It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.