5 SEPTEMBER 1947, page 13

Mu S Ic Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Figaro Was Mainly...

at any rate, for the appearance of a new Cherubino: not simply a singer I had not heard before in the role, but a new solution of what is a perma- nent problem in all......

The Cinema

THE Copacabana, in case you are interested, is a genuine night club in Manhattan, and is listed in the New Yorker's comprehensive list of entertainments under the heading "Big......

Gramophone Notes.

IN the last two months there seems to have been a spate of nine- teenth-century overture recordings—Auber's Masaniello, Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict, Weber's Freischiitz,......

Contemporary Arts

THE THEATRE The Chiltern Hundreds." By Douglas Home. (Vaudeville.) OFF and on during the performance of The Chiltern Hundreds I kept thinking of the brilliant triviality of......