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Fifty Years Of Cinema

BORN a mere half-century ago, the art of the film was bound from the beginning by existing conventions of mass-cntertainment- novelettish conventions, stage conventions, the......

The Rise Of The Canteen

IT is difficult to realise that there are people living today who escaped by only a few years the fate of those poor wretches who as "parish apprentices" were dragged off at the......

Fiction

The River Line. By Charles Mor g an. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) EVERY fiction writer who is not merely paying out a rope of narra- tive faces the necessity of choosing and shaping a......