Second Best Bed. By N. Richard Nash. (arts.)
IN this perfectly harmless and quite tasteless bit of twaddle Master Will Shakespeare is exhibited in Stratford during a jaunt down from London. He is, it seems, in search of......
The Impostor. (academy.)
The extraordinary Rashomon was an exception among Japanese films, as it would have been anywhere. A more conventional—and on its home ground more popular—production, The......
Gramophone Records
H.M.V., Vol. II. Early Mediaeval iVjusic up to 1300. Vol. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, c.1300-1540. THESE two volumes, containing twenty-two "78" discs, are the first......
Theatre
Over the Moon. Lyrics and music by Vivian Ellis and others. (Piccadilly.) NOTHING bovine about this 'twentieth-century Boadicea who carves her way through acres of......
Music
THERE is probably no more unfortunate figure in our musical life than Alan Bush. As a composer he is an outstanding talent even in a generation that includes Walton, Rubbra,......
Happy As A King. By Austin Melford And Fred Emney.
Music and lyrics by Ross Parker. (Princes.) AMERICAN musical comedies are better than British ones and have been for several decades : nobody questions that. The argument starts......
Cinema
• Young Bess. (Empire.)—Stalag 17. (Carlton.) Young Bess is being shown on a screen of such vast proportions that it takes a full ten minutes before one can find one's way about......