28 AUGUST 1953, page 13

Ballet

Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit. (Stoll.) ROLAND PETIT seems more and more to be inclining towards musical comedy dancing, for of the three new works presented at his premiere......

Theatre

MR. RODNEY ACKLAND'S adaptation of Hugh Walpole's novel must always have seemed a rather protracted and fidgety melodrama (1 seem to be alone among professional playgoers in not......

Music

LARRY ADLER is our contemporary Paganini, a thaumaturgic per- former and one who has revealed new potentialities in an instrument with a history, certainly, but with no......

Cinema

Melba. (Odeon.)—La Belle Image. (Berkeley.) FROM her first appearance in Brussels to the last of her many farewell concerts, name Nellie Melba was an unqualified success, so......