24 APRIL 1953, Page 16

" The Sporting Films " Sts,—J. P. W. Mallalieu argues in

.his entertaining article The Sporting Films that " an actor can act, but he cannot perform " and that, at least until the appearance of The Final Test, " the introduction of sport into films has been successful only when the sport was incidental." Hollywood, ahead of Anthony Asquith, provided a notable and very recent contradiction of these generalisations with the satirical film Pat and Mike, in which Katherine Hepburn displayed most con- vincing form on both the golf-course and tennis-court.—Yours