23 JULY 1942, page 11

Rawsthorne's Pianoforte Concerto Music The Most...

week's Promenade programmes was a pianoforte concerto by Alan Rawsthorne, which was con- ducted by the composer with Mr. Louis Kentner as pianist. This proved to be not a new......

The Theatre

" The Springtime of Others." By Jean-Jacques Bernard, translated by J. Leslie Frith, at the Arts Theatre Club. THIS play in three acts by one of the best known of French pre-war......

The Cinema

THE week's propaganda ration brings up again the old problem of the relationship between mass-appeal and naiveté. When Soviet film-makers decide to be naive (fortunately it......

Various Exhibitions

ART THE large Matthew Smith show at the Lefevrc Gallery is disappoint- ing. Only a few of the paintings look as good as one feels they all ought to look. The boldness and......