22 DECEMBER 1939, page 16

The Cinema

" First Love " and " Ducks and Drakes." At the Leicester Square.—" Our Neighbours—the Carters." At the Plaza. " Espionage Agent." At Warners. First Love is an honest fairy tale,......

Stage And Screen

THE THEATRE " Ladies in Retirement." By Edward Percy and Reginald Denham. At the St. James's Theatre. IN a large and architecturally improbable house situated on the marshes of......

Art

" The Spectator " and The Academy HALF a century ago, in December, 1889, I was summoned to the little old office of The Spectator in Wellington Street, by Waterloo Bridge. On......