4 SEPTEMBER 1953, page 13

Cinema

The Sword and the Rose. (Gaumont.)—Shane. (Plaza.)—La Minute de Write. (Academy.) Wax so many history books on the market it is strange that no film company has been able to......

Renoir Exhibition. (royal Scottish Academy.) Although The...

officially one of music and drama, each year of its existence has seen spirited attempts to match the splendours of these arts with something worthy in painting. A phenomenal......

It Is A Remarkable Testimony To The Impact Of The

music of The Rake's Progress that even at its first appearance on the stage in this country, criticism has already taken the libretto for granted and concentrated on......

Festival Fringe The Main Ploy Of The Amateur Critics And

wiseacres at the Edinburgh International Festival in each successive year is to visit the fringe shows and tell us which of the stones that the builder rejected should have been......

The Spectator Thin Paper Edition Can Be Forwarded By Air

to any address in the world. SUBSCRIPTION RATES :— U.S.A. and Canada (Air Mail) £4 15s. Od. per annum. S. Africa (Air Express) £4 Os. Od. per annum. Rates to other parts of the......