19 DECEMBER 1947, page 13

Music

BEtsLIoz's Requiem was given its second performance of the year on December loth at the Albert Hall, whose rotundity is the only thing against it for a performance of this work.......

Contemporary Arts

THE CINEMA " Shoe Shine." (Rialto.)--" Monsieur (Academy.) ITALY has given us another despairing appendix to Open City. Once again we stand accused, and this time before a......

Art On Saturday Afternoon The Queue Stretched Down The Steps

of the Tate, along the Embankment and round into Bulinga Street—a sight I never thought to see. Thus has the legend- grown. The man's life has been publicised, dramatised,......