7 OCTOBER 1955, page 22

Cinema

THE KING'S THIEF. (Ritz.) -THE VIRGIN 'QUEEN. (Carlton.) --THE TROUBLE SHOOTER. (Odeon.) IT is curious that with such vast resources at its command the cinema industry is rarely......

Painting

GAUGUIN MANY of the Gauguins at the Tate, particu- larly it seems those painted in Tahiti and the Marquesas, have been set by their owners in wide, elaborately carved frames......

Television

THE excitement of the first. CTV week died rather fast in the second, when what lOoked likely from the beginning—the fact that we need expect no enormous innovation—became......

The Spectator

OCTOBER 9,1830 THE fate of Belgium is decided, as far as the opinions and resolutions of the people of Bel- gium, signified through the Provisional Gov- ernment at Brussels, can......