22 JULY 1955, page 18

Contemporary Arts

Berlin Theatre How difficult it is for the critic to judge the quality of theatrical repertory performed in another country and another language. Coming to Berlin, where all the......

Theatre

I WAS brought up to think of this play (which I have never before seen on the stage) as a perfunctory, perhaps even a rueful hark- quinade : a sort of. Midnight Matinee in......

Opera

A NEW production of Aida at Covent Garden will not be an extravagance when it comes. The current one has done good service fo,r several years now, and has begun to look a hit......

Television

LIFE WITH THE LYONS has something en- gaging about it. For all its platitudes of calf- love, brother-and-sister rows, male vanity. Mom's niceness, burnt food and parental......