27 JULY 1951, page 12

'contemporary Arts

THEATRE 44 Poor Judas." By Enid Bagnold. (Arts.) MISS BAGNOLD'S play, the first of the three to reach the last stage in the Arts Theatre's festival competition, is certainly not......

“my Wife's Lodger." By Dominic Roche. (comedy.) A Week...

this farce opened, another farce had been howled to death in the same theatre by a derisive audience. The players must surely have been twitching before the curtain rose. But......

Cinema

Alice in Wonderland." (Odeon.)—" Worm's Eye View." (Rialto.) — " We Want a Child." (Berkeley.) MANY honest British faces will Se purple with indignation when they see the result......

For Fifteen Years The Hope Has Persisted That The Next

Canterbury festival play may be another Murder in the Cathedral. It never has been ; it never will be—but how depressing for the authors to feel they are beingludged by another......