21 MARCH 1952, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE THERE are not many who share Dr. Johnson's opinion that this play is " one of the most amusing of our author's performances." Even when it is produced as forcefully and......

The Constant Couple. By George Farquhar. (winter Garden.)...

farce, which Mr. Alec Chines and the Arts Theatre have chosen to succeed Mr. Fry's The Firstborn in their season at the Winter Garden, turns out to be an elaborate setting,......

Cinema

Angels One Five. (Empire.) Saturday Island. (Odeon.)-- Boots Malone. (Tivoli.) IT has taken a long time for the Battle of Britain to be commemorated in film-form. Angels One......

Call Me Madam. By Howard Lindsay And Russel Crouse. Music

by Irving Berlin. (Coliseum.) I TAKE this piece for a sort of reprisal. For several decades American audiences have manfully schooled themselves to enjoy, and here and there......