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Cinema

A Kind of Truth By ISABEL QUIGLY Billy Liar. (Warner; 'A' cer- tificate.) AT first sight John Schlesinger seems to fit very neatly, almost repetitively, into the pattern......

Opera

Fairy Flute By DAVID CAIRNS HAVING got to know the music of The Magic Flute thoroughly and absorbed its message be- fore I saw ,it on the stage, I could never undergtand, what......