14 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 18

The Venice Festival

CONTINENTAL film festivals seldom pass with- out international bad temper and a lot of com- mercial publicity of 'cheesecake' or other varieties. The thirteen days of the......

Noble Timon

TIMON OP ATHENS. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) HOWEVER unsatisfactory Tinton of Athens may be as a play, it none the less contains some of Shakespeare's most mature poetry,......

A River Breeze. By Roland Culver. (phtenix.) The Savagery...

which some critics have mauled A River Breeze is hard to understand. Admittedly it is an undistinguished example of that old-style West End farcical comedy which Nathan once......

Sumptuous Catalogue

THE title of Indian Ballet is, of course, a mistake; as the forms of Indian music and drama differ totally from those of our civilisa- tion. so its dances. in their style and......

In The News

I HAVE been reproached for making no mention of Independent Television News in the course of a recent diatribe on commercial pro- grammes. I was only being tactful; when one is......