctor, and Hie young man to whom, eighteen years later, "the found that Manchester was once the site of several of them. Why have those pretty and promising names such a Falslafflan alacrity in sinking The Stratford policeman who lold the Court, On the back of his bicycle the defendant had a pillionaire a female," gives a new word to the language which we might almost have expected lo come by way or a printer's error. Pillionaire neatly suggests a luxurious but rather uncomfortable eminence. Mr. Marcuswell Maxwell, who has been describing in The Times his adven-lures in the Congo gorilla country, mentions a pride of Hons," but no other animal In his catalogue seems to have a specialised noun of collection.

Gorillas, In many ays, mainly in respect of the concerto and the symphony, Knday's Beethoven concert provided liner performances than the preceding Ihree of this season. The overturn Egmont was raggedly played anil at one Important clmnix Hie upper strings were at variance. improvement obtained during the accompaniment of I lie Violin Concerto, which was alert and reasonably precise. In the symphony (the Fourth) Ihe playing reached ils best state. Noihing better could lie wished for as regards siu-cerctv and fervour than Sir Heiiry Wood's reading of Hie score.

The gaiety of Hie first movement, the suave second, gaiety tempered wiih urgency in the third, and the vital energy of Hie fourth, these qualities were broadly sketched in, and then shaded and blended into a coherent, exhilarating performance. I he week hrourrht to bearing some good solo work. Miss Kathleen Long in Mozarl's major pianoforte concerto showed what 11 musical mind ran do with great music. Mine, p'ncjijri's playing of Bach's major violin coiiccrlo was an example of her finest, most equable and clear siyle of performance, willi an admirable breodlh of treatment and hardly any sense of hurry. Jelly d'Aranyi litis been heard twice, in 1 1 and in lleelhoven.

The first was de-lighlful, the secoiiii had nohility as well. In each work one realised it was Ihe same player (and glndlyl, in earn that ihe composers were lalkinc a different language. In other wonts, the soloist was in full command not onlv of the noics, but of the music also. In Elgar's violin concerto delusion that a III is interesting as a sheer piece of mechanics, irrespective of ils conleiil, whereas fur years past the average film bus been tolerable as an entertainment only because the average play has been so much worse. But now the Ihealre is speeding up.

getting rid of ils pauses, coming direct into the competitive field, and Hie radio, at the same time, is supplying an efficient alternative. For the first time in its history Ihe cinema lias got to stand on its own merits or go under as an enlertainmcnt and the issue is still in doubt. The film industry iias chosen Hits one critical moment lo meet ils creditors with the poorest quality of films supplied in years. Willi ihe exception of an odd film like "The Front Page" or "Quick Millions" the general standard of production is contemptible. Only Paramount Is turning out anything like a regular supply of 111." is to lie staged next June, with Tilus "Andrnnlciis in a stylised production with a Hyiantine selling as an Elizabethan shocker ju-l lieTore Clirislrnas.

'Other fixtures are Geurg Kaiser's expressionist drama, I'rnin Morn to Midnight," which will probably he more al home on the Elizabethan stuge than The Importance of Being Earnest." to be presented in January. Mr Shaw is represented by "Anns and the Man," Tolstoy by "The Power of Darkness," and Sierra and Hie Qiiintern Brothers occupy the bill for a week in March. Alrogellier there are nine productions. In addition Mr. Nugent Monrk has arranged another series of special first performances 111 Hie Maiiderinarket.

included are an evening of inliinate eigliteenth-cen-lury opera, kivcii by Mr. i'reiierick Wond-bouse. Mr. (ienflrey Dunn, and Miss Mabel Uiuluo. Mr.

Boris Orel in a harpsichord recital, an English puppet show, and a fiance rceiial by Miss Eileen uUune, a young 1 ianish-Auieri can art i si. ing is happily betrothed. The dialogue lias Hit- quality ui a trickling fountain rullied by Hie wind in a qinel garden, or one of those Inarms of the saints sung the comeul's virginal inmnti-s. let sutii is Martinez Sierra ait Hint i-hariii ler is as sharply denned and ennnicm as clearly expressed as though its pious alarums and excursions eie dramatically secular. It charms, indeed, no less hy its continuous plauisong than by the state pictures it presents.

