29 JANUARY 1927, Page 28

This Week in London

1.11.; s nix ARCH PavirAox.—Faust. Impressive photographic compositions and some good acting from Yvette Guilbert and Costa Ekman. Jannings is nothing much here as Mephisto.

TivoLt.---Ben Her. Every time the heroine is off time screen this picture is good. The Chariot rats makes your heart stand still.

CAe1•rot..----21/idiurt Strogoff. Some good scenes in a lavish spectacle which is coloured with the hues of boiled sweets.

LECTURES •

The London Municipal Society and the National 'Union of Ratepayeis Associations have arranged a series of lectures on Local Government and Socialism in Local Government, at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, at 3 p.m., on*Mondays.

Tuesday, February 1st, at 5.30 p.m.—ARCHITECTURE : THE TRANSITION IN THF. TWELFTH CENTURY. By Professor Percy Deartner. At King's College, Strand. Tickets Is.

Wednesday, -February 2nd, at 3 p.m.—A meeting in support of the Women's Public Lodging House Fund at the Mansion House. Lady Violet Bonham Carter and Lord Hugh Cecil will speak.

Thursday. February 3rd, at 8 p.m.—DEVELOPMENTS IN BUILDING MF.THODs. By Professor C. 1-1. Reilly. At the Royal Society

Of Arts, John Street, Adelphi. •

Also at 8.15 p.m.—RKADINO AND THE THEATRE. By Mr. Ashley Dukes. At Mortimer Hall, 93 Mortimer Street, W. 1. Tickets from the Organizing Secretary, National Book Council, 30 Little RuSsell Street, W.C. 1.

Also at 8.30 p.m.—Foam?: LITERATURE IN ENGLAND. A diseussion. Sir Ernest Rena in the chair. Messrs. C. S.. Evans, Stanley Unwin, GeOffrey Faber and Allen Lane will speak. At King's College, Strand. Tickets from the Secretary, P.E.N. Club, ti Portman Mansions, Baker Street.