7 JANUARY 1955, page 30

Cinema

Carmen Jones. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) TAMPERING with the classics, particularly the hackneyed ones, is a business as dan g erous as it is tempting, and Oscar Hammerstein II, by......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE `BETWEEN the actin g of a dreadful thing and the first motion' time is all too short on the London sta g e. To look back over the pro- ductions of 1954 is to be appalled......

Television And Radio

IF the authorities at Lime Grove s have made any New Year resolutions, I hope that one of them is that in 1955 more time will be g iven to those pro g rammes for which TV is the......