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Theatre

Old Pike By DAVID PRYCE-JONES The Big House. (Theatre Royal, Stratford, E.)—The Ides of March. (Haymar- ket.) THE New Pike company from Dublin hopes to establish itself in......

Architecture

Our Villages By TERENCE BENDIXSON The cause of the observations is a few acres of narrow, winding streets, a tight society of different-sized houses and a homespun mixture of......

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......