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" The Freak Of The Show

SOME of us may remember that several years ago the old genius of Wagner was daringly presented by the British National Opera Company in a series of new and highly untra-......

Richelieu

The Cardinal Dictator. By Augusto Bally. (Cape. 15s.) FRANCE of the early seventeenth century is for us still obscured by the tarnish of false romanticism which Dumas and his......