11 MAY 1956, page 16

Bedroom Stuff

HOTEL PARADISO. By Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. (Winter Garden.) IT was an excellent idea to revive a French farce of the turn of the century for the benefit of......

Macabre

THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. (Plaza.) HITCHCOCK'S latest film to reach us, The Trouble with Harry, is not a thriller, though it has all the trappings of one; it is an eerie,......

Dance And Song

The Sadler's Wells Ballet celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with a species of gala performance : two solid old-time successes , The Rake's Progress and Facade framing Ash'......

Vaughan Williams

THE latest symphony by Vaughan Williams, No. 8, in D minor, played for the first time at a Halle concert in Manchester last week, shows the composer once again larking about......

Ehe 6pettator

MAY 14, 1831 NEARLY half, we believe, of the existing Peerages were conferred during the last fifty years. How many of these were bestowed b); the free pleasure of a King'? Very......