13 JANUARY 1961, page 17

Records

Celebrated Ladies By DAVID CAIRNS' IN The Art of the Prima Donna (Decca, two discs, each available separ- ately) Joan Sutherland pays homage to the divas of the last 150 years......

Theatre

Plays and Players By ALAN BRIEN You always remember the last wave--the hor- rible, spumy, leg-en- tangling splodge of flot- sam and jetsam which swirls around Christmas. But as......