26 OCTOBER 1956, page 24

From The Sick-bed

TELEVISION, I find, is not the sick man's friend that radio has always been. Which of us has not spent delicious hours under the blankets drea,ming through 'Housewives' Choice'......

Material And Image

SINCE the nineteenth century the qualities of a painter's materials and his personal manipula- tion of them have been increasingly and more deliberately a part of the image he......

Glamour In Reverse

Bus STOP. (Canton.) 'I WONDER when Marilyn Monroe's cominl on,' whispered my companion, an innocen abroad in the film world who had somehml managed to remain unfamiliar with......

Contemporary Arts

Back to the Dance WITH the addition of the two later ballets (The Fountain of Bakchisarai and Giselle) to its London repertoire, the Bolshoi Ballet pre- sented further......