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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1955 13 At the Films At the Theatre Music Which of the Coty skin types are vou MADE IN JAPAN VERSATILITY Handel's Life in London By KENNETH TYNAN By C. A. LEJEUNE As far as 1 can judge of oriental workmanship, Seven Samurai is a very tidy job irdeed. The acting makes individuals of the seven Samurai; the strategy of defence is splendidly exciting; and the insistent, faint call of a cuckoo in the woods THE Japanese are not afraid of displays of violence on the screen. Their films, unlike ours, accept ferocity as a fact of life.

They do not excuse it, advocate it, or linger over it. They TWO plavs bv Mr. Philip King opened on consecutive nights last week. This marks not onh a smart theatrical right and left but also the return to our drama of a figure long-lacked the sound journeyman 1 a y-wnehl on whom we somehow brings the whole thing home to us quite clear over centuries and continents and oceans. My only complaint concerns the subtitles, which strike me as unworthy of a film of stature.

They are plainly-designed for American film audiences, and I appreciate that it would hf uneconomical to nrovide a snecial I Dry Skin version for the United Kingdom; but I Here's a tip. Cream-cleanse your face, I must protest that such phrases as once a day, with Coty Cleansing Cream tor eikins. Cleanses deeply. Protects. Lubricates.

Price 5 1. JJANDEL a Documentary Biography," by Otto Erich Deutsch (Black, a work of 942 pages, has been produced to look very much like the same scholar's compilation of the Schubert documents, though the latter had a different publisher (Dent). The Schubert material had to be translated from the German; the Handel is mainly of English origin, not only because much the greater part of Handel's life was spent in London, but also because, for one thing, he was not very widely famous until he had settled there for good in 1712. Its profusion is indeed almost embarrassing, and at first sight but at firsl sight only its endless minute details make the solid tome look rather forbidding. The reader has to resign himself to a certain disproportion.

He learns next to nothing at first hand of the composer's childhood at Halle and his adolescence, not much about the period at the Hamburg Opera (1703-6), not nearly enough about the extremely interesting and picturesque formative vears in Itah (1707-111) and little about the shor! period of service at the cou't of Hanover (1710-12). which was greatly curtailed even so by the lengthy first isit to England, during which Handel evidently formed that taste for the vigorous, busy, gay. cantankerous and intellectually stimulating life of eighteenth-cent urv London He was presented to Queen Anne, and Aaron Hill at once commissioned an opera Rinaldo for the King's Theatre in the Havmarkel, where it was given fifteen times before the end of Ihe season Its "songs" were primed bv Walsh and Hare together with the Symphonys and By ERIC BLOM Riturnels in a compleat manner even while it was still running, the youthful William Babell arranged harpsichord lessons from its music and the last performance was given at the Desire of several Persons of Quality" in place of Mancini's L'Idaspe fedele." Handel had met plenty of such persons by that time and doubtless enjoyed being persona grata. True, Addison and Steele poured scorn on Italian opera as such, but not on Rinaldo as a musical work; and we may be sure that Handel was quick to see that this sort of literary fencing was pari of London's alertness and that he was quite capable of standing up to it with a certain gusto. Indeed, it may have been this kind of hurly-burly he missed at Hanover.

He is said to have later on enjoyed "The Beggar's Opera," which satirised and endangered his own type of opera, although I am bound to say I can find no evidence for this in the documents even with the help of Deulsch's excellent index rriHAT there was plenty of vitriolic squirting is shown throughout Deutsch's splendid book. Handel did not escape scandal, lampooning -i nd caricaturing (the very gross Goupy engraving, "The Charming Hiulc," is among the thirty-one plates which adorn the volume so handsomely). But that was all in the day's work in his time, when nobody was in the least surprised at the rudest attacks on paper between pei sons who were perfectly polite each olher in society, and our modern lilv-livcred car ot libel actions had not yet been bred by the law. If Handel had been squeamish, he might have hated London, but then, remembering Dr. Johnson, we may as well say that he would have hated life, since things were much the same everywhere; and if it was all rather more hard-pressing in the English capital, that was precisely what so energetic a man as Handel would relish.

