17 MAY 1935, Page 16

Devon Dunes

Sonic curious uses are made of the edge of the sea. I visited one area of rough dunes that has been famous, and indeed still is, for the number and rarity of the birds, insects and plants that have a natural home there. An essential part of it was being used for the stabling of camels and such plaguey wild fowl. It appeared that the area had been discovered to be an excellent desert, and a passable Pacific island, a wild corner of Asia or Africa or where not ; and we may presently find the . prickly pear—that unlovely pest—planted in an English scene with the object of lending " artistic verisimilitude " to the otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative of the. film.