22 JULY 1960, page 20

Cinema

Carrying On By ISABEL QUIGLY The Story of Ruth. (Carl- ton.)—Doctor in Love. (Odeon, Leicester Square.) IT'S hard to see why they go on making mammoth biblicals like The Story......

Opera

Let's Make a Drama By DAVID CAIRNS As an opera, we have hardly begun to take its Measure. How—despite confident assertions that 'in the last resort' Britten has 'somehow' failed......