10 JULY 1947, page 13

Music

I CANNOT understand why Berlioz's Les Troyens has never made itself a place in the operatic repertory. Early in June Sir Thomas Beecham did the first part, La Prise de Tr"ie,......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE " Boys in Brown." By Reginald Beckwith. (Duchess.)---“I Said to Myself." By Florida Scott-Maxwell. (Mercury.) Boys in Brown is a serious play with a social purpose.......

The Cinema

" The Egg and I." (New Gallery.)—" The Romance of Rosy Ridge." (Empire.) The Egg and I has been taken from a novel by Betty Macdonald, a novel so convulsively funny to its......