17 JULY 1953, page 14

Cinema

Salome. (Odeon, Leicester Square.)--Sangaree. (Plaza.) AFTER Delilah and Bathsheba, Salome. But as devised for Rita Hayworth, this is a Salome whitewashed out of all......

Spectator Competition No. 176 Report By Guy Kendall ' The

task of judging this competition has been rendered difficult by the fact that although many of the entries were up to a good level there were no quite outstanding contributions.......

Spectator Competition No. 179 Set By Horace Wyndham...

bygone best-sellers have often wondered what their authors would have thought of these books if they, instead of the professional critics, had been allowed to review them.......

Ballet The Festival Ballet. (festival Hall.)—paul Draper....

just an admirer and not an ardent devotee of the book, it does not bother me at all that Michael Charnley, in his new ballet Alice in Wonderland, has taken liberties with......