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Cinema

The Sound Barrier. (Plaza.)—N6 de Pere Jammu. (New Gallery. —First Communion. (Academy.) I NOW know (I think) the principle of jet-propulsion, and why it is (or has been......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE King Henry the Sixth—Part HL By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) " I WONDER how the king escaped our hands." Shakespeare plunges into his chronicle with his first line,......

Music

ONCE again Glyndebourne has given us an admirable Cosi fan tutte. No other opera is so well suited to the house, the setting and the genius loci, for in Cosi fan tutte......

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