19 APRIL 1940, page 16

The Cinema

"Of Mice and Men." At the Odeon. THERE are times when the unfortunate film critic regrets the many adverbs and adjectives which, faute de mieux, he has lavished on the general......

Stage And Screen

THE THEATRE " King Lear." By William Shakespeare. At the Old Vic. ONE of the least disputable remarks that Lamb made about the English theatre was that " Lear is essentially......

Music

Soviet Symphonies NEW music has been sadly scarce since last September and, since there is a limit to one's stock of ideas about the round dozen of symphonies by Beethoven and......