23 JULY 1954, page 13

Cinema Dial M For Murder. (warner.)—rendez- Vous De...

SUCCESSFUL on television and on the stage, and now presented as a film, Frederick Knott's Dial M for Murder appears one of those handy subjects adaptable to almost any medium......

Ballet The Festival Ballet. (royal Festival Hall.)

EVER since the premiere of La 'Esmeralda a week ago, I have been wondering what prompted Anton Dolin to make this particular choice. Was his reason the only legitimate one for a......

Television And Radio

MR. IAIN MACCORMICK'S television play The Small Victory, about a Catholic mission and a small group of variegated Western refugees in the hands of Chinese Communists, was not a......

Music

CHELTENHAM'S programmes during the last few years have slipped into a rut. Although this is largely the fault of the basic formula for the festival as a whole, which for......