23 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 18

Stuttgart Opera

IN describing Wieland Wagner's Stuttgart pro- duction of Fidelio as decadent I am trying to define, not to criticise, it. As everybody by now has read, he has thrown out the......

Contemporary Arts

Painting WILDE AND BRATBY Two exhibitions—of work by Gerald Wilde (Institute of Contemporary Art) and John Bratby (Beaux Arts Gallery)—ask to be con- sidered together, for their......

An Indian Biography Sir,—the Kesari-mahratta Trust Of...

me with the work of writing a biography in English of the late Lokamanya B. G. Tilak, pioneer in the field of the Indian freedom movement; he was described by Sir Valentine......

Flying Into London Airport

SIR,—Strix's suggested expression 'arriving by air' at London Airport is not only 'languid' and 'almost protocolaire.' It is also tautological. Have you ever tried to arrive at......