And although the first night performance had scarcer, the even Inmr of the writing. Mr. Kilmers producliun anil some of the individual st.iutes were good ninugh 10 reveal lis inherent beauties. Miss Barbara I'noress was charminglv and felt. Miss Christine Silver's Sister Johanna of ihe Cross admirably charged wiitt eniDium; and, ol the rest one recalls with pleasure Miss Heaince Wilsons authoritative Vicares-.

Miss Marie Anil's Sister Inez, and the brave essay or Miss Zlllah Malcolm wlio friends Hie next." That comes just in time for Tuesday, when Sir. Snowden wV.l depress all our faces. The 8th. fin which Parliament meets, is the centenary of the coronation or William and on lliat occasion also a good deal was heard uboirt economy. William, one of whose few guiding principles i intelligent goods, ami a man or any wit or discrimination may be forgiven for lak- ing his entertainment outside the cinema.

What, for instance, can he find among the new productions in London this week? He can go to the Leicester Square iind- see as a sovereign was to do as nearly as pos Albi'it Sammons once again gave us, hv elephants, bunaloes are ail nerds, though the gorillas are sometimes "bands." A "gang' or a "grasp" of gorillas would at least oe alliterative, and herd might with equal cause be apportioned to the hippo. Manchester Is not going to be precipitata ab'jut this economy business. There was a meeting of the City Council on Wednesday, which considered tlie following Lord Mayor's viBit to Amer.jca objections on ground of economy withdrawn. Motion to-reduce salaries of officials receiving over 700 a year rejected. Housing contracts approved saving of 3,000 ignored." Protest against proposal to Tela in service of a superannuated chief engineer on special allowance overruled.

Deputation to Sheffield to investigate methods of pig-killing number reduced Constance Bennett pose fur the not quhe Thi ni.Tv hypercrilicism: il ail de-pnds cn 'ml vuii expect of the tliealre. for -Jnle r. milil be possible, in fact, tu ichleo mi, "1 of this sense of deducing Iramsurji a 0: of life a similarly Scutiaus cni-'Xt, the illumination here js -electicp an I lie1 diagrams are purposefifl. Moreover, ihe principal characters are Kepi imliui dramatic bounds, and Dre e-k" pl.iyid. One nous, for 111--tance, ihe planning conviction with which Mioj Lrsiila Jeans invests Ihe adventuress ivpist.

livsii'nl heauly and lack of moral are merely her wapc-i-jrainR 1 the wnli which Mr. Ern-t Millun imposes the VKictnr as a memeatn in on the piece; Mr. Hugh liinvant mdiviriuality as the roung tkeun wlni lives by h.s wits and dies of litem: ami -n Willi half-a-dozen others. Such jlimpsps as Mir.imova affords us of ie Pavlova I dancer suggest tliat the ffiginal rhararier had considerable rhanii tiere are several self-supporting and well-Irsmausril notably that in which Baron, having entered the room or tin-iSmcer, steals 11 her pearls but her hcarl; an in ivh.rh Mr. Ivor Liarnard.

as the iAl; rlerk gambles his belated way 10 jit and lov-; ami such parenthetic snapshots as that winch shows tis an upstairs -sndiDg at ruEhl Miss Betty I.ynnp's iiftp cliairibermaid tempering ind'uslrial ttnh human sen time nt. some mingling ol unnerslanding. know- i nude in "The Common Law" He ran ledge, sympathy, or whatever, an ariounl to the Pavilion and see Kathleen O'negan of the Ihree movements hich seemed to take a nrison sentence in order in ninke hei- eave nothing unsaid sible the opposite of his brother on every occasion, stinted ostentation as much as his predecessor had insisted on it, and The OasEiivER ot the time computes that the whole ceremony cost lefts than George the Fourth's crown. But this frugality did not please all tastes; and for weeks the papers were full of oomplatnls from ighted magnates and aldermen deprived1 at such siioil nonce. if- H.

With so many experimental I heal res I there is less need for Ihe Sunday producing SARDOU CENTENARY. convn-t luislmnd feel comfortable in The Shadow Between." He can go to the Capitol and see a film which has been closely guarded even from the critics. Their Mad Moment." He can go to the Plaza for even Paramount has let us down this week and see the terrible effect ot a Paris training on an artist's soul. He can go to the Academy and see Betty Amman's admittedly charming legs in Warsaw." But THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. or tneir perquisites societies.

