3 JANUARY 1947, page 16

The Cinema

The New Year DURING 1946 both the United States and the Soviet Union dropped well behind in the production of first-class films, and the field is now led by France 'and Britain,......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE "Antony and Cleopatra." By William Shakespeare. (Piccadilly) IT is impossible not to admire (among many other things) the objectivity with which Shakespeare presents......

Music

MUSICAL taste varies in each person, I suppose, with a whole eries of unpredictable and virtually unknowable factors ; temperament or "complexion," state of health, mental......