25 JUNE 1948, page 13

Music

" I uniqx that Liszt is most appreciated as a composer by those who have lived abroad a lot." It was in this deceptively modest aphorism that an eminent representative of the......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE Cage Me a Peacock." By Noel Langley. (Strand.) WHEN I see the words " A New Musical " a faint pedantic frisson of disapproval gives way almost immediately to a......

The Cinema

" Oliver Twist." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—" Gentleman's Agree- ment" (Leicester Square.)—" Sitting Pretty." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) MESSRS. David Lean and Ronald Neame,......

" A La Carte." Book And Lyrics By Alan Melville.

Music by Charles Zwan. (Savoy.) A La Carte (which to judge from certain discrepancies in the Programme has been overhauled and strengthened since the first night) is really......