16 JUNE 1950, page 15

The Maggio Musicale."

Florence. IT was not until last February that the Comune of Florence knew definitely that the State would, as usual, provide half the financial backing for the Maggio Musicale,......

Ballet

"Le Lac des Cygnes." (Covent Garden.) Tuts week critics were invited to see Beryl Grey in , the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, an invitation which had been deferred......

Art

THE most rtfreshing exhibition to be seen in London is that at Messrs. Roland, Browse and Delbanco's gallery, in aid of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution. Bonnard, in......

The Observer Has Organised An Exhibition Of Portraits Of...

which will be on view at the R.W.S. Galleries, Conduit Street, until June 22nd, and has made a very good job of it. Nearly all the two hundred works are contemporary, for the......

Music

IT is a curiosity of history that the two great ring-stories, Wagner's and Browning's, were given to the world within a few years of each other. The Ring and the Book appeared......