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Old Furies BY CLIFFORD HANLEY Troilus and Cressida. (Lyceum, Edinburgh.) — Young Au- chinleck. (Gateway, Edin- burgh.)—The Doctor and the Devils. (Assembly Hall, Edinburgh.)......

Music

The King's Purse By DAVID CAIRNS It would be absurd to treat this incident as if it were typical of a Festival which, in the scope and coherence and bold imaginativeness of its......

Ballet

Strip Cartoon By CLIVE BARNES THE other day Georg Solti said the Covent Garden Opera House needed a rehearsal stage like a loaf of bread. On that reckoning the Edinburgh Fes-......