16 SEPTEMBER 1960, page 20

Ballet

Inhuman Comedy By CLIVE BARNES THERE can be very few people alive today who have seen Leonide Mas- sine's new full-length ballet La Commedia Umana twice. I have. It is based on......

Television

Putting Up a Black By PETER FORSTER Character-drawing was vivid but far from starry-eyed. No suggestion of Sammy as the under-privileged man crucified by economics: the plain......

Cinema

To Catch a Thief By ISABEL QUIGLY Pickpocket. (Paris - Pull- man.) — Anna of Brooklyn and All the Young Men. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) THE cinema, that un- blinking eye, can be a......