5 JANUARY 1962, page 28

Theatre

Word-Play By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Cinderella. (Players' Theatre.) —Little Old King Cole. (Pal- lad i um.)—Puss in Boots. (Theatre Royal.) — Alice Through the Looking-Glass. (Lyric,......

Television

Down Coronation Street By PETER FORSTER To judge from Mr. Derek Hill's ecstatic plug for Coronation Street in last week's Spectator, I have been defaulting in my duty as a......

Opera

The End of the Beginning ? By DAVID CAIRNS 10 raise 'their hesitant British voices in Auld lang syne.' There is not, of course, the smallest danger that auld acquaintance will......