... London-born Antony Tudor, artistic administrator of the Bal let Theatre of New York, now dancing at Covent Garden, spoke from the stage of the Scala on Sunday evening to an audience who had gathered to see a pro gramme of ballet films, presented by the London Archives of the Dance. Mr. Tudor suggested that all ballets should be filmed at the time of their creation, thereby establishing a ...

... PAGEANTRY AT OLYMPIA On December 17 the twenty-second season of Bertram Mills's Circus opened at Olympia. From the grand opening parade to the finale there is presented a spectacular variety of animal, aerial, tumbling, and clowning acts with such speed that the three hours are never allowed to drag. Before and after the shows, and during the interval, there is a fun-fair adjoining the ...

... Chicken Every Sunday (Savoy) IT is a sobering reflection for those who make light of national differences that the airiest trifles when put to the test are found to have their roots deep in the soil of a particular country. We all know that while on one side of the English Channel Racine is despised and Shakespeare worshipped, on the other Shake speare is tolerated and Racine adored, but here ...

... RECORD DF THE WEEK THE musical taste of the general public often takes a curious' twist, and those who are sworn anti-jazzites suddenly become conscious that something of this day and age is worth while. In the same way the jazz fiend discovers that the basis of this type of music is often directly traceable to a solid knowledge of the classics. Thus it is interesting to see that Sidney Torch ...

... Elizabeth Bcwen s BROWNS AND CHESTER: A Portrait of a Shop (Lindsay Drummond; 15s.) has an unusual author-- Mass-Observation. Up to now, this form of research has been applied to contemporary affairs; and enlighten ing, if sometimes startling, have its results been --we have been documented, if one may so put it, up to the hilt. We may still be ignorant as to our neighbours' ways of life if ...

... THERE are two recent recordings of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and though it may seem too much to suggest that both versions of this major work are heard, no one who really enjoys and appreciates music should miss listening to one or other set of records. Apart from the actual performance of the orchestras concerned, both recordings show how much in advance British recording systems are ...

... The Borgia Testament 14 The Wisdom of Dr. Johnson 44 Portrait of a House 44 Devil's Reckoning: Elizabeth Botven s NIGEL BALCHIN is, as a novelist, admirable-- not least admirable for his way of being for ever upon the move. Reputation came to him early, but he has not been content to take out a patent on, simply, one kind of success: he continues to experiment, to break new ground. He came out ...

... A report of an inquiry organised by Viscount Astor and B. Seebohm Rowntree This report, as it turns out, is an attack on the National Farmers' Union and a number of other very influential bodies, including the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Council of Agriculture. The attack is on the policy, not the honesty, of those who think that the basis of agriculture in this country must ...

... The Book of the Golden Retriever, by W. M. Charlesworth Fletcher and Son, Norwich). No one has had longer experience of the golden retriever than Mrs. Charlesworth, and she has given us an excellent monograph on the breed. It is practical and informa tive throughout, and contains much helpful advice on breeding to type. The chapter on kennels and house training is very useful, as is that on ...

... Part-Time Farmer, by C. N. j Barclay (Sijton Praed, Ltd. 15s.). I This little book will encourage a I lot of people to try to make their I country dreams a reality, for the I author is far too optimistic. He I deals only with smallholdings, not I farms, and though there is much of ,il good sense we doubt if a large jj garden and an acre of orchard will make a net profit of £200 a year, even ...

... Whitehall 1212, by Richard I Harrison (Jarrolds 15 s.). Crime I from a different angle. Here is a j history of London's police force I and an account of the work which falls to the City Police, Port of I London Authority, Railway, :fl B.O.A.C. police, including a vivid I description of the Yard as nerve- I centre for detection of crime. From B organisation the author turns to I the practical ...

... Pioneers of Fertility, by Grichton Porteous (Fertiliser Journal t-ia., 110, cannon street, 1. on clou, E.C. 4; ios.). Devoting only five or six pages to each man, the author has succeeded in presenting a pic ture of the life-work of twenty-two of the greatest men in agriculture, from Fitzherbert of Norbury, whose Bohe of Husbandry was published in 1523, to Robert H. Elliot, who died in 191 4. ...