12 AUGUST 1955, page 17

Ballet

THE Festival Ballet gave the second of this season's novelties on August 8, when it pre- sented a fresh production of Harald Lander's Etudes, previously danced only by Copen-......

Cinema

VALUE FOR MONEY. (GRUMOIli.)---WE'RE No ANGELS. (Plaza.) Value for Money is very nearly an excellent comedy. Its hero is a Yorkshire rag merchant who has just inherited his......

Painting

REALISM AND ABSTRACTION Two important exhibitions have brought into view the Scylla and Charybdis of present art criticism—Tour French Realists' at the Tate, and a retrospective......