2 OCTOBER 1953, page 11

Opera

A SURPRISING number of themes have been considered suitable for operatic treatment, from agrarian collectivisation to women's rights and birth control ; but none, on the face of......

Art

THERE has been a good deal of talk recently about realism—socialist, socialite and other- wise. Josef Herman's new exhibition at Roland, Browse and Delbanco's prOvides an......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE The Devil's General. By Carl Zuckmayer, adapted by Robert Gore Browne and Christopher Hassall. (Savoy.)—Spring Song. By Bella and Samuel Spewack. (Erhbassy.) IT is......