4 DECEMBER 1953, page 10

Music

GREAT conductors, like other great 'men, are surrounded by many temptations which the rest of us are spared ; but they resemble the rest of us in that they often succumb to......

Art

As an hors d'oeuvre to the FlemiSh exhibition at Burlington House, Londoners might well sample the several collections, 'arbitrary but rewarding, of European masters to be seen......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE A Day by the Sea. By N. C. Hunter. (Hay- market.)—Someone Waiting. By Emlyn Williams. (Globe.)—Othello. By William Shakespeare. (Sloane School.) "ENGLISH CHEKHOV " has......