29 JULY 1922, page 15

The Theatre.

OrEN - ara performances of plays, pageants and operas, however alluring in theory, are generally unsatisfactory in practice. But the performance of Gluck's delicious opera in a......

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The Cuckoo And Other Birds.

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Poetry.

THE PAUSE. " Votre dine est un paysage choisi." Orr this lawn's most secret shade The masked Joys droop in their dance As though the spirit of the maid Wearied beneath the......

The Wood.

Tax crouching forms of crab trees will point you To the wood's sodden edge, and watch you through The rotting gate ; and inside you will stand Uncertain—for two steep paths on......

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