23 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE "King's Rhapsody." By Ivor Novello. (Palace.) Tile vast auditorium of the Palace Theatre has an audience and an atmosphere all its own. The average age is higher (I......

"treasure Hunt." By M. J. Farrell And John Perry. (apollo.)

BANG in the middle of the drawing-room of Anglo-Irish Ballyroden is Aunt Anna Rose's sedan chair, and there, at its window, is Aunt Anna Rose herself, now imagining that she has......

The Cinema "the Secret Garden." (empire.)—" Diamond...

So Dear to My Heart." (New Gallery.) The Secret Garden, adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, cleverly escapes from sentimentality into convincing en- chantment. In......

Music Now That The Season Of Promenade Concerts Is Over

it is time to face the fact that in their present form these concerts are a complete anachronism. Neither the orchestras nor the conductors concerned are to blame. It is simply......