16 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 15

A HELPING HAND FOR THE FAMOUS. [To THE EDITOR OF

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is a platitude that the film is the high road to fame, and now it is giving a helping hand to the dead. Among the novels in a second-hand bookshop I found several copies of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde under a placard worded " The story of the film." But the cinema is not to be alone in its generosity. I have seen Boccaccio labelled " The story of the revue running at Drury Lane." But perhaps this Giitterdammerung is no worse than the days when Shakespeare was a setting for Sir Herbert Tree.—I am, Sir, &c., BERTHON A. Maarrg.