Contemporary Arts

ART Ginner. (Tate Gallery.) THE history of English painting is a sort of switchback, with headlong swoops into troughs of what Professor Waterhouse has called 'inspissated......

Music The Italian String Quartet Played A Rather...

at the Festival Hall on Tuesday. London has been greatly impressed recently by Boccherini's quintets, played by another excellent Italian ensemble; but the quartet with which......

Cinema I Have Not Read Joan Henry's Book On Life

in a women's prison, but I am told it is excellent, and 1 cannot help feeling that although Miss Henry has collaborated in its translation from paper to screen she must be......

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Con- Cert At The...

on January 27th was conducted by Richard Arnell, two of whose works were in the programme. One of these, the ballet suite Punch and the Child, has already been recorded ; but......

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