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A FINE PICTURE OF INDIA

AND ITS PEOPLE.

SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THE TABLE

GURAS WILLIAMS

By GLUTAS WILLIAMS

A FAREWELL TO INDIA. By Edward Thompson, London: Ernest Benn. Pp. 288. s. d. net. Mr. Thompson is one of those who have done something to extend and to illuminato our knowledge of India, but he has ne smug solution of its problems. His story opens in a corner of rural Bengal, and a first scene suggests that many of those who speak for India have not got beyond the non-essentials of Western civilisation. The chief character in missionary and teacher of twenty years' experience, a devotee who can pose as a cynic and quote Henley's "Life is, I think, a blunder, and a shanie," He and his follows are confronted with an imperious and reckless Nationalism"; they are surround- ed by anysteries and dangers, drawn te sympathise, provoked to rene- tions. There is much political de- tail, eloquent discussion from various points of view. Mr. Thompson does not undervalue the great work, done and doing, in dangerous and exasperating ir cumstances, by Englishmen in In- dia, aud he gives with emphasis, the Counsel of perfection: "You have got to remain decent, however in drcent the other side is." The group of English people described

Clemenceau is reported to have said that if he told half the truth of what he knew of the war "no man would ever fight for his coun- try again." Mr. Brooks has come to a few sharp conclusions about modern war which may be ULZII» marised as follows:--

War is a brutal chaos, governed by no lawa.

"Machines, not men, triumple

Veterans are men who have jearnt how to avoid danger and disobey orders else they would not be veteraJS.

Men are not made by battle- frenzy, into butchers and murder-

ers.

Men in battle do not hate the onemy.

Nor do mon in battle' die wil ingly for their country.

FIVE POETESSES.

Behind the issue of A Faggot of. Vorse by Five Women ́ (Sidgwick and Jackson, 5s. net) lies the tragedy of the economics of verse: publishing. For, on the evidence

are fine types; they are sensitive, of Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson, devoted, generally discreet; oe-based on the experience of the last casionally querulous, ecstatic, or fanatical. Here, too, are Indiana hundred gets his manuscript ne ten years, one verse-writer in a worthy of their friendship, and others who go far to justify the cepted. The succesful ones make on the average about £0 each, and question "Do you think a whole

on that the publishers lose £12. All pople can go mad together at one these five women were at first time 1" Another gestion is that among the rejected, but they were India has abandoned fnote in

rejected so reluctantly that the favour of abstractions. It is publishers decided on the venture of charge commonly brought against

Q co-operative anthology." That, the votaries of political freedom. however, has the disadvantage that. Of Gandhi Mr. Thompson, or his unless the contributors are of equal mouthpieco, writes as "a man who merit, the inferior stand to suffer had cerred to be one of us, and by a comparison enforced. And had become an elemental. being "there at bo no question that day of the Avo-Miss Elizabeth Holmes and Miss Aileen Barr-easily our pass the rest, or that their work and in full. That is so, though ouglit to be published separately Miss Holmes' cannot be completely judged, as it consists of extracts from a long narrative poem called Margaret But they are enough

he appreciates and he deplores,

fure among murderous ruffians, an

that

RICH WASTRELS,

FINISHES LAST SPOONFUL OF

DESSERT.

TRIES TO CATCH. MOTHER'S” EYE TO SEE IF HE CAN BE EX-, CUSED TO GO CUT AND PLAY

WEARILY RESIGNS HIMSELF TO WAITING. WATCHES FA- THER'S EVERY NOUTHFUL

LOOKS TOWARD PLATTER TO SEE. IF THERE'S A CHANCE OF A "SECOND HELPING. NONE

CAN'T CATCH HER EYE, TRIES FIDGETING, SCRAPING CHAIR AND OTHER INDICATIONS OF WANTING TO BE EXCUSED

GETS ALL SET AS FATHER, AF÷ TER WHAT SEEMS HOURS,

NEARS END OF HIS DESSERT

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

NOVEL OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE,

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LOOKS TO SEE WHETHER EVERY- ONE IS ABOUT. THROUGH. FATHER | IS GIVING HIS VIEWS OF THE YAR IFF BILL AND IS BEING VERY SLOW

LEANS OVER AND WHISPERS * CAN HE BE EX, 19 TOLD HE'S INTERRUPTING FATHER.

