23 DECEMBER 1949, page 15

Art

Most' people will want to see Eugene Berman's felicitously baroque theatre designs at the Hanover Gallery, and it would be a pity to miss the most recent of those little mixed......

Cookery

Television (also on Christmas Eve) has the Coventry Nativity Play. 1 salute, by the way, Mr. Philip Harben, who always makes a good job of his television cookery programmes, and......

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Carols And Parties

This week ends, on its top note, with the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, from King's College, Cambridge. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," cried those......

Starvation Or Satiety In General, I Feel That, If At

Christmas-time the B.B.C. did not give us Christmas programmes, we should feel a little starved ; which robs us of the right to complain that we feel a little satiated. The only......

Music

THE performance of Lohengrin at Covent Garden on Decem- ber 15th was like meeting an old, half-forgotten friend. By general consent of the perfect Wagnerites, this is a......

The Greek Anthology And After

The heart's voice is unchanged from the beginning. What is there more to say than here is told ? What melody is missed—except a singing Heard on a - midnight in a Syrian fold ?......

Radio

MY favourite American magazine, which records in highlights the mores of the U.S.A., chronicles: Never before had Santa Claus worked so hard to give U.S. retailers a merry......

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