20 JANUARY 1950, page 13

Alexandra Palace

For the most part, plays televised from theatres are an abomina- tion ; they are neither theatre nor television. But I confess to a sneaking pleasure I took in Mr. Tod......

Copeau

For the talk of the last few days I should select (though I recognise that the choice is arbitrary) M. Michel St. Denis's contribution to the Contemporary Theatre series on the......

Music

PROBABLY not very much of the music written in the 1920s will interest our grandchildren, once its period flavour has been tried and enjoyed a mild vogue. A great deal of it......

Art

THEODORE GARMAN makes his debut at the Redfern Gallery under the auspices of Messrs. Epstein and Matthew Smith. From these distinguished names, and from the information that one......

Nursery Research

For other childish affairs, there is the new, and perhaps sadly- named, Listen With Mother. This programme is designed for the very young, up to the age of five; although I......

Thought In A Tank This He Did. Or, At Any

rate, Mrs. Piddington (who seemed singularly self-controlled throughout our enjoyable tour of the environs of S.W.1) pressed into my hand before journey's end a slip of paper on......

Radio

THE return of The Piddingtons means the return, I suppose, of controversy. I decline to dismiss the subject as flogging a dead horse: for this horse is so uncommonly lively.......