18 JANUARY 1930, page 11

Music

THE LONDON OPERA FES'TIVAL.] THE London Opera Festival which is now ending at the New Scala Theatre has been the result of the enthusiasm of a few Oxford and Cambridge......

Persimmons

I N November a fresh colour invades the brown dusty streets and alleys of Peking ; a new object appears among the extraordinarily miscellaneous collections of lesser forms of......