12 OCTOBER 1945, page 11

Gramophone Notes

I GIVE first place this month to the recording by Arthur Rubinstein of Grieg's Pianoforte Concerto in A minor with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by E. Ormandy (H.M.V.......

The Cinema

" The Lost Week-End." At the Plaza. BILLY WILDER is an important director with an almost cynical atti- tude to life. In Double Indemnity he moved his puppets through a sordid......

Art

Ben Nicholson. At the Lefevre Gallery.—A Phase of Contemporary Swedish Art. At the Wildenstein Gallery.—Maeve Gilmore, Constantin Guys and Jean George Simon. At the Redfern......

The Theatre

King Henry IV (Part II). At the New Theatre. MY one serious criticism of Mr. John Burrell's present fine production of King Henry IV at the New Theatre is that he shares the......