16 JANUARY 1953, page 10

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE The Merchant of Venice. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) THERE can be something for everybody, even reviewers, in the lucky dip of the Merchant, and Hugh Hunt sees to......

Music

The Rake's Progress. THE Third Programme is to be congratulated on its presentation- of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. The singers were excellent. Alexander Young in the......

Cinema

Decameron Nights. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—Women of Twilight. (Plaza.) EVERY time I see that one of .the classics has been filmed I confess to a certain sadness, for, owing to a......