28 SEPTEMBER 1991, page 47

Our Revels Not Quite Ended

Frances Partridge SHAKESPEARE — HIT OR MISS by John Gielgud, with John Miller Sidgwick, £17.50, pp. 192 T he life behind the footlights has always fascinated the layman, and has......

Madonna-like, Or Just Gone A Bit Potty?

Rupert Christiansen THOSE TWENTIETH CENTURY BLUES by Michael Tippett Hutchinson, £16.99, pp.290 T a king a bow at the Proms a couple of weeks ago, Sir Michael Tippett, a willowy......