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Dancing Folk

THE European atmosphere at the close of the nineteenth century was unsympathetic to all forms of the art of dance; and it is more than mere coincidence that the many movements......

Waiting For The Train

WHATEVER else Samuel Beckett may be he is a great -entertainer. Waiting for Godot was a very funny play. All That Fall, written for the Third Programme, threw up lines of......

Contemporary Arts

Rebuilding London LONDON'S architectural pros- pect is far from encouraging. We have neither the economic resources nor, it would seem, the social dynamism to trans- form the......

Zbe Bpettator

JANUARY 21, 1832 PRIOR to the Revolution, the Foundling Hospi- tal in the metropolis of France was the only one in the kingdom; from all parts children were brought to Paris to......