30 JULY 1948, page 14

Contemporary Arts

THE CINEMA " The World and His Wife." (Empire.) - " Daisy Kenyon." (Leicester Square.) " The Horn Blows at Midnight." (Warner.) The World and His Wife is concerned with American......

Epitaph

FROM end to end of the bright, airy ward, From end to end of each delirious day, The wireless whined or hammered, nagged or roared ; That was the pain no drugs could put away. I......

The Spectator

Atli EDITION Here this morning—in North America this afternoon. BY AIR : 52 weeks $14.00—D 10s. Od. 26 weeks $7.00—£1 15s. Od. Subscriptions for U.S.A.. and Canada may be sent......

Music

THE Proms. are with us again, familiar and friendly, orchestral music in its most typically English setting. For six weeks the music is the thing, and the brilliance of Signor X......