Opera
THAT the new Bartered Bride at Covent Garden fell flat on the first night was mainly due to everybody's trying too hard to make a good start (it was Kubelik's first appearance......
Doomed Canals
SIR,—As I read Mr. John Betjeman's obituary list each week I sometimes wonder if the depression he must suffer can only be borne because so many of us share it. In February.......
Sir,—may 1 Congratulate You On The Publica- Tion Of Mr.
Randolph Churchill's articles. It has always seemed to me to be a blot on our public life over the past forty ,years, that one of the easiest ways of gaining) a peerage has been......
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ELECTION SIR,—If, as Henry Fairlic asserts, the General Election campaign is unexciting, may not the primary cause be what Mr. Ormsby Gore calls the 'basic hypocrisy' of much of......
Contemporary Arts
THEATRE 'YES, I suppose we have to bring Shaw into this The comparison is unavoidable, though per- haps Thierry Maulinier's Jeanne devout ses Juges provides a more relevant......
Sir,—many People Must, Like Myself, Have Failed Owing To The
newspaper strike to learn earlier of the shocking threat that now hangs over two of the loveliest valleys of the Lake District. If a halt is not called, overhead elec- tric......
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