14 DECEMBER 1996, page 26

Demons, Noise And Buffoonery

. . . Jonathan Cecil laments that there is none of this in today's variety show style of pantomime ACTORS traditionally say they became stage-struck from the moment they saw the......

Phony Peace On Earth

E.C. Hodgkin recalls London's last prewar Christmas. And Andrew Gimson describes Berlin's E. C. Hodgkin writes: IT FELT much more like the first Christ- mas of war than the last......