14 MAY 1954, page 13

Italian Cinema

"NEO-REALISM is dead!" The glum, bom- bastic cry echoed from Italian critics at the end of De Sica's Miracolo a Milano. Always, in his previous films, hope and humanity had......

Cinema

Go, Man, Go. (London Pavilion.)— Carnival Story. (Leicester Square.)— The Living Desert. (Studio One.) A SERIOUS fault in either the sound-track or the amplifying system at the......

Music

A MARKED feature of musical life in the middle of the twentieth century is the giving of practical expression to the findings of in- satiable scholarship. An apparently n-......