7 DECEMBER 1956, page 18

Claustrophobia

The Diary of Anne Frank. (Phenix.) ADAPTATIONS are in general ne'er-do-wells. They are apt to lounge about keeping just abreast of the plot, reducing characters who in the......

A Tale Of Four Operas

THE winning entries in the 1951 Festival of Britain opera competition were Arthu r Benjamin's A Tale of Two Cities, Alan Bush's Wat Tyler, Berthold Goldschmidt's Beatrice Cenci......

The Stem Of Telly

How damnable it must be for the television bosses that imitations don't work. In the world in which Formula is King we're seeing,a spate of imitative gcneration the like of......

Face Painting

IN the first room of the Royal Academy's huge exhibition of British portraits is Hol- bein's portrait of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, from the Royal collection, and I would......