5 OCTOBER 1956, page 20

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OCTOBER 8, 1831 THERE is a report current, to which we hesitate to give implicit belief, that the King, annoyed beyond endurance by the persecution of those about him, is......

Birthday Party

ROSSINI once complained that Beethoven was too inclined to give the listener a mighty thump in the ribs. There are many who would agree, many who find that the big orchestral......

A Good Start

THE new season has opened with a barrage of interesting exhibitions, all of which deserve far more than summary view. First two dead artists, the Frenchman Albert Gleizes (Marl-......

A Phoenix

ELECTRA. By Jean Giraudoux. (Oxford Play- house.)—THE VARIETY THEATRE OF CHINA. (Princes.) IT would have been a great pity if the Oxford Playhouse which, in the old days,......

Rock Bottom

THE LOWEST CRIME. (Berkeley.)—DoN CAMILLO'S LAST ROUND and DOUBLE DESTINY. (Paris-Pullman.) MY heart uncooperatively sank on hearing that The Lowest Crime was, as indeed it......