30 DECEMBER 1949, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE Plays for the Holidays " TELL me," people are always demanding, " a good play to go to." I find this injunction extraordinarily difficult to obey. For one thing, it......

Cinema

"Bicycle Thieves." (Curzon.)-- "The Doctor and The Girl." (London Pavilion.)--“Dear Wife." (Carlton.) Bicycle Thieves has every conceivable virtue save one, and that, I think,......

Music

SADLER'S WELLS has added a new fairy-story ballet, as well as Hansel and Gretel. to its Christmas repertory. Beauty and the Beast is a pas de deux danced to Ravel's Mother Goose......