20 OCTOBER 1950, page 9

Contemporary Arts

CINEMA " A Life of her Own." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)--" Let's Dance." (Carlton.) In A Life of'Her Own Miss Lana Turner is told by Mr. Louis Caihern that she cannot find happiness......

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Music

THE later concerts of the Leeds Festival improved in quality. On October 5th the Halle Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli gave an exceptionally fine performance of Debussy's......

The Taste Of Ozone St. Andrews, Like Cambridge, Or The

Caen now vanished, and the Long Mile at Edinburgh, is an embodiment in masonry of a civilisation whose values are being assailed today from within and without. Reach- ing here......

In My Garden After Violent Wind And Intense Cold In

Scotland, I have got back to an Indian summer (either St. Martin's or St. Luke's ; I am never sure which comes first). I find that my neighbour on the hill-top across the valley......

Country Life

I write this week from St. Andrews, having travelled up through the October weather from the South, leaving the grape-gathering and the warm wet hop-gardens, where much of the......