6 JANUARY 1950, page 17

— Arty 'pectator," January 5th, 1850

WHAT IS A CENTURY ?—HOW MUCH IS HALF ? Can you count a hundred ? Nobably you have advanced thus far t in the science of arithmetic, and in that case you can say whether a:......

South Bank Site

(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) NEAR Waterloo did Herbert Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Thames, the ancient river, ran Past taverns numberless to man......

Music The Ordinary Citizen Who Attends Perhaps Half A Dozen

concerts in the year will hardly have noticed the change that has crept over one of the lesser features of our concert life in the last few years. Perhaps he does not, in any......

Radio

THE dust raised by Christmas and the New Year is beginning to settle ; but, before we forget the season altogether, may I salute Alexandra Palace for its farewell to 1949 and......