15 JANUARY 1954, page 11

Theatre

Twelfth Night. BY William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) MORE than most plays of Shakespeare, Twelfth Night depends on atmosphere: nothing much happens in the play, lovers meet, are......

Opera

Le Coq d'Or. (Royal Opera House.) RUSSIAN opera has been poorly represented in the Covent Garden repertory hitherto, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel— for there seems no......

Contemporary Arts

ART T r y. (Tate Gallery.) seems clear that the specific contribu- tion made by Frenchmen to the School of rads (Rouaulr notwithstanding) has been essentially a decorative......