19 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 11

Art ,

THERE was a time when a mere whiff of alien eminence was enough to give the English cognoscenti the vapours. The history of painting in this country is studded with the names of......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) Tins production, like almost everything Hugh Hunt does, is well considered and solidly built, and it has in Clare......

Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. (mermaid.) Tins Macbeth...

The stage is Elizabethan ; the accents and acting style are meant to be. There is here much for Shakespearian students to discuss. To the ordinary playgoer the accents, seeming......

Quadrille. By Noel Coward. (phoenix.) The Play's The...

not when the Lunts are on the stage. It is then no more than an excuse, a scaffolding to be shoved up and covered with brocade, any old floorboarding under the rich carpet. The......