27 JULY 1951, page 13

Robert Joseph Flaherty

Boa FLAHERTY, who has died at home in Vermont at the age of 67, has been called the "father of documentary." In a sense he was, but " documentary " is much too pale and prim a......

Cinema

Alice in Wonderland." (Odeon.)—" Worm's Eye View." (Rialto.) — " We Want a Child." (Berkeley.) MANY honest British faces will Se purple with indignation when they see the result......

Recent Records

ORCHESTRAL: H.M.V. issues Berlioz's King Lear overture played with maximum persuasiveness and sympathy by the Royal Phil- harmonic Orchestra under Beecham. In Sibelius's first......

Music

AFTER the operatic season proper has come to an end, first at Covent Garden and now at Glyndebourne, a little or " silly " season seems to exist, so that with a little judicious......