28 AUGUST 1953, page 12

Art

Youth and Assurance IT would not be fair to blame the young artist of today for the com- petitive pressure which forces him to seek finality of self - expression at a very early......

Cinema

Melba. (Odeon.)—La Belle Image. (Berkeley.) FROM her first appearance in Brussels to the last of her many farewell concerts, name Nellie Melba was an unqualified success, so......

Contemporary Arts

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL Hamlet. (Assembly Hall, Edinburgh.) FEW people know that under the somewhat complicated financial arrangements of the Arts Council the Old Vic Company may be......