24 AUGUST 1951, page 12

"gbe Lippectator, Snug 23rb, 1851 Tim Fiat Has Gone Forth

for the close of the Industrial Exhibition on the 11th of October. Thus die away; like smoke in the transparent air, any hopes That may have been cherished by speculators, of......

The Edinburgh Festival

THE fifth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama has opened in an atmosphere of mild crisis, for all that the streets are crowded with guests bringing pounds and......

Music It Was Presumably The Imp Of The Perverse—not A

fairy forgotten at Sir Thomas Beecham's christening-party—who prompted his revival of Balfe's Bohemian Girl at Covent Garden. Balfe's connection with the Great Exhibition of......