25 MARCH 1955, page 20

Paul 'hindemith.

As he approaches his sixtieth birthday Hindemith, who has been visiting London to conduct for the BBC and the Royal Phil- harmonic Society, seems at last to be falling into......

Vie 6pettator

ON Wednesday, a young lady apparently about twenty years of age, threw herself into the canal in St. James's Park. She was taken out without much damage, and conveyed in a coach......

Television And Radio

FOUR newcomers appeared in In the News: the Countess of Birkenhead, Lady Pakenham, Mr. Randolph Churchill and Mr. George Woodcock. Most viewers, I am sure, were as prepared as I......

The Covent Garden Revival Last Week Of Sym- Phonic...

was one of the truly satis- fying occasions of this winter's ballet activity; a work of this scale and scope can come only from a master, and it is an illustration of that odd......