30 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 13

Art

James Pryde Memorial Exhibition. (Tate Gallery.) PRYDE exhibited little in his lifetime, and this comprehensive collec- tion arranged by the Arts Council gives the first......

Euripides And Shaw

With Medea in Professor Gilbert Murray's translation there is no innovation ; and it was World Theatre's business only to tread firmly and gracefully on a well-beaten path. The......

Music

SADLER'S WELLS opened their autumn season with a performance of Simone Boccanegra on Monday and a ballet programme which included the new Sea Change on Tuesday. The casting of......

A Word For Parents

Dick Barton returns this week—lean, bronzed and tremendously muscular (I make no doubt) after his summer vacation. I expect the usual wails from educationists. They forget the......

Radio

IT was gallant of Mr. Patric Dickinson and the Third Programme to tackle the Pseudolus of Plautus. It would be idle of me to pretend that, in a survey of the comic theatre down......