1 FEBRUARY 1957, page 18

Two-part Invention

No Laughing Matter. By Armand Salacrou. (Arts.) —The Two Gentlemen of Verona. By William Shake- speare. (Old Vic.) ANYONE going to the Arts in the expectation of wallowing in......

Wagner In English

AFTER Covent Garden's last disastrous Wagnerian venture in Tannhauser, the new pro- duction of The Mastersingers is a comparative success. One of its virtues is that in accord-......

Earth-bound

Two British films raise the question of nationality this week, one being a genuine, the other a spurious, local product. Anyone who wants to see the English- ness (not the......