2 MAY 1952, Page 5

"April 21st. At last ! Don't Miss It! 'HAMLET '-

the Play of the Famous Film." This advertisement from a Yorkshire paper is stimulating in its significance. The public mind is working all right, and this is how it works. T. S. Eliot writes "Murder in the Cathedral." The play is filmed, and a new, and no doubt, better "Murder in the Cathedral" is evolved from the screen version. Now, no doubt, we shall get a new and better " Hamlet " tightened up and brightened up by adapters who will have done for Shakespeare what he could never have done himself. While on this, let me mention honourably too the advertisement of Rome as a tourist centre- " The City of 'Quo Vadis,' " or words to that effect.