27 JULY 1956, page 18

Cheltenham Festival

BY entrusting the selection of the five new orchestral works for the first time to a panel of judges, with perhaps a keener interest than Sir John Barbirolli's in contemporary......

Earnest Prose

THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT. (Carl- ton.) The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit was a best- selling novel and (if the usherettes' comments I listened to are anything to go by)......

Driven To Drink

SOME of the people at Lime Grove occasionally forget that television is just another means of communication; that in itself it is of little interest and that its feats, such as......

The *politer

JULY 30, 1831 THE EX-KING OF FRANCE.—The Bourbo_Oi among other kingly qualities, had a disinclination to pay their debts. Pfaffenhoffen and others, Charles the Tellt'' owed......