17 OCTOBER 1947, page 14

Nasturtium

By what ghost-ridden ways'you come, Red Riding Hood ; how prim and mum Under your sea-silk parasol Bejewelled with quicksilver rain You look for vanished peach and plum. The......

Art At The Lefevre Gallery Are Recent Paintings By Robert

Colquhoun. Colquhoun is now thirty-four, and occupies a rather special position among his contemporaries. Our present pre-eminence in painting in this country arises in part......

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......

On The Air With An Impressive But Somewhat Embarrassing...

the Third Programme last week presented Shakespeare's chronicle plays from Richard II to Richard III in historical sequence on six succes- sive evenings. The intention was, by......