27 MARCH 1953, page 15

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE THE stage, when the curtain rises, is seen to be dominated by an enormous gilt pergola : the sort of thing that, if you were a wealthy eccentric and had plenty of wire......

Cinema

The Cruel Sea. (Leicester Square.)—The Medium. (Academy.) —Bwana Devil. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) The Cruel Sea, adapted by Mr. Eric Ambler from Mr. Nicholas Monsarrat's popular......

The House Where I Was Born

An elegant, shabby, whitewashed house With a slate roof. Two rows Of tall sash-windows. Below the porch, at the foot of The steps, my father, posed In his pony trap and round......