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made all the difference to Jon Hall. He had the touch of “ wildness ”—a freedom of movement and a lack of self-consciousness in the scanty clothes he wore—that was essential, yet not easy to find. Another star who was made by a single film was Nova Pilbeam. Without anjj previous film experience, she stepped into a most exacting part in “ Little Friend when she was fourteen years old, and gave a performance that experienced players might well have envied. Against such polished performers as Matheson Lang, it would have been only too easy for an awkwardness and amateurishness to have been obvious. But there was not a trace of either in her portrayal of the little girl who dimly realised that there was something wrong between her mother and father and without knowing why, connected it with her mother’s friend, whom she hated despite the fact that he went out of his way to be charming to her. Since then Nova Pilbeam has grown up. But she proved that her first great performance was no flash in the pan by her successive work in “ The Man who Knew Too Much,” “ Tudor Rose,” and her first “ grown-up ” role in “ Young and Innocent," which she has followed this year with her second “ grown-up ” role in " Cheer, Boys, Cheer ”—incidentally her first comedy. Some of these parts that have lifted players to fame have been incidental to the story—little cameos that could well have been left out so far as the development mattered—but which made all the difference to the entertainment value of the production in which they appeared. Joan Davis, for instance, had a comparatively small role in which she appeared for a few minutes in her first film. It had nothing whatever to do with the story, but her brief appearance in an eccentric dance, which ended by her giving herself a hefty punch on the chin and knocking herself out, was riotously funny while it lasted, and made the public call for more. Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford, although they did, to a certain extent, have some connection with the story of ” The Lady Vanishes,” also could have been left out without much harm being done to the plot itself. But many people I kpow considered that their work as the two Englishmen whose sole concern during the entire course of the thrilling and mysterious events wlych 'took place on the train which was taking them to England, was whether they would reach England in time for the Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford in “ The Lady Vanishes.” Left ■' John Beal and Helen Hayes in “ Hat, Coat and Giooe.” Alan Mowbray with Irene Purcell “ The Man in Possession. ’ Gloria Dickson, a background in l, hat, Allyn Jos - They Wont F 140