19 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 12

Music

THE Three Choirs Festival at Hereford last week followed its ritual pattern. The statutory St. Matthew Passion, Messiah and Gerontius were supported by The Creation, Hymnus......

Cinema

The Planter's Wife. (Leicester Square Theatre.) QLTITE the most exciting passage in this Far-Eastern Western of the war in Malaya is a fight to the death between a mongoose and......

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......

Ballet

Ballets Negres. (Twentieth Century Theatre.) AT the Twentieth Century Theatre in Westbourne Grove, the Ballets Negres, under the directorship of Berto Pasuka, are holding a......