17 APRIL 1947, page 13

Music

IT has not been an exciting week musically, and what had promised to be the big event was something of a disappointment to me. Before returning to Italy—though only for a time,......

The Cinema

AFTER all the Jezebel-painted, glossily suggestive musicals, after all the smug sadc slap-me-down thrillers, after all the chintzy, patronising small-town Hardy annuals—what a......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE "Call Home The Heart." By Clemence Dane. (St. James's). THIS is a play of some distinction. In the late summer of 1945 Lydia awaits, in her parents' country house,......