6 FEBRUARY 1953, page 12

Music

Verdi and Schubert. • " Tun pace and manner of dancing the tango vary considerably with the nationality of the dancers; and one would hardly recognise in our staid though still......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE MR. MAUGHAM'S dry satirical comedy revives exceedingly well. While the passage of time from its first production in 1930 has inevitably dated its more superficial......

Vienna

The khaki soldier loitering in the street yeplaces Baedeker's light-hearted crowd, The squares are paved with memories of defeat, Nostalgia fills the opera like a cloud. The......

Sonnet

From the Spanish of Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (1559-1613) Bearing her vineleaves after her, October Has gone and, haughty with the great-rains now, Ebro will neither bridge......