10 FEBRUARY 1950, page 14

Music The First Performance Of The Final Version Of William

Walton's new violin sonata was given at Drury Lane on February 5th by Yehudi Menuhin and Louis Kentner. It is in two movements only —one predominantly lyrical with dramatic......

A Gorse Record Local Critics Have United In Elplaining That

the alleged continuance of the gorse flower is due to the presence of two sorts of gorse that have different flowering dates. They are doubtless justified in giving 'out this......

Tit V. Sparrow More Than One Of Those "whom Towns

immure," especially London Town, has expressed wonder at the diminution, here and there the disappearance, of the sparrow. Can it be true that this impudent, friendly,......

Country Life

I CAME across the other day a singularly Pepysian extract from the Diary concerning St. Valentine's Day, February 14th, 1667; "But I am also this year my wife's Valentine ; and......

Cinema

ci Golden Salamander." (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — " That Others May Live." (Cameo-Polytechnic.)—" It's a Great Feeling." (Warner.) BECAUSE much is expected of Mr. Ronald Neame, his......

In The Garden

A most charming little book of drawings of old Stevenage, now to be smothered, called A Stevenage Picture Book (W. H. Smith and Co. 4s. 6d.), ends with a picture of Six Hills......

Home - Keeping Emigrants

Another bird query concerns the refusal of small migrants to emigrate. It is roundly asserted that the blackcap, the nearest rival to the nightingale in song, has been seen this......