25 AUGUST 1950, page 13

Edinburgh Festival

THEATRE " WHAT," asked an earnest South Briton as we were emerging from the new Bridie, is the message of this play ? " It was odd to hear this critical question from English......

Music

How pleasant if one could have said that the 1950 Edinburgh Festival started off with a bang, but how untrue. All the bangs in the opening concert by the Orchestre National de......

Cinema

MOST of the 200 films from twenty-five countries being shown at the Festival find their drama in fact rather than in fiction, although some have been made in part at least in......