MOTHER'S CHAIR SCRAPES, GIVING SIGNAL FOR RISING

11-17

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

CALL OF THE FLESI"

manner.

"M. ABA."

Photography in colour, as applied. to the cineman, has without doubt Ramon Navarro is well worth madó considerable advance, but seeing at the Queon's Theatre. A whether it will eventually oust the talented singer as well as being an familiar tack and white movie is accomplished actor, he invents the part of a young operatic star with matter for conjecture, known as technicolour preserves the engaging personality and charm of original scene in very faithful and

He is at his best, per wonderful manner, it is true, buthaps, in the Neapolitan songs, imposes a greater strain on the oyes. The colour, in fact, has too but will please many also in the woven into the well written story,

One has the rather commonplace popular num great a brilliance. petually in the glare of a tropical rion. Ramon Navarro's perform impression of gazing at scenes per-bers specially written for the beca sus, and, after the first novelty has

ance provides a musical treat of the relief of the colourless film with its worn off, one begins to long for the rarer kind. It is a delight to listen.] cleverly achieved depths of light opposite Navarro, is irresistible. 'in to him. Dorothy Jordan, who plays

Renee Adoree, who fancies here!! "Mamba," a Tiffany her potite and rather wistful way, jilted at the hands of Juan and maestro, in less important roles, Ernest Terrance, as the dear old

O'Neil, Mathilde Comout and Bus deserve all praise as do also Nancy

of an artist and the sound is very sell Hopton in minor parts. The photography throughout is the work clear and faithfully recorded. . A

masterpiece.

way.

"ROMANCE."

Greta Garbo will make her second

BROAD ACRES. By J. Elizabeth Crunswick. London: Constable & Co. Pp. 12. Lovers of country life would do well to make a note of this novel, which in its naturalism, its sim- plicity and sincerity, carries on the true tradition of English pastoral Beton. The scene is Yorkshire, the people of the farming class, and the period the 'eighties, when a rovival of horse-breeding helped the farm- We are made to realise that a great

It is all very homely and close to ers to tide over some loan years, change has come over India.

It would hardly be possible for

the soil, and the characters fit ad one with Mr. Thompson's know

picture we feel to be authentic. The mirably into the background: the ledge and experience to write in

story, too, is just auch a simple and a purely artistic spirit. His book

natural one as we should expect and shinde. is full of criticism, oxplicit and im

an open-air story, devoid of sense-production recently shown at the plied. It includes desperate adsen.

tional episode, but dramatic in its Central Theatre afforded an oppor- appalling complexity of criminal and a clear originality of thought it, moreover, lies a wealth of refer at its best, the naturally attractive to prodnim the true poetic impulse quiet way, and satisfying. Behind tunity of seeing this colour process design. It is passionately argu- and expression. Miss Barr is pure- mentative and the interest in charly lyrical and less original, with alonged experience of the kind of the tropical nature of the acttings. ence, pointing to a close and pro- qualities of which were enhanced by acter is secondary there are a strict poetic visitation. But life described. The characters grow passages which indicate an im- aginative absorption in a great good deal of adjectival prunning, live with. The final peace is reach duced, and, accurately cast. Ralph The film itself, with its simple story though her verse would stand upon us; they are very pleasant to of love and bate, was well pro- subject. To the uninitiated there is ansitive work, and much ofed through tragedy, wrongdoing, Forbes, as the young German off- is a good deal that may seem tit has emotional significance. The and weakness, yet not one person incer, handled his part on strictly most enjoyable production in every Inck explanation, A chaos of opinion prompts the declarationhart, Miss Winifred Gill, and Miss this, too, is convincing: we feel African trader, gross and cruel, other three are Miss Isabel Butthe talu is unsympathetic. And Teutonic lines and in the role of everyone in Indin, British Heater Marshall, and Indina, seems to have gone

that they have been seen and under-Jean Hersholt achieved a minor hysterical.' Though the prospect

stood with the breadth of viow and

Eleanor Boardman is not hopeless in this liberal and

freedoni from prejudice which mark

succeeded in conveying nobility and humane review the book might be

the book's sanity and give it its recommended to anyone of dogmatic

agrecabio tone.

