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Contemporary Arts

Theatre KIM LEAR. By William Shakespeare. (Palace.) I AM pretty traditional about King Lear. That is, I like it performed against scenery vaguely resembling Stonehenge and in......

Paris Festival

A Comm complaint among the cognoscenti of Paris is that there are few truly 'theatrical' dramatic critics in France. Most of us, it appears, have literary rather than theatrical......

Cinema

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH. (Rialto.)—THE LAST COMMAND. (Dominion and New Victoria.) BioLocis - rs aver that every seven years the human body becomes entirely reconstituted. If the......