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Bats And Belles

By IRVING WARDLE 'IT won't be as bad as Manchester, anyway. We hope'; said the pro- duction secretary, an imperturb- ably fluent eighteen-year-old, fully aware that he was six......

Opera

The Diva By BERNARD LEVIN EVERY time, before those huge, handsome, red curtains twitch and rise, one gets the feeling—proper to any opera house—that there is a miracle waiting......

Theatre

Claustrophilia By ROBERT ROBINSON The Lesson and The Chairs. By Eugene Ionesco. (Royal Court.) —Honour Bright. By Donald Ogden Stewart. (Lyric, Ham- mersmith.)—For Children and......