2 JANUARY 1953, page 14

Christmas Magic. (fortune.) The Magic Is Of Illusion And...

both. Murray submerges Mascar in a container of water and locks him in so securely that not even a lad from a training-ship in bell-bottoms could see through it. • But the......

Although An Occasional Ill-conditioned Child Refuses To...

salvation of Tinker Bell, Peter Pan holds its audiences year after year. Why ? That is a question for the child psychologist rather than for the dramatic critic but some day it......

Cinema

Les Aux Interdits. (Academy.)—La Kermesse MI-clique. (Con- tinentale.) Les Jeux Interdits is a brilliant film unerringly directed by M. Rene Clement and acted in a manner past......

Contemporary Arts -

THEATRE TirE unidentical twin moods of an ending and a beginning are mani- fest throughout King Richard II, and in the character of Richard himself they mingle most......