2 JUNE 1950, page 13

Music

MASSENET'S Manon, which has just been revived at Covent Garden, is one of the small band of work-:Carmen is another—which seem to please the public and the pundits, though......

A Curiosity Appended To The Small Milhaud Festival Which The

B.B.C. has given during the last week was a performance at the R.C.M. of the composer's fourteenth and fifteenth string quartets by the Aleph and Martin String Quartets, who......

Mr. Alfred Hitchcock Has Ever Had A Flair For Combining

suspense with comedy, and if, in Stage Fright, the suspense is barely notice- able and its suspenders unconvincing, the comedy has no defects whatever. Mr. Alistair Sim......

Art

AMONG the works by Degas on view at the Lerevre Gallery (at its new address in Bruton Street) are several unfamiliar masterpieces of the first importance. An upright race-course......

Far Removed From The Uncanny Depths Of Orpheus Is A

new Italian film, In the Name of the Law, which concerns the efforts of a newly-appointed magistrate to' replace the rough justice of the Mafia in Sicily with the laws of the......

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