13 MAY 1949, page 14

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE "The Beaux' Stratagem." By George Farquhar. (Phoenix.) FARQUHAR brings up the rear of Restoration comedy. He appears to br marching in step with the glittering and......

The Cinema

"Criss Cross." (Tivoli.)—" The Bribe." (Empire.)—" Miss Tatlock's Millions.", (Carlton.)—" A Letter to Three Wives." (Leicester Square.) Criss Cross is a good, tough little film......

"black Chiffon." By Lesley Storm. (westminster.)

To shoot a rhinoceros dead is easier than to photograph it well. In this play, a very good one, Miss Storm evokes a monster of which our knowledge is—as indeed it once was of......