27 MARCH 1953, page 16

Raoul Dufy

So Dufy, who was among the first six or eight of that great and long-lived generation of Parisians, has gone—a few short months after receiving the grand painting prize at......

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......

Music

Boccherini SUPERLATIVE quality is, by definition, rare, and it is only when we meet it—in a person, a horse, a steak, or a work of art—that there is borne in upon the mind with......

Art

The Human Head As though to compensate for a deficiency of humanism in its inter- national sculpture competition, the Institute of Contemporary Arts' current show at its own......

Ballet

Apparitions. (Covent Garden.) THE welcome given to Margot Fonteyn when she returned to Covent Garden after a six-months illness was one of the most touching ex- pressions of......