The Repertory Players, however, continue to carry on successfully, and every vear finds one or Iwo plays that are ransfciied to the ordinary Iheatre. The society will begin operations Ibis year on September al Ihe Savoy Theatre, with "Just Anotticr Day," a slrong dramatic play eight scenes by Mr. C. Stafford Dickens. M.

September is. as a rule, the monlh most Iroin li to i. There is at least the thin end of the wedge. Obsertwor. Immune from Parliamentary activities.

A FAMOUS VICTORIAN DRAMATIST. and (with the exception of the War) it is it likely that lie will be reinforced in his loyalty to (he cinema by any -of these MR. MAGINTVS "ANTIPIION THEORY. with Mr. Charles Caisnn as producer.

It is I a triangular piece with husband, wife, and to iiiksc I believe lhat the cinema is playing a very dangerous game at a highly critical the husband mistress ns the chief characters. There is a murder, for which the husband is wrongfully accused. The company includes Mr. Robert Holmes, Mr. Eduanl Chapman.

Mr Henry Hewitt. Mr. llcermn Miss Retty Hardy. Miss Agnes Tam ilian, and Mr. Hnbb Wilion, ur a '-011 tlie well.

known music hall cine dinri. nioiiieiii. The movie audience of to-day is I not the audience of pre-radio days. It lias listened to a great deal of claptrap, but (also a great deal of wisdom from that little box of Hicks, tin: ireless set; It has got from it knuwlrdge and experience, a lot of couimonsense and a familiarity with Mr. Knol.Ir.rk lias adapted Ihe play in- nnsonily.

and is up i0 us i-j collaborate filMurn ihe actcrs by supplying some Jl the itnaginauve Ifiiipius, atid arusing ci-riain narrative liesitalioit. R'ailersol iv, honk, primed niomun detail, will duuLitiess he 111 a stronger position 10 rfr, sr, are we who approach play ess notified. As an example or siage technique, the piece is r'markaUc; in 1s performance suggests nu. Jn conmon with the film's later de- technique calls for its Tlte mechanics are aram. ma5lery; Hie aclors lire niii re than capable.

We feel Yesierday was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Victonen Sardou, He had to rehtiquish the study or medicine at an early age, uwmg to want of funds, and after a haul a niggle he Lad lus tusi play 1 1 i'i ji 1 1 1 1 at ihe inleou in Jho. in h-cimi'iuc In- lias been described as heir S-TjI-e. rti'l for many years he can he said to iiuve duminaled the slaves j( Kui ope. lie was ihe past-master of ihe well-made puiy," the type of drama that as strenuously attacked in the nineties by Mr. Shaw, who wrote a good deal ahoul Sardoodledum and said of Delia Harding," winch, was produced at the Comedy Theatre in Api 18113, that it was the worst pkty I ever saw.

Sardou's plan of play- nting is first lo invent the action of Hie piece and then to carefully keep off the siage and have it announced merely by letters and lelegrams." Manv ot Sardou's Lave. heen and courtesy. The cinema has got i to face the fact of the radio, not only as a rival entertainment, but as a formative force for criticism; has got to face It, and accept It, and reckon with the new audi-' etice that the radio has prepared. (By A. H.

Fox Strangways.) who values the melody of our national anrheiu as a thing liinily built on the part will a elciine the letter of Mr. E. A. Maginty in yesii rday Tini'-s." We cniinot have loo many "origins." They all go lo pi nve its stability and security. God Save tlie King is a folksong, il ever there was one, and its true origin consists in iiiu act i lint it has no one known origin.

Mr. Magiuly gives as Ihe source the Arttiphon. I'nxeiunt," and his case would have been even belter If lie had taken this from Ihe standard Aniiphonal published by Dcscleo ip. jilj, Uul it is not a vi i good rase. Il i- doiibilui if iuiyuue ho sang uxe: according to Ihe sense of Ihe winds and Hn-re is no oilier wuiy l(f singing plainsung would he reminded or God Save the King." It is mil Hie variations lhat would put bun off the sreni.

They are easy enough. II is where Ihe main accents and the divisions come. The words are sung thus: -hi from ao a more daizltng new bottles should irklmg, a lieadier wine H. H. aiLihici into and he actually vrot-' fvery car on the previous Sunday ihe Arls Theatre re-opiens ith a revel, in which there will be seveial short skebhes and a number of individual jleins.

