29 DECEMBER 1944, page 10

" Love In Idleness." At The Lyric

WHAT a fine comedy this might have been if written by a master such as Oscar Wilde or even at the hands of the author of Blithe Spirit, but Mr. Terence Rattigan has failed to......

The Cinema

Review of the Year T.HE year's films are on the whole more interesting in the trends they reveal than in their intrinsic merit. For example, there can now be little doubt that......

Gramophone Notes I Do Not Know Why Tchaikowsky's Second...

concerto (in G, op. 44) has never achieved the popularity of his first, but here it is, well recorded by Moseiwitsch w:th the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, under George......

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