23 APRIL 1954, page 11

Cinema

The Proud Ones. (Curzon.) — Knock on Wood. (Plaza.)—The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Studio One.) The Proud Ones has been adapted for the screen by Yves Allegret from a novel by......

Country Life

JACKDAWS and starlings may be a nuisance in the chimneys and eaves, but on the grass field the starling takes a large number of insects, just as he helps to rid an infected......

Tree Planting

I have a passion for trees and tree-planting. If I discover some small seedling crowded away in a hedge or wind-exposed on a stretch of moor, I am tempted to uproot it and give......

The Prisoner. By Bridget Boland. (globe.) —the Tempest....

ShakeS 4 peare. (Old Vic.) THE dialectic established between policO interrogator and victim is, it must be admitted, peculiarly a twentieth-centurY phenomenon. Under the......

Flowering Shrubs Flowering Shrubs Should Be Pruned As...

the blossom has fallen. Cut back the branches to within three buds of old wood and generally tidy up the shrub so that new growth and improved blossom will be encouraged for the......