21 DECEMBER 1956, page 15

Stravinsky In London

AT both the recent Stravinsky concerts in Loa: don the audience was denied the pleasure applauding the composer personally. Althoug h unofficially present in the Festival Hall......

The Year's Films

MEMORY—my memory at least, again— being a sieve-like affair, through which the disagreeable tends to vanish, retrospection is a pleasant task. The fine or amusing or touch- ing......

A La Mode

The Country Wife. By William Wycherley. (Royal Court.)—The Merchant of Venice. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) Mrs. Gibbon's Boys. By Will Glickman and Joseph Stein.......