5 MAY 1939, page 17

Art

Academic Painting IT would be true, as usual, to say of this year's exhibition of the Royal Academy that it contains too many pictures, too few of which have any claims to be......

Opera And Ballet

Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells SMETANA'S comic opera, Prodana Nev'esta, alias The Bartered Bride, alias Die Verkaufte Braut, under which title it opened the season at Covent......