18 DECEMBER 1953, page 13

Music

SIBELIUS 's eighty-eighth birthday on De- cember 8th was celebrated by the London Symphony Orchestra which gave a concert of his music at the Festival Hall, Anthony Collins......

Art

THE " metaphysical assurance," as it has been called, which the artist derives from group activity can often warm his talents as the Mediterranean sun warms a stranger from the......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE A Question of Fact. By Wynyard Browne. (Piccadilly).—The Orchard Walls. By MANY F. Delderfield. (St. Martin's). MANY people who saw and enjoyed Wyn- yard Browne's last......