3 FEBRUARY 1950, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE FOR all its dreamy elegance, this is a shot-gun wedding. For better or for worse, a poet subdues himself to prose ; for richer or for poorer, the English language takes......

Music

THREE works written within three years of each other have turned my attention back forty years. Mahler's Song of the Earth, written in 1908, was played by the L.P.O. under van......

Cinema

"The Miracle." (Academy.)--" Neptune's Daughter." (Empire.) The Miracle is Signor Roberto Rossellini's forty-minute tribute to Anna Magnani. This magnificent actress plays the......

"a Lady Mislaid." By Kenneth Home. (st. Martin's.) We Know

already that there are two Kenneth Homes, and that he of Sidi Barrani has nothiag to do with the entertainment under review. There may be many more Kenneths of that ilk (note......