22 DECEMBER 1950, Page 10

F for Festival

(Fantasia for forty flutes, five fiddles, fifty fifes, four fog-horns. fifteen flageolets. 9.)

FIASCO-FLAP, fault-finding, flop-funk—flee! Fervour flare forth, for frantic (free-vote) Fun, For Fame, for fashion-fabrics (f.o.b.)! Fanfare for Festival, for Fifty-one!

From Finnish fell, from Fuegan fjord forlorn, Feudy Formosa, Finchley-road, Funchal Forgather fruitful friends, fair, fuscous, fawn (fanfare, featuring flags) For Festival!

Fellow-folk, forward! —furbished foreigner-fit ;• Faglock folk-dancing, factories frightfully functional, Farm-hands festooned, feudalities flood-lit (fanfare, for fixing frills) For Festival!

Fortuna—fictional-fairy, factual foe, Fallible, fetish, futureless femme fatale- Funny-stuff, frowns, fifth-coluninry forgo (fanfare, forewarning Fate) For Festival!

Firstly, from frisks familiar forbear— From fog, fluidity, from Fahrenheit-fall- Freakishly fine, fortuitously fair

(fanfare, feeble from flu) For Festival!

Free- fuller foodstuffs ; famishment forswear ; From fridgy fund—favour fantasticall- Furnish (fains fish!) forgotten fleshy fare (fanfare, flourishing forks) For Festival!

Forbear—for Fifty-orie—from franchise-fray. Further financial flatulence forestall.

Forbid—Fortune forfend !—fresh fiscal-flay (fanfare, from fleeceless flock) For Festival!

Finally, Fate—foremost felicity, First fundamental—fervid faith fore-run, Fissionless fare, from foreign fireworks free! Fanfare for Festival,gtor Fifty-one!