26 DECEMBER 1952, page 12

Cinema

Marching Along. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—Botany Bay. (Plaza.) THIS is the week when good film-critics make a succinct r6sumo of the year's films, commenting on influences and......

Twentieth Century Carol

As I was walking in a wood On Christmas Eve, I heard a heart begin to grieve, "0 the holly and the ivy and the running deer Bring Christmas near. "But fear and war have changed......

Music

FEW concerts given by the Royal Philharmonic Society can have had a stranger programme than that of December 17th. Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the Royal Philharmonic......

Ballet

THE new production of Swan Lake at Covent Garden is most exciting. This four-act ballet has now been lengthened, enlarged and re-dressed, and it is greatly to the credit of all......