... Sargent raised The curtain first rose on this brilliant scene at the Royal Opera House in London on March 26 this year. Amid the riot of colours of the carnival fair at St. Petersburg in 1830 dance the principals in Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet Petrushka ...

... nearly all the Berliners have lived their lives in such a macabre atmosphere of evil hurly-burly, of revolution, republic, riots, jumped-up dictators and political corner- boys they would settle for Little Willie himself to-morrow, if only they thought ...

... stealing our national revenue for interest on their miserable loans. A dangerous flashpoint threatened Alexandria erupted into riots, and Europeans were killed. In far-away Whitehall it was whispered fearfully that if Egypt or the Sudan fell prey to anarchy ...