16 OCTOBER 1942, page 11

"tortilla Flat." At The Empire.

THE CINEMA Tiffs screen is a strait-laced medium and does not take kindly to the picaresque. When John Steinbeck wrote Tortilla Flat in 1935 he contrived that his hero should......

Art

The Leicester Galleries IF Michael Ayrton would persuade himself that painting is not all a matter of self-expression, and that humility is as important a quality in a painter......

The Theatre

"The Duke in Darkness." At the St. James's.— " House of Regrets." At the Arts Theatre Club. Film place must be given this week to Patrick Hamilton's truly remarkable play, The......