7 MAY 1948, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE Ir was perhaps no accident that Ruritania was invented by an Englishman. Earlier writers than Anthony Hope had imagined fabulous kingdoms and chimerical republics.......

Art

ANYONE capable of the rapid readjustment of his sensibilities which is demanded, and blessed with sufficient stamina to stay the course, may find at Burlington House, as ever, a......

The Cinema

"Hamlet." (Odeon.)—" Good Time Girl." (Leicester S q uare.) SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER'S presentation of HaMlet proves once again that it is possible to translate Shakespeare into......