6 JANUARY 1956, page 20

Church Patronage

Tim matter of patronage has for long been one of the conventional artistic talking points, but perhaps we do not sufficiently distinguish in our arguments and grumbles between......

New Sonata

IT was Michael Tippett who started off 1955, musically, with the first performance of his opera The Midsummer Marriage, and it was he again who closed it, with a new sonata for......

Babies And Cowboys

FRUITS D'ET6. (Marble Arch Pavilion.)—Trin GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING. (Rialto.) —Gtoay. , (Gaumont.) IN the shadow-play world 1956 started off on a brisk risque note with a......

The Third

I, TOO, used to resent the way in which radio critics devoted so much of their attention to television. In the past few days I have been listening, instead of viewing : mainly......

Tfje 6prttator

JANUARY 8, 1831 No one will deny that the proper business of a Member of Parliament is to legislate for the good of the country, and that it is his duty to put aside all motives......