31 AUGUST 1956, page 18

Awful Child

'TM BAD SEED. (Warner.) As a novel and play The Bad Seed was first- class melodrama, no more probable, no less worthy than The Castle of Otranto or Witness for the Prosecution.......

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March Mg Song

Sonar: weeks ago I asked a Member of the BBC's drama department, who was -complain- ing about the chronic shortage of plays suitable for television, whether they had considered......

London Ballet

THE two ballet companies now on view in London reveal many intriguing things to the observer who is not committed to a belief that dancers of only one nation can perform ballet......