24 AUGUST 1951, page 11

" Right . Side Up." By C. E. Webber. (arts.) .

THIS new comedy is a protest in the form .of a parable. Mr. Webber imagines a whimsical, tree-dwelling boy-saint who falls among spivs and is threatened by them. From sleeping......

Cinema

"People Will Talk." (Odeon.) a Tale of Siberia." (Berkeley.) WRITTEN and directed by Mr. Joseph Mankiewicz, whose All About Eve brought us to such close grips with the eternal......

Contemporary Arts Theatre

"The Biggest Thief in Town." By Dalton Trumbo. (Duchess.) LI% Mr. George Shiels's The Passing Day, The Biggest Thief in Town is a long joke about avarice,- hinging on the death......

Music It Was Presumably The Imp Of The Perverse—not A

fairy forgotten at Sir Thomas Beecham's christening-party—who prompted his revival of Balfe's Bohemian Girl at Covent Garden. Balfe's connection with the Great Exhibition of......