Chrysander's unfinished biography is one of the great Handel books, but it is marred by a disagreeable smugness which implies that the forthright and upright Gennanmaster must have felt most unhappily exiled in this alien welter of corruption. Of course there was corruption in eighteenth-century London, but it was the corruption of the age, to which Handel was quite If he was not more perturbed by various kinds of turpitude there than he would have been elsewhere, he also plainly enjoyed the easy familiarity of the grandees with persons of artistic eminence; the democratic spirit which sent musical amateurs of the quality to concerts in the ramshackle warehouse of the coal-man Thomas Britton; the warm friendship and charm of ladies of high breeding like Mrs. Delany and Mrs. Pendarves; the noble charity of Captain Coram and the open-hearted support of the patrons of his Foundling Hospital; and not least, of course, the manifold musical opportunities. Foreign artists in those days, much as now, were, if anything, snobbishly esteemed the more highly for their foreignness, and nobody took out naturalisation papers from sheer homelessness or because they meant the convenience of a British passport.

Handel turned English because he felt at home in London, where there was also a large place for Italian culture, and no doubt, too, because his music is far more deeply rooted in Italian and English than in German soil. "Oh "Hey, kid," and Brace up do not strictly represent the talk of Samurai even in the United States. At the beginning of A Prize of Gold (Odeon, Leicester-square) a store of gold bars, jettisoned by the Nazis, is dredged up from a canal in West Berlin. As confiscated enemy loot, the bullion is consigned by air lo London, under the escort of United States Airpolice Sergeant Richard Widmark, and British Security Sergeant George Cole. The story' goes on to tell how this enterprising couple arrange to make away with the money.

Sergeant Cole's motives, I'm afraid, are merely sordid. Sergeant Widmark wants his share of the loot to oblige a lady (Mai Zetterling). by paying the passages of a school of displaced children to Brazil. can depend while genius snoozes and the lunatic fringe has dandruft Such men are the theatre's backbone, the versatile stayers who, like Mr. T.

E. Bailey in another sphere, are always at hand to fend off collapse; the dramatic caretakers who look after the palace when the royal family is from home. Mr. King now joins them. His new farce, "Sailor Beware is what one might expect from the author of See How They Run." The surprise is Serious Charge (Ciarrick).

lis subject is small-town gossip, aimed at that most vulnerable target, the English male virgin this cue a young clergyman living with hi-, mother (Miss Olga Lindo). The first act hedges and dallies- Mi. King loves suspense, and sixty minutes pass before he tells us where his play is going, what time we have the sensation ot flying blind through a heavy mist Are we to focus on the frumpish spinster (avidly played by Miss Victoria Hopper') who seeks the vicar's heart'1 Or on Ihe pregnant villjgc girl who gels run Mr King savs nothing, and says it in English srnall-Uilk which, being so much smaller irun the Talk of other nalions h.is elicciisck aborted the emergence ot manv a tine English drd malisL simply record it, directly or by suggestion. It is extremely hard for any occidental, instinctively shocked by outward shows of violence, to know what Japanese films are getting at. The thrusts of murder and rapine are so savage; the joke follows the blow so quickly; the moments of serenity are so impressive; the tragedy and clowning has such a near, but not quite, Shakespearean knit, that any foreigner is apt to flounder.

Not many films have come to England from Japan. But after studying these few, it is hard not to believe that the best of Japanese directors are using this traditionally-violent style of drama quite deliberately, as a format for their own philosophy. Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (Academy) deserves very careful study. Kurosawa directed Rashomon." The present film shows a marked development from the earlier picture. At first sight it would seem to be a bloodcurdling account of the defence of a sixteenth-century village by a handful of knights hired to protect the harvest and the local maidens against bandits.

But by the time we reach its end, with the merry peasants garnering their crops against a background of newly thrown-up graves, we hae learnt something about the spring of life and the fall of professional chivalry. 2. Tired Skin For crepey, tired or Bagging skin, use Coty Conditioning Cream, regularly. Every ight.Con tains firming oils. Rounds out hollows.

Re-vitalises. Price 6 pa radoxicalls comes muih Uoser to realism The situation a working-class wedding threatened by a heavyweight mothcr-in-Uvs is as ancient as its development, whertby the husband-to-be j.lti his bride, but the dialogue is au'hcntic suburban poetr Miss Shcil.i Shand-Ciibbs and Mr. james Copcland perfectly catch the agony of the estranged lovers. Miss Ann Wilton is all derelict aunt-hood and Mr. Cnl Smith all unturned worm.