reserve as the cultured and self- It is an old-sacrificing daughter of a noble all-talking picture appearance on disposition as a corrective. And it A by no means delectable, picture fashioned world that is depicted, family. Iler. lincs, unfortunately, Sunday at the Queen's Theatre in is wisely said of one of the chari modern American life is to be and one that must now be passing did not help her, being singularly the celebrated Edward Sheldon ncters that he had won his battle, found in Mr. Kahler's Smart away. It had its faults, but to

dranin 'Romance," adapted to the trite and inane. However, there is which is add any man or woman can Setback." This book has wit of a some of us its virtues are more do-just win his own individual kind, but it is a little difficult to be apparent. At any rate, in those the usual happy ending. The lovers screen by Bess Meredyth and Ed. battle for his own generation, come more than mildly interested in pages, one is glad for a while to

are united, the villain is killed, and win Justus Mayer and directed by Clarence Brown. Gavin Gordon, a against his own problems and his set of rich wastrels whose one linger in its warmer, mollower the British flag floats victoriously,

newcomer to motion pictures, will own trials."

object in life seems to be the regular sunshine.

play opposite the star and the cast assimilation of gin. They drink

will include Lewis Stone, Elliott Nugiat. Florence Lake, AN AMERICAN'S. WAR STORY. cocktails all day and all night, an

Clarn Joue silly part follows another, and A bad fog like that experienced the Central Theatre tomorrow, is Blandick, Henry Armefin, Mathilde. it is a mere wisp of a story that a month ago cost London, at a [ big, tense, suspenseful drama, Coment and Countess de Liguoro. "As I SAW IT." By Alden Brooks. Mr. Kabler has to tell.

conservative estimate, £1,000,000 drawn on the background of the

"Romance" will be recalled as Alfred A. Knopf,

Hie Rylda is one of those young per day. Enormous damage is done underworld of New York's Harlem, the outstanding hit on the Now What Mr. Brooks saw of the war

women who are, apparently too to buildings by the soot deposit; the great Negro belt where seasa York stage in 1913, where it play- he saw clearly and directly. But as

"smart" to do anything but pro thousands of pounds are spent in tion-seeking Broadwayites go ted to capacity audiences with Doris an American he saw it, only in

vide the gossip writers with materi- extra lighting; through absent cus

dance shoulder-to-shoulder with the Keane in the starring role. Follow 1018; his view, therefore, has ceral for their daily columns. She has tomers and damage to goods; public inhabitants of the black metropolis ing a tour of the United States, the Its play was presented in London where tain limitations. He was attached husband who she despises, and transport companies are deprived to the beat of staccato jazz.

two children whom she rarely sees. of thousands of pounds in rovenue,

climatic scenes occur in the strange-it ran for three years. It was sub. tea French artillery group. is and a succession of wearisome and and railway companies are put to ly intriguing and exciting death sequently produced in France, only contact with the English was half-hearted lovers. after the German break through on

Life to her

enormous expense for extra staff house at Sing Sing.

South Africa, Australia, Italy, the the Fifth Army front, when he was means nothing at all. Then and supply of fog detonatora. Richard Arlen, the likeable youth | Scandinavian__countries, Holland,

Theatres, with the guns among some French portrait-painter (who seems to have

' restaurants,

Cer cinemas who thrilled audiences as the aero- | Roumania, Greece, Spain, troops called upon to fill a gap. no time to paint portraits) comes, ament the absence of patrons, aviator of the famous "Wings," many, Czechoslovakia, the Far There were occasional bitter do as they say, inte her life, and jok- while many pounds are paid in and Fay Wray, Erie von Stroheim's East, Russia and Hungry, and in vastating ouras against the Engngly boasts that he will give it doctors and chemists bills through lovely heroine in "The Wedding 1000 was made into a motion pic

by the French officers; but a plot." He becoines her lover illnesses caused by fog.

March," support the atar.-

ture-silent of course. this American saw something of for a little while, and suggests be-. that spirit which kept the scene coming her second husband, but he devoid of panic beaten as they takes to dressmaking. It seems thai is rather curtly dismissed when she were, these Englishmen, they re- fused to radiato dolent.

he has had a Narrow escape! That Afterwards r. Brooks saw the sages in the book, but it does not there are amusing pas Frenchmen who had cursed the leave a very pleasant taste in the. English for giving way themselves mouth. falling back in the great French

lish

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