5 MAY 1950, page 13

Cinema

44 Cheaper by the Dozen." (Odeon.j..-■---" Champagne for Caesar." (London Pavilion..)--" Prelude to Fame." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) Miss MYRNA LOY is renowned for her......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE , 4 Sauce Piquante." (Cambridge.) ALTHOUGH I cannot claim to have made a study of these entertain- ments, I have the impression that the British are—or perhaps it would......

It Would Be Kinder Of Films If They Were Either

wholly bad or wholly good. It is difficult to recommend Prelude to Fame because so much of this story of a selfish and ambitious Englishwoman's desire to be recognised through......

Music Music Is Of All The Arts The Most Apt

to express violence, since it moves in time and is susceptible of virtually infinite dynamical variations. The range of these variations has been hugely extended in the last......

Champagne For Caesar Is Amusing, And _brings Mr. Ronald...

back to the screen looking as attractively middle-aged as ever. He takes the part of a highly educated man who regards the normal television quiz as the forerunner of......