1 MAY 1953, page 15

Music

A Tale of Two Cities WHEN is an opera not an opera? When it's broadcast—unless the listening eye can, with the aid of memory and imagination, supply at least a minimum of what......

Art

Le Corbusier at the I.C.A. LE CORBUSIER, it is 'said, regards his painting—which he practises every day between 8.0 a.m. and noon—as the key to all his other work, and it is......

Cinema

Two Pennyworth of Hope. ' (Academy.) SIGNOR RENATO CASTELLANI directed one of the most charming films • ever made, Springtime in Italy, and I went to see his latest production......