21 MARCH 1931, Page 40

" Sentiment is out of fashion. Yet Bitter Sweet, which

is nothing if not sentimental, has not been a dead failure. Thus we see that things that are out of fashion do not cease to exist. Sentiment goes on," says Mr. Max Beerbohm in his note to the folio of sentimental drawings with which he has commemorated the success of this romantic play. The drawings, Heroes and Heroines of " Bitter Sweet," are published by Leadlay, Ltd., 6 Clement's Inn, W.C. 2, at the price of three guineas (100 sets only, each plate autographed by the

subject of the caricature) and one guinea' - sets, not autographed).- Mr. -Noel Coward- stands " aware amidst shooting stars, searchlights and cigarette smoke. Miss Ivy St. Helier as " Manon " matches her cocktail with her frock, and Mr. Charles Cochran looks on with an inimitable and ;indefinable expressionlessness. These drawings are well :mounted on thin grey cardboard.