28 SEPTEMBER 1951, page 12

,, Cinema -

"The Lady With a Lamp." (Warner.) — " Cyrano de Bergerac." (Carlton.) THE old argument about whether historical films (or historical plays and historical novels for that matter)......

" Les Fausses Confidences." By Marivatnc.- 44 Baptiste."...

of course. Unused to it, how can we pass judge- ment on it ? Thus the general reaction, accompanied by wonder and an amazed shaking of heads. But it is a false respect ; the......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE " Tamburlaine the Great." By Christopher Marlowe. (Old Vic.). WHEN one used to read this play the words were everything ; there was nothing else ; and the words, though......