It will be a house-warming for the auluinn season, wliich starts on with the first of len performances of Behold the Bride." in which Miss Mary Newcomh. who has recently returned from America, will appear. Early in October Mr. L. H.

Partem will present, in association with Hie Arts Theatre, ihe dramatisation of Mr. Evelyn novel, Vile Bodies." a play which has failed to receive Ihe Lord Chamber la m's licence for public per fortnanoe. The tlraflon Theatre will re-open to Ihe public on September with a revival of East l.ynne," a play thai is unknown to many of the younger gen era lion, tin Sunday, September -ii. however, i here is to be an evening of one-act plays and varieties. A lorinight later the first of the tireen Room Rags will lake place at Ihe Shaftesbury' Theatre, and the same dale lOrtober 4) has been fixed for Hie hist porlormnnce.

at the Embassy Theaire. of Mr. Oliver Baldwin's myshraJ play. From ihe Four Winds." Martin's. -Tin-: Hv There seems to be a curious Impression in Itic industry that the critics should help them, or could at least be persuaded to help lliem, through this particularly bad lime.

But why? suggest, in all modesty. that some of us may have ihe inlelligence I that may even be the reason for our holrt-j ing down our jobs lo know when a film is good or bad. and the strength of mind to i slick to our opinion. We all have VOUXG IDEA." Nuel Coward. imanufectured Ttixeriml Snlnmrtnem I andoe sncirdos et I eauiiesses-some or us mstrust i I Russian films, some dislike British in Gihon Hobesjueri in lUtii expressly for Sir Henry Irving, who also produced Sarduu's Uanle a translation made by Mr.

Laurence Irwng; al the l.y, 011111 ihe following year. Ihe Jlr-t to be staged in tin-luuntry was l.es I'aties de Mourhe." which was performed Jn a vers'nii by Mr. J. 1'. Simpson, under the tille of A Scrafi of i'aiier," at the St.

James's Theatre as lonr ago as It has been revived secral limes and a new version hy Mr. l-'redci irk J-V'i'i was produced at the Cn lei ion in ltd i In the muifls of modern playgoers Sardou's name in Krigland is connected mamly Hli "Diplomacy." which was based on llora," and produrcd hy the Hanerorts al lb-' Garrii Theatte on "January li, 1ST8. The company included Mr. and Mrs. Ken prophetn regem v.

lio emerge, like Ihe god-a. a- warriors fully armed; Icy are masters without As Mr. Chesterton once uruahsm, so Mr. Coward into the theatre and imme-" ') Young Idea wa by Vauxhall There a re 'ifts fmiu the Wgt'i lalo ItK IllS ''laieiv sum ai' sp-rirsiM "fain, we innaie "vi of 10 the firmly 'Ir. Cc.

.1 1 noti fy iould Motors Ltd. films, others positively cringe from the sight of Wheeler and Wolsey or Robert Montgomery but on the whole there never was a time when the standard of film criticism in this country was quite so honest or so high. When the movies get belter we will give them a kinder introduction lo Hie public; when the director or the slar does his job well we will say so; but until Hollywood and Wardour-slreet lenrn to look after themselves we shall not feel in the least compelled lo save them from disaster. WWUXHAtlul CADET rfr There is every likelihood Hint Mr. Neil I Grant's i otnedy, The Ncl-uit Touch," will I Were he 10 write 1- experience to back the lilting llippanry 10 Ihe I on 1, 1 jive more liiimuiii ii Miss Jane Millican now inly run ts and some sub-1 ol a part in which siduds ami ajts, '-hl'ortumiics.

iso fie dal, and the play was an immediate suc Out lie and this only portly coincides wllh the an enls and divisions of Hie tune wc know. The cadence, where the tune seems to go off Ihe rails, need give no anxiety; any composer or adapter would be justified in giving his own. Mr. Magmty's surmise as to how plainsung came lo be national song opens tori many questions To be of much value. The derivation ol "God Save Hie King from Lnxerunt is closely paralleled by the derivation of the Meisiev-singer tune from the old Jewish melody.

Of both derivations it may be said. Cnci'tiJ vient d'eq-uus ans doute; Mni3 il fnut avouer Que, pour nrriver, 11 a birr, do, changer de route. The value nf Mr. Maginty's discovery ts not lhat it is Ihe origin, but that it is one more strand in a woven fabric. Other slrands are Shenanuoah (verbal re-soiiancel.

