19 AUGUST 1955, page 19

Realism And Abstraction—ii

I SUGGESTED in the first of these two articles that the word realism is now being so recklessly applied to such an inconsistent medley of works that it has become meaningless......

Contemporary Arts

THE newish television parlour game, Who Said That?, is less a game of skill than an excuse for chatter. No one seems really worried by the quotations or where they come from;......

Cinema

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT. (Warner.) — FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) IF only there existed some irresistible force which could discipline Orson Welles's genius he would......