10 OCTOBER 1947, page 12

The Cinema

ALTHOUGH here there is ample scope for whimsy and boundless opportunity for sentimentality, The Big Heart, beating with com- mendable caution, manages to avoid the more obvious......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE "You Never Can Tell." By Bernard Shaw. (Wyndham's.) FIFTY is not normally what you might call a flattering age for a . play, particularly if it is a light comedy.......

Music

THE Vienna State Opera season at Covent Garden and the series of chamber-music concerts at the Central Hall have both come to an end, and, after the mild diversion planned by......

"romeo And Juliet." By William Shakespeare. (his Majesty's.)

SHAKESPEARE (who also owes much to his style) is responsible for Romeo and Juliet's revivability, but our interest in a new production of this play is usually enhanced or......