And in Miss Peggy Mount, a newcomer from repertory. London has a comedienne fit to be flood-lit. whose cllig should be raised above grac ot the mother-in-law joke whih. by her peerless exertions, she must surely have killed. Emma Hornett, as plaed by Miss Mount.

is not our rock-like, immovable virago, like the Marx Brothers' Margaret Dumont She scorches the earth about her by ceaseless physical activity, charging as she cleans, swooping as she dusts, even out of sight she intimidates, like the distant thunder of hooves. She is frankly a beast of a woman, a mobile fortress. a sadistic dnmptcuse, compound of basilisk and earth-mother, ol Gorgon and Zola And her face is heaven-sent for its job, a broad, baleful mask whose worst fears are constantly being confirmed she told us so. and now. if we don mind, we'll listen to her and stop fidgeting.

The savage impal icnce of isa Mount's acting must be seen to be bcliesed I he Itrst-mght intervals were unwontcdh short and there must hasc been m.m in the audience who pictured Miss Mount viciousK stabbmc ihe warning-bell and growling What did I tell you1 There they are, up in the bar drinking, when I ve got work to do. 1 ask of this magnificent player only that she will one day consider appearing in "Tristan and Isolde" opposite Mr. Wally Patch. The house rightly rose to her at the curtain, a house full of roarers who clearly cared lor the name of King A Kind of Folly (Ouchesst is that pitiful sight, the pot-boiler which won't boil. The author.

Mr Owen Holder (who also plays a subsidiary part), brings to pasteboard life an Edwardian triangle of husband, wife and mistress he holds no Liinik" aces in his hand, has none up his sleeve and shows little skill in shuffling Mr. Will rid Hyde While. Miss Flora Robson and Miss Jean Kent lead the cast, in that order of effectiveness. The setting, a drawing-room in Belgravia. is scarcely distinguishable from those of Dear Charles." Angels in Love." "Quadttlle" and Birthday Honours." in which drab galaxy "A Kind of Folly belongs.

One left the theal- feeling uniquely inclement towai that pretentious travesty of human speech and behaviour which nowadays passes lor In addition to the beauties alreadv I mentioned, the characters include a shady garage-keeper, a retired fence, a homicidal pilot, a blackmailed major, a small boy who picks up jeeps and other unconsidered trifles, and a licentious German builder whose relations with the heroine might be mildly described Munich Orchestra: HEYWORTH as equivocal. A Fnze ot Gold was made in Berlin and England for a Hollywood company, and its pic ture oi western morale may raise a grim smile in the Kremlin. The thing I liked best was a scarlet Messerschmitt scooter, or whatever they call that delightful pocket motor-car, covered with the sort of dome our grandparents used for the protection of wax flowers. 3. Problem Skin For shiny noses, or open pores or a tendency to blackheads, cleanse your skin frequently during the day with Dorma Cleansing Milk.

It's wonderfully effective. Price 63. FRhh. Pltase tend me beautv teaftrt. rntuted "lei Us Teach You To Be Beaittrful' I iLant to knots: the best uxty WORD to people who enjoy a strong, storming American musical comedy in the folklore tradition of Oklahoma and Annie Get Your Gun." Released this week is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a backwoods variation on the theme of the rape of the Sabine Women.

Although at times the i LEA.SU RE at the first visit to this country of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra was tempered by an uniortunate change of programme. Karl Amadeus Harl-mann's second symphony had been announced and as the first public performance in London of any of his six symphonies it would have done something to make good the neglect that this powerful talent suffers here. In the event he had to make way for Boris Blacher's Con-certante Musik." an elegant and deftly contrived curtain-raiser of no great consequence. Yet space was found for Bartok's Third Piano Concerto, whose wan. lunar landscape reveals, for all its beauty, no more than the pathetic shadow of a genius gutted by povcrly and disease and to which, in any case, neither the orchestra nor its conductor, Eugcn Jochum.

gave evidence of much temperamental affinity. Although the whole orchestra showed itself to be a highly competent and disciplined body, the reallv impressive thing about it is its rich, sasurated siring tone. Warm yet hvclv. it suffers I rum none of the jo sane care oj my tmn. oichesiras.

