27 DECEMBER 1969, page 21

Opera

Fighting cock CHARLES REID When choosing what `Christmassy' piece to put on, theatre managements do not, as a rule—a rule which applies in Opera houses as elsewhere—ask......

Art

Groaning board PAUL GRINKE Food is rapidly becoming a topic of con- suming interest with Christmas in the offing, and the Hampstead Artists' Council has made an excellent......

Arts Up The Creek

STEPHEN GARDINER The other day the West London Architec- tural Society put on an audio-visual show about the Thames. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century this river has......