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Cinema

The Purple Plain. (Leicester Square.)— Ripening Seed. (Rialto.)—Suddenly. (London Pavilion.) H. E. BATES'S novel, The Purple Plain, has been adapted for the screen by Eric......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE ne commis pas de sentiment plus mbar- rassant que !'admiration. Par la difficulte de s'exprimer convenablement elle resemble l'amour.' Thus Baudelaire, who for his sins......