The Bavarian strings soared out with memorable brilliance in the closing bars of the Blacher, while in Brahms's Fourth Symphony they displayed a glorious range of autumnal colour, lor want ol which Brahms is so often and unjustly written off as an indifferent orcheslrator. It cannot, however, be said that Jochum always puts the fine instrument he has fashioned to good use. Determined lo achieve effect in Till Eulcnspiegel (as though Strauss had not himself attended to that) he destroyed the work's humour and humanity; while by arbitrary tempi he drove a coach and horses through the lowering structure of the pa ssac.ig I la finale and thus wrecked what might have been an impressive perlormance of the Brahms symphony. the fearlul culminative force of Die Wintcrreise," in which one song alter another plunges deeper into an abyss of inescapable despair, makes the work a supreme test of interpretative power. Last Sunday Hans Hotter gave a coherent and deeply felt account, lacking only in complete vocal steadiness and the neurasthenic intensity that is needed if the cycle is to make its full and terrible impact.

The second act lifts us into a world ot real cause and true etleu The vicat denounces the girl's seducci a repulsive blond spiv, who responds by cring lor help and alleging indeccnl assault; the village, alrcad predisposed to think the vicar a homosexual, credits the accusation: and so ends an admirable act. buicrk exciting and extremely well pljycd by Messrs. Anthony W.iger and Patrick McGoohan. But English censorship will not bear so perfect a trap To avoid a miscarriage ol justice, the villain must conless. which involves a final scene of melodramatic falsification wherein he behaves like a certifiable lunatic.

The promise of the middle act is dissolved in untruth A master dramatist. re-writing "Serious Charge." would have given the hero suppressed homosexual tendencies of which he is made suddenly and poignantly aware; that would have been the lorging of a tragedy as honest as Miss Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour" But Miss Hellman's play is banned in this country, and so would Mr King's have been had he ventured so Perhaps the idea occurred lo him. and with it the certain knowledge that the Lord Chamberlain would have crushed it on sight One cannot blame him for plaving safe. Sailor Beware (Strand), a parlour farce on which Mr King collaborated with Mr. Falkland Cary, Post this coupon, with d.

stamp enclmed, to Room 17, Coty Salon, 3 Sets Bond W.i. Hollywood taste for sex gets the better of any taste for taste, there is something triumphant in the film's sheer vitality of attack. Perhaps the most important person concerned with Seven Brides is never seen; Michael Kidd, the choreographer. The rhythm, gaiety and impetus he gets into his apparently informal dances are a splendour of their kind, and at least one sequence a kaleidoscopic barn-dance with the seven brothers whirling their partners through bright patterns of many colours is likly to remain oo of the classic passages of the screen. sty le." First Nights Television By KENNETH HARRIS HPWO new shows came to the screen last week.

If Arthur Askey's Before Your Very Eyes does not please the viewer, it sounds as though it is going to please the studio staff. They were fairly hooting with laughter all through the show, and one couldn't but wonder how they managed to keep the cameras going. It was in fact a most hilarious show, and if, after they have rested their aching ribs, the studio staff can put a few jokes into it by the time it comes on next, this series may please the viewers as well. Eric Barker's show is called Look at it this Way, and, though it is not clear what the Way is, there is no doubt that the show will have to be looked at in a very special kind of way if it is to be looked at for very long. Like Arthur Askey's series it relies on a series of sketches of the kind which were successful on sound radio about twenty-five years ago, given a veneer of modern TV technique by being laced with shots of film here and there.

Informality is secured by having a few things go wrong now and again by carefully planned accident and by having members of the cast talk knowingly to invisible technicians; intimacy, by having the chief comedian leer into the camera at the end of the programme and say he hopes we have enjoyed ourselves. When shall we be delivered of these TV troglodytes? In the News on Friday was good clear, interesting, topical. The discussion gave the viewer some sense of the pros and cons inherent in a subject, and not just a demonstration of party polities' cut and thrust. At the beginning the chairman made a deliberate protest against the rule that nothing may be discussed on a B.B.C. programme if the subject is to be debated by Parliament within two weeks.

This, he said, had that night prevented the panel from discussing the big news of the week that Britain was going to produce the hydrogen bomb. Radio By PAUL FERRIS gUSY with questions of time and identity, Pirandello's Henry IV seemed a vortex of words and situations. The Home Service version had Ernest Milton as the grotesque pseudo-king, placed by accident and then by his own design in a permanent state of make-believe and repudiation. He supplied a wonderfully lip-curling voice and spoke most of his lines with a sort of triumph, as if he had just discovered them for the first time; but the play's overall effect was melancholic and its discoveries bewildering. Radio, when it comes to a spell of steady listening, can provide the toughest ear with a stiff dose of bewilderment.

