24 DECEMBER 1965, page 17

Arts & Amusements

The Violent Years By HILARY SPURLING Treasure Island. (Mermaid.)—The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew. (Aldwych.) — Peter Pan. (Scala.) — Give a Dog a Bone. (Westminster.) — Charlie......

Music

Lhude Sing O N the notion, inbred and unrepented, that everyone should take in a Messiah before Christmas, I shoehorned myself into a packed Festival Hall and found John......

Art

Tudor Top Drawer T HERE'S a stretch of Tudorbethan portraiture between Holbein and the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver which is usually regarded as one of the......