18 FEBRUARY 1949, page 15

Art

MR. WALTER HUTCHINSON'S National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes was opened last week in the admirable eighteenth-century setting of Derby House (as was), in Stratford......

Sonnet Of Fish

Bright drips the morning froin its trophied nets Looped in a sky flickering with fish and wing ; Cobbles like salmon crowd up the waterfalling Alleys where life dies thrashing......

Music

RAFAEL KuirEux conducted the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on February rzth in a performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater which lias renewed controversy over the artistic......

The Cinema

" Unfaithfully Yours." (New Gallery and Tivoli.)--" Le Visiteur." (Studio One.)—" Blood on my Hands." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) MR. PRESTON STURGES has written,......

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