Hull's air (ihe gnlliaitl form, and Hie earliest printed version, 'May, nut. ITi.i (that fine upstanding close, now unfortunately discarded). ThPse together make the finest of our fine folksongs. SOME NEW FILMS OF THE WEEK. be ra li reri'ed to a theatre soon after li leaves Uie Embassy at Hie end this week.

It is being replaced at Ihe Swiss Cottage iheatre by llun't Leave It Ton Long." by Miss Plnlljppa Tumuin, in which Miss Joyce Bland makes her re appearance. Among ihe oilier plays thai will be presented this season arc Mr. Si. John F.rvine's "Anthony and Anna." a dramatisation by Mr. Howard Peacey of Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Britannia or Billingsgate, by Miss Christine Jopp-Slade and Mr.

Sewell Spikes; Oueer CaiUc." by Mr. Philip Johnson, and revivals of The Mask and is filled and tested on CASTTimciDIL The Common Law (Leicester-square). Atioleacent Hollywood' ateat game ot peek-a-boo with the Censor; an argument for marriags that la played by Constance Benmtt and her (earn with an artleBS mixture of the sophisticated and the ingenuous. cess. It has been reviveri once in every years since that date, and the last Ihree revivals have had runs of 17j, 4j5, and Sfij Torn lail ci s.

Jsarn toTl gave for the riurhts of Dura." at the time the highest price that had ever been paid for a foreign work, hut it proved one of his most profitable investments. In his memoirs Hancroft gives an Interesting an ount of a visit to Snnlou. who lived in an old house outside Paris. He describes the dramatist as a small, nr. vnus.

lean, and sorry man. shabbily dressed, wearing nn old snmkin-cap. his Hirnai F'nvclnpe 1 in a white silk mufller rt lottj'Hfrs s.jiifnr. he hein' a rnarlr to neuralgia. jlis head 111 Iho-e when he wris only rorty se'eu.

struck Unas a mixture of familiar pmnts in pictures of Napoleon, Voltaire, and a typical Jesuit father, while his smile was almost as telling as Henry Irving's." In Sardou's fame rests chiefly nn Fedora." and the other plays he wrote expressly for Sarah Bernhardt. He died in I'aris on November 8. 11 L' find The Tragedy Hie of Nun and vou are Warsa-w (Academy). A Polish film built for Uoris- Somhorski on the lines ot Jan-nings'a The Way of AU and fitted with a synchronised core and occasional vocal irruptions Bomboraki can act. but the picture is quite seven j'ears old in thought, and the management would be well advised lo try its luck as a silent among the productions of ita own era.

The new rdilion of Ihe popular revue, Folly To Be ulnclt is returning to 1 1 its Piccadilly Theatre on Tuesday week after a successful tour, will Include The King'o Navec." with Miss Cicely Court-neidge and Mr. Nelson Keys as naval officers and Ihree sketches entitled The King Can Do No Wrong," Mrs. Potter Prevails and The Voice That Came -i'i us i no ti-n heavy in the last act. pre. ocmii.s children, ho 11 1 of Iiohenna Pi ie-r rroni Horseback Hall to old not be bettered.

The 1 company table stuff. Miss Ann ArtSiur Macreo get their i -'hr, Mr. Coward would in, of ihcm otherwise. ii'hnirable throughout. 11 night of my visit i r-H-r.

who shoiv ed his Mr. Parker the canine and should not, of ihe stage at ail. Miss iier, is quite anuis-; le el of In esiock 10 the first and clever hunting husband from Leicestershire, I 1 mile of fluff; tins I Surely the lady wins s''X-appeai. and she 'I ml'hp which Mis-a few faults of pro--pat kle of Hie piec. Ui I'niloi It to pre- ha are loo miterniL'- Mi--: I nil their a ncr, may he I -i i hi ipl on is not Mi-i Pollock intone I 1 i j's son of r--cu-.

liloonss in Jv. Brows. Savings of tb iPeek. tlaira l.ibeny Ha! hailina niaible Trevor a', surelv Mr. a view Hie "I'll- 1,,.

