6 JUNE 1952, page 11

The Sweet Bird's Throat Itself (not To Mention The Harsher

homing note of an occasional aeroplane) was something of a distraction in the early part. Did the sweet artifice of the comedy seem a little shaky in the plain light of London ?......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE Timon of Athens. By William Shakespeare. (The Old Vic.) WATCHING Timon was, I found, rather like going to some scandalously sophisticated party at which, halfway......

Meet Mr. Callaghan. (garrick.)

THE curtain was raised, as far as I was concerned, to denote little more than the passage of two-and-a-quarter hours. This adaptation of one of Mr. Peter Cheyney's crime-stories......

Cinema

So Bright the Flame. (Empire.)—The Quiet Man. (Plaza.)— Just Across the Street. (Leicester Square.) DR. EMILY DUNNING was one of the Florence Nightingales of America at the turn......