21 AUGUST 1942, page 11

Music Rubbra's Fourth Symphony The New Symphony By Edmund...

performed at the Albert Hall last week is certainly the most important novelty the present season of Promenade Concerts has produced. Rubbra is a composer who has taken a long......

The Theatre

" Flare Path." At the Apollo Theatre. To go to this play knowing nothing about it is to sit half through the first act not very hopefully expecting, but distinctly wishing that......

Fragment

THE mermaids sang by the shore of the sea In unrewarded chastity, The willows wept a woman's tears, A woman's loneliness was theirs. Here all the beauty of the land Lay waste......

The Cinema

" Twin Beds." At the Odeon. " The Lady is Willing." At the Regal.—" Salute John Citizen." At the Carlton.—The Newsreels. THE absurdities of the screen farce are easy to initiate......