2 OCTOBER 1953, page 12

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......

Cinema

Are We All Murderers? (Curzon.)—Back- ground. (Leicester Square.) Ride, Vaquero. (Empire.) CAPITAL punishment is much in our minds today, and Andre Cayatte's powerful film Are......

Observers

Grown granite-hard they stand in spite of buffets And eyes once mild have chilled to bleak precision, Broken and bruised their power of transmut- ing Bodies or bricks to glory......

Ballet

IN a programme which began unpromisingly with Street Games—charmingly devised but too trivial to be worthy of its choreographer —and Tancredi and Clorinda, which loses some of......