7 JANUARY 1955, page 32

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......

Art

The Mystic and the Myth DAVID JONES'S hooks are complex word- patterns, shot through with more or less esoteric allusions to Celtic myth and medimval legend, the teachings of......

Mid-winter And The Yachtsmen

IN the year 1954 more passengers crossed the oceans by air than by sea. This landmark in the history of travel has chanced to coincide with the opening of the first National......

Times, Places, Loved Ones

No, I have never found The place where I could say This is my proper ground, Here I shall stay; Nor met that special one Who has an instant claim On everything I own Down to my......