2 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 16

Theatre

THE faint grumbling in the background is pre- sumably intended to suggest the noise of waves breaking on shingle. It more closely resembles snoring, a response that the first......

Art

ENGLISH sculptors have been particularly faithful in the past forty years to the sculptural orthodoxies of the period. No artists have been so devoted to the principle that......

Ballet

WHEN is failure noble, and when is it merely undignified? What minimum artistic condi- tions must be satisfied, however imperfectly, for us to feel gratitude rather than......

Opera

GLYNDEBOURNE'S new production of Verdi's Falstaff has been the outstanding musical experience of the festival. It is very much Italian in musical conception and performance, all......