29 JULY 1949, page 14

No Rhetoric

Mr. John Pudney's script (very well handled by Mr. W. P. Rilla) did somehow communicate its author's intention—to convey a feeling of return to a place once visited in war-time.......

Moral" Dr. Posin Retained Breath Enough To Point His Own

moral, which he did firmly: (a) The effects of an atom bomb on a human being arc frightful; (b) There is no defence against it ; (c) The only protection is "a system of world......

A Chinese Painting

(Late Sung) Clarity ! This bird, this branch of pine, A gull-wing cloud above the cataract : The sure, calm balance of its space and line ; The colour come exact. The heart......

Art

THE annual exhibition of Artists of Fame and of Promise which remains open at the Leicester Galleries until August zoth is an inexacting collection well suited to a hot summer's......

Antics And Atoms

The indubitable oddity of the. week was reserved for television. Dr. Daniel Q. Posin, of U.S.A., gave a talk on the working of the atomic bomb. Seeing that, by way of......

Cockaignually The Fifty-fifth Season Of Promenade...

with Cockaigne and all that. The tumultuous applause that shivered the air is our annual disproof that the English are reserved at their meeting with old friends.......

Radio

IN my last notes I recorded a certain disappointment in a documen- tary feature about Holland, Men Against the Sea ; and on its heels came another documentary, Journey to Malta,......

Romance Versus Realism Of Success Story, Which Last Week...

Miss Gentude Lawrence, I suppose it is fair to say that the title was a warning to expect romance rather than realism. The theatrical excerpts, undoubtedly, will have had great......