1 NOVEMBER 1940, page 12

The Arts By Daylight

THE siege of London has been waged now for nearly two months. Theatres and cinemas in the West End have been destroyed by bombs, publishing houses have lost their stocks of......

Music

THE musician has this advantage over the actor, that he is not so dependent upon time and place. The drama must have its theatre and its two or three-hour span. Music may be......

The Theatre

You would hardly know there was a war on if it were not for the occasional announcements of air-raids from the stage, and a great deal of Mr. Farjeon's Diversion, at Wyndham's......

Art

FIFTY-FIVE years ago the New English was born, in time for Alma Tadema to be pained by it, for William Morris to frown on it and for Aubrey Beardsley to become a bright young......