2 APRIL 1965, Page 17

Footnote (and food for thought).—This monu- mental production cost 0,000,

didn't quite fill the house (there were a few thirty-shilling seats left) and took £2,500 at the box office, the rest being met from the LCC and Arts Council grants and an 'industrial' donation from IBM United Kingdom Ltd., to whom salutations. The chorus had been rehearsing since before Christmas. That Davis's forces had to diSperse after one go makes me grind my teeth. Any truly aware city would have packed two repeat performances within the week.

CHARLES REID

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