2 NOVEMBER 1956, page 19

Revival

HARVEST. (Academy.)---HousE OF SECRETS. (Gaumont.)---NIGHTFALL. (Astoria.) MARCEL PAGNOL'S nineteen-year-old Harvest, censored off our screens when it first appeared and now......

Sir,—in 'city And Suburban' On October 5 Mr. Betjeman...

W. H. Smith 0" preserving period shop-fronts. I am glad theY have turned over a new leaf, as one of the most charming Regency buildings in the West Country, the Royal Library at......

Interminable

SIR,—Mr. John Amis in his review of Lennox Berkeley's recent opera Ruth speaks of 'those interminable four-bar phrases that modulate in bar three only to creep back to the......

The Free-stander Sta.—in The Spectator Some Time Ago John...

comments on the housing scheme for the Corporation of London in Golden Lane and directs the full weight of his personal dis- Pleasure on a feature topping the highest block. As......

Contemporary Arts

Mother Tongue ONE of the unspoken aspirations of ITV seems to be to get away from the standard English developed and defended by the BBC since its foundation..I am sure ITV is......