3 OCTOBER 1947, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THE CINEMA " Sortileges." (Curzon)—" Ivy." (Odeon, Leicester Square.) Sortileges takes a lot of getting into. Witchcraft practised in a log cabin by two crazy men wearing huge......

Music

Fidelio was one of the best of the Vienna State Opera's Covent Garden performances. It is of great importance that the singers in Fidelio should also be able to act, or the......

Art

NADIA BENOIS, to be known perhaps to art historians of the future as the " Mistress of the Olive Trees," is showing some recent paint- ings at Messrs. Tooth's. They are as......