7 FEBRUARY 1958, page 19

Peter Grimes

AFTER the slightly depressing experience of the last revival of Peter Grimes at Covent Garden, the new one under Kubelik is heartening. Much in the music that then, in a......

Welcome Back

WELCOME back ! Bigger, hammier, juicier, more preposterous than ever, comes Laughton in a part exactly suited to his grandiloquent talents : that .of the shrewd, jowly old......

A Touch Of The Sun. By N. C. Hunter. (saville.)

MR. N. C. HUNTER'S plays would always be much better if the third act were removed in its entirety, and his latest is no exception. Everything, as be- fore, has been said at the......

So Far, So Bad

I CAN never quite see it, myself, this passion for Italian opera in Italian, whatever the cost. But presumably the well-known impresario S. A. Gorlinsky would not continue to......