15 DECEMBER 1961, page 20

Cinema

Literary Leanings By ISABEL QUIGLY Acapulco Film Festival. The Innocents. (Carl- ton.) Both are already loaded down with laurels and speculation; and both, it must be confessed,......

Opera

Without Principles By DAVID CAIRNS THE opportunism which eats like a canker at the heart of Strauss's genius is summed up in two incidents recounted, not without relish, in......