Second Best Bed. By N. Richard Nash. (arts.)

IN this perfectly harmless and quite tasteless bit of twaddle Master Will Shakespeare is exhibited in Stratford during a jaunt down from London. He is, it seems, in search of......

The Impostor. (academy.)

The extraordinary Rashomon was an exception among Japanese films, as it would have been anywhere. A more conventional—and on its home ground more popular—production, The......

Gramophone Records

H.M.V., Vol. II. Early Mediaeval iVjusic up to 1300. Vol. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, c.1300-1540. THESE two volumes, containing twenty-two "78" discs, are the first......

Theatre

Over the Moon. Lyrics and music by Vivian Ellis and others. (Piccadilly.) NOTHING bovine about this 'twentieth-century Boadicea who carves her way through acres of......

Music

THERE is probably no more unfortunate figure in our musical life than Alan Bush. As a composer he is an outstanding talent even in a generation that includes Walton, Rubbra,......

Happy As A King. By Austin Melford And Fred Emney.

Music and lyrics by Ross Parker. (Princes.) AMERICAN musical comedies are better than British ones and have been for several decades : nobody questions that. The argument starts......

Cinema

• Young Bess. (Empire.)—Stalag 17. (Carlton.) Young Bess is being shown on a screen of such vast proportions that it takes a full ten minutes before one can find one's way about......