15 APRIL 1955, page 19

Music

IF Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony fails to make such an impact in this country as in Prague and America (where it has recently received the New York Music Critics' Circle award......

Contemporary Arts

THE most interesting new film of this week can be found only at Cambridge; the censor's ban, reinforced by the decision of the LCC, has kept, and will keep, it out of London. It......

Television And Radio

THE foundation of the BBC's considerable reputation as • a public service has been its capacity to rise to the great occasion. How many tawdry television programmes were for-......

Theatre

UNCERTAIN JOY, By Charlotte Hastings. (Royal Court.)—IT's DIFFERENT FOR MEN. By Michael Pertwee. (Duchess.) I DID not see Charlotte Hastings's first play, Bonaventure, but 1 am......

Avettator

APRIL 17, 1830 THE stupid old twaddler Colman has, accord- ing to the daily papers, given a new specimen ' of the manner in which he exercises the func- tions of Dramatic......