18 OCTOBER 1957, page 19

Contemporary Arts

French Leave assembly. Forty or fifty discreetly THERE gathered this August in the charming mediieval town of Sarlat in the Dordogne a curiously assor- ted but admirably......

A Silent World

THE art of silent . mime has been in almost entire eclipse in the European theatre for at least h ilf a century—save in France, where the peculiar mime conventions of Deburau......

Tly G)pertator

OCTOBER 20, 1832 A CONSERVATIVE gentleman of Bristol lately sent to a tradesman a message, stating that he was in want of certain articles of the other's manufacture; but that,......