Comedy in three acts by Marivaux performed by members of the Comedie Franchise on gramophone records
Cast in order of speaking (in French)
Produced by Maurice Escande
'Weighing fly's eggs in cobweb scales' was Voltaire's sharp verdict on Marivaux's characteristically fine-spun dialogue. But Voltaire was easily jealous of his contemporaries, and Marivaux's cobweb scales have lasted well enough to give him an assured, if minor, place among the classics of the French theatre.
Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, his best-known work, is a perfect example of eighteenth-century stylisation. The hero and heroine, about to meet for the first time, disguise themselves as their respective servants, the better to observe each other's character before agreeing to be married. The double deception has the expected result: the two supposed servants fall in love, and the interest lies in the art with which the dramatist leads them, by exquisite gradations, to admit an emotion neither wishes to confess. Lance Robson

« DIE SCHULE
DER FRAUEN'
(' The School for Wives ')
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Heinrich Strobel based on Molière's comedy
' L'ecole des femmes '
Music by Rolf Liebermann
(first performance of revised German version)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED by GEORGE SZELL
Producer, Oskar Fritz Schuh
Scene: An open square with the two houses in which Arnolphe and Agnes live. (Relayed from Salzburg by courtesy of Oesterreichischer Rundfunk)

by H. W. R. Wade
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Report of the Franks Committee on Administrative Tribunals was published last month.

George Malcolm
(harpsichord)
Deuxieme Ordre
La Laboricuse; Premiere Courante; Seconde Courante ; La Prude; L'Antonine; Gavotte; Menuet; Les Canaries; Passepied; Rigaudon; La Charolaise; La Diane; Fanfare; La Terpsichore; La Florentine; La Gamier; La Babet; Les Idees heureuses; La Mimi; La Diiigente; La Flatteuse; La Voluptueuse; Les Papillons

compared with an actor's
George Barker and Marius Goring with James Reeves
In two previous broadcasts C. Day Lewis and Robert Graves read their own poems and compared their readings with an actor's. In this programme
George Barker and Marius Goring take part in a similar experiment. After recording their readings of Letter to a Young Poet and To My Mother by George Barker , they meet to discuss their interpretations with James Reeves.