2 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 15

On The Screen Television, Of Course, Has Sound-radio...

bowled all ends up when it comes to cricket. It really is something to be able to watch great batsmen in close-up in one's drawing-room. The finest television picture of the......

No Successors To Itma I Sincerely Wish That I Could

discern a new Variety programme likely to enliven the evenings now drawing in. I have been listening expectantly to Luck's Way, with Miss Ethel Revnell in its series of "......

The Cinema

"The Fountainhead." (Warner.)—" The Blum Affidr." (Academy.) —" The Barkleys of Broadway." (Empire.) The. Fountainhead is a pretentious film with characters who speak in riddles......

1749-1949 By Way Of Ballast, There Hat Been Plenty Of

Goethe, in honour of the bi-centenary . This series of Goethe programmes during the year would, as they say, fill a book, and indeed has done so. The B.B.C. are now publishing......

Music

THE Glyndebourne Opera's performance of Cosi fan Tuue at Edin- burgh was a triumphant success. It is difficult to compare it mentally with last year's, but I had the impression......

Once Those Football Results Start To Pester The Evening Air,

we know that summer is fully on the wane. How unhappily, therefore, I greet their reappearance! Yet there are millions who listen to them raptly, whereas for me they carry no......