18 MAY 1956, page 16

Angry Romantic

LOOK BACK IN ANGER, By John Osborne. (Royal Court.) IT has not been very often in recent years that we have seen a good first play by a young author on the London stage. Still......

Contemporary Arts

Cosy Calm To return to the mannered calm of English television after a spell in New York is at once cosy and crueL There, something like 500 hours a day of entertainment,......

Archaic Sophisticate

Two exhibitions by Italian artists coincide London this month; the sculptor Marini holding an exhibition at the Hanover Gall and ten realists are on view at the Leien stc '......

The House By The Lake. By Hugh Mill (duke Of

York's.) THE thriller in novel form has to be watel tight of plot and well-nigh flawless in acne if it is to attain even moderate success. In he theatre it can be ill-shaped,......