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The Cinema

"The Hasty Heart." (Warner.)- 4, Dear Mr. Prohack." (New Gallery and Tivoli.)—" You Can't Sleep Here." (Odeon.)— " Le Secret de Mayerling." (Polytechnic.) THE talking film, we......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE. " Midsummer Day's Dream." By J. B. Priestley. (St. Martin's.) WHAT can best be described as a sturdy defeatism permeates Mr. Priestley's vision of England in 1975.......

Music

IT has been a week of anniversary celebrations. The tercentenary of John Blow's birth was fittingly commemorated by the London Opera Club at Hampton Court with a performance of......