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Ballet

Beautiful, Strong Syllables By CLIVE BARNES IN his autobiography Stravinsky quotes ap- provingly an anecdote concerning Mallarme and Degas. The painter, who dabbled in poetry,......

Theatre

Withering Cherry By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Cherry Orchard. (Ald- wych.) —Four to the Bar. (Arts.) The Cherry Orchard is held together as a play not so much by its plot as by its......