31 JULY 1964, page 15

More Than Their Due?

THE first sign of boredom in Bouvard and Pecuchet after their first great burst A scholarly colleague to whom I exclaimed about the night's tameness as compared with the grip......

Opening Time

B y HILARY SPURLING The Taming of the Shrew. (Regent's Park.)- , p, Othello. (The National 0 , atmosphere of major CD modern productions one co forgets that Shakespeare -P......

Live Like Piggy

°' ALLEGORY in the cinema is like garlic in cooking, a temptation, a source of '''',..„_...,•,, possible marvels, and fatal - - --_-% / if even slightly overused. A temptation......