25 APRIL 1970, page 18

Opera

Island story JOHN HIGGINS A year ago Edward Downes, introducing Humphrey Searle's Hamlet to a Sunday evening gathering of the Friends of Covent Garden, said it was the duty of......

Arts

Trouble in the pit GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE So the London orchestras are squabbling again. Its not surprising: hardly a month goes by without some juicy swap or scandal behind some......

Cinema

Little father PENELOPE HOUSTON The Sixth of July (Paris Pullman, `U') Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (Rialto, 'X') It is possibly slightly rough on the Russians that any......