24 DECEMBER 1965, page 18

Cinema

Bloody Epics The Epic That Never Was. (National Film Theatre, January 14 and 15; BBC-1, Decem- ber 24.)—The War Lord. (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'A' certitcate.) F ICTION can't......

Architecture

Ability Paxton J OSEPH PAXTON, the designer of the Crystal Palace, is one of those electric early-Victorian figures who spring to life at the slightest provo- cation. There he......

Art

Tudor Top Drawer T HERE'S a stretch of Tudorbethan portraiture between Holbein and the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver which is usually regarded as one of the......