17 OCTOBER 1947, page 13

Music

LAST Sunday's concerts gave an extraordinarily vivid bird's-eye view of the distance that the art of music has travelled in a single life- time. At Drury Lane there were works......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE "The Man in the Street." By Geoffrey Kerr. (St. James's.) SIR EDWARD HARICALONG is a newspaper proprietor, and the curtain has not been up many jninutes before we......

The Cinema

"Fame is the Spur." (Leicester Square.)—" Bataille du Rail"— " Partie de Campagne." (Academy) ) IT is doubtful whether politics lend themselves with any grace to drama. The......