27 APRIL 1956, page 20

Contemporary Arts

Cash and Courage THERE now seems to be a widespread feeling that the financial situation of the arts in Great Britain is past praying for. As inflation deepens and economists......

T. N. P.

THE visit of the Thatre National Populaire to London brings before an English public for the first time a theatre which has become an insti- tution in. Paris and in the French......

1 - R Is At Stratford-atte-bowe, Not Stratford-...

the best-written Elizabethan plays is now on view. Theatre Workshop, whose resources could scarcely be more limited, are to be congratulated—on the choice of play, on a highly......

Realism And Reality

AT the South-East London Art Gallery, wh ere the words 'The Source of Art is in the Life Q.( a People' are written on the floor in parrInen is an exhibition—'Looking Forward'......

It Is Not Entirely Mr. Emlyn Williams's Fault If His

performance as Shylock does not domi- nate our memories of this most agreeable pro- duction, for in Miss Margaret Webster's hands the familiar play provides more counter-......