Celia lnS eie.lt -is; 1., Miss 1 "He to he -clays l4e 1.. '7 an ii, i. tinh'V a h. 'iroric ii r'sy lot- ''it tli. ''i eye.

recommended to continue Tt is nnt the j'oiinf people who have taken the bit between teeth but the middle-HEPd nnd old whu have dropped the reins HAS HASTINGS A HARBOUR? Monte Carlo (general release). Lubitach's best adventure in comic opera, from which hU "Smiling Lieutenant" could take point? rcil commcntative use sound arid a fine display of technical fireworks. Mis-s Isnhel Elsorn, Mr. Keneth Kent. Miss Drusiha Will, mill Mr.

Carl Harbord are in the cavt uf Blue Sky Beyond." opening at tlie King's. Son lb sea. to-morrow iight, prior t'j production in Loudon at a laicr dan-. Whello-r -iMms is 11 tbp harbour al ill harbour within tlie nierinintf was a problem left unsolved by iites ester I la y. rose hen it youth an charged old A its use the Hast mi: 'I he I EL Mr.

fjddfrpv Toarle CtVARRON (general release). A pioneer people that is u. bit movie withnut. refinement story of a of real raw on the Ta-marruw fv wiii tnke iti in J-aie Nigh stealing provisions froiu a nslnnp bout. pointed out a theft from a boat in WUl It 1 mm tab fdjtur mil." Mr, itaymond ward direction with a pood the blirliour IllLlll llivuive rriai "tie j-rerun whn has piaymg (fits cimrac- the players reins firm handling by one of the films to see.

at the Assizes. Whether the harbour was Mil) a haThour nr the niag in iile were unable to dt-Llile, and was remanded f'-'t a week. ttr, li sliorly Milling Jo Nrw York, where he wjII appf-ir as Hamlet this autumn. There will he sfVi.ral Knylisfi artar3 lite whirh IricLurts-s Mr. I.r-nn OuartrTrname.

refused to puide. Canon Peter CJreen. Landing on nne'a dignity is the pinnacle of ftl absurdities. Mr. Hegitiald lierkeleij.

Tlie real inmhlc wiih exercise is Ihnt it can Uffotiie a rchgum, nnd nut a recreation. Mr. $ornan ft. Collins, The pmper ptnre for pyjama girls Is in bed. The ftev.

W. Marshall Selwyn. Nothing is leas tn be lamented than an opinion unce held, and changed. Mt. John LTinkieate.T.

Very few Englishmen realise that when they crosa the border they are in a different pL.untry with different traditions. Dr. Greenhouse AiH, Christ a nit consists in deeds rather than oiiitiinuFi, and in a Itle raiber than in a system. Zr. i3er rrj Deartucr.

I do not read sn murh philosophy and iheolntry rs 1 ueed tn because if 1 agree with the writer I knrnv nirPt ol what he wanta To icll me, in'l if 1 rl'j not his arpuments mate no i mpreF on hip. Dean Inge, Crime in the films has been wiped out. Mr. L. J.

Zukor. Wowtk Lov Oxce Plaza). One cf those clinging, treacly bits of wife and mother- CASTROL A A IN SUMMER CASTROL CW IN WINTER KnratiO: was thp I In ni Ipl Mr i'lin Krilh Johnston (who I'i irtc in tlie modern dress a in Mr. I-iiH. Home, as the "THE TOL'CIT." FREAKS OF NATURE IN ESSEX Ml.

I Essex revealM i-ifrni'-s Thf1 imitcU Klirodorn," mtU al Daly'5 ntjxt Sfiiuril-iy and following the crjuipiii y. -li inrJmlPs M- love tnat are popularly supposed to, and penerally do, make strong men weep act-in fj and direction far beluw Par amount's ard. Tke Phatow "Betwf.cn (Pavilinn and A British, talkie of a number of sterling ppnpLe who are r'ady, and anxious-, to go to prison foT one nnother's crime the slory is pli ft i tig and totally free from suggestion even the modest suggestion an idea git Mrvri seasnni iii 1 1 I i i I r.f imp, portrait of As Sorrp-Kast ho was 13 i 1 1 spr the country or CWakefield Co. AII-Brltish Firm, Loadoa 1 cii'ore GraM, sturl ri lour at Go'ders I Iitmpii. c.ei!in rotnrns Jar a lort- rjitftu on the lolloping Monday.

I G. B. f.lLj'ii cm waiec nmne fcinrneinen gi-i-ijj; rk -h: 5 near Salcot; and Vi tree in fu.lt blossom jeea 8t i.