You hear so many people, with so many motives. Generally, though not always, those who carry on their own conversation, which we are allowed to overhear, arc preferable to those who direct their remarks at us. E. M. Forster, talking with wit and humility about The Mint," was an exception: it was a public address, beautifully done.

A discussion on Formosa, with Robert McKenzie as chairman, provided at times a closed circuit of conversation, without deference to eavesdroppers with wireless sets, and made worthwhile listening. American, British, and Australian viewpoints, put by Romney Wheeler, Desmond Donnelly, M.P., and Bruce Miller, were precisely normal what was worth while was to hear them put side by side, full of reason and wildly dissimilar. Tony Hancock is another with the genuineness that makes you think he goes on doing whatever he does in his case, being funny long after the programme is over. His Light Programme scries, Hancock's Half-hour, finished last week. He has been unfolding the case-history of that unexploiled character, the drone, and is a great exponent of the bewilderments of situation that beset a man with high hopes and unfortunate debilities like laziness this must warm many hearts, and certainly warms mine, towards him.

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It is good also to report lhat five colleges, Trinity, St. John's. King's, Cams, and Jesus run similar schemes independently; and to remark that this growing interest in the visual ans at Cambridge is fostered by the Society of Arts, which invites lecturers, and promises some gifted speakers, including Mr. Basil Spcnce, in the Mill Lane lecture rooms. In spite of the energies of Mr.

Cedric Price, Mr. Mark Roskill and their undergraduate associates, it is true to say, however, lhat Oxford is still the richer patron, though artistic competition has certainly never been keener. The assurance so frequently shown in large-scale painting by Messrs. TEMPERANCE To-day's Radio and Television Programmes Archie's the Boy 2.15. Band Boi; 3.0, Greetings from Austria; 3 JO, The Quiet TTu Gateway to Stanty Kiver 4.3U, Holiday nour; au, Lite with the Lyons; 6.0, Close-Up; 6.30, Take It From Here; 7.0, News; 7.30, Top of the Town; 8.15, Piano; 8.38, Hymns; 9.0, Grand juror.

And always ihe patient river bore lis awful burden towards Idlcy inspires Mr. Lancaster most memorably It was a purely Cambridge audience of undergraduates, however, including a visitor suspiciously like Zuleika. that addressed the other day in opening an exhibition of four young painters at the Heffer Gallery. This is presented by the Cambridge Contemporary Arts Trust, the admirable student organisation which hires out pictures and has so far got together some eighty contemporary works, maintaining these in constant circulation. It is interesting that Ivon Hitchens and Roland Suddaby are in briskest demand, though the collection also includes a Moore lithograph and works bv Adler.

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ucr 1 Monday 21 A 2fi Fct AT ft Twn evcnimM PALLADIUM. paintings, uauy ju-o. Aaturaays iu-1 30 Max Bviravcs, by itu- 4inLcr. from lenna wrlh bcUn i wicc dairy Mr Pasirv Peicr A Bifl Co. RED FERN GALLERY 20.

Cork W.I. Nn? Paintincs by EARL HA1G Drawings of a INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY CONCERTS. HAROLD HOLT Ltd. announce TO-DAY. 2 45.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL. GIOCONDA DE VITO B.B.C, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. uilnese Journey. 1VJ54. by ucma MA 1 ritwi Hours 10-6.

Sat. 10-1. Closes Feb. 26th. lppen A Hfttina crnon Bii ffv.c 5RO "I I SADLFRS WELLS Tlt IT: Ni i-crf Min Li.a uc La Tratata.

r-d I oca. 1 hur The Mai Flute. Pn Die Fltdenna.ua. STOI I Mar "lh rmv onh. bcaton 1IU.KN OPFRA.

Book no CARL ROSA OPFR. 2 Week rh 21 A 2H, Ihrnire Roil Hankv Sink cm-Trcnt 1 oyarpLKjny, jtmsiviui it-1 tiv i Piano Concerto. Emperor BEETHOVEN ROLAND, BROVVSE DELBANCO, 19 CORK STREET W.I. Recent Drawings by JOSEF HhRMAN, Paintings Theatre B.O.A.C.'b "Coronet" services bring air travel within your reach' Low Tourist fares! princely comfort'. To the East, full y-pressurred, riir-comlitioiied A rgmtuut a quiet, KHiiiiv two-cabin airliner ntlh four ravel 1 SIR MALCOLM SARGENT Bolero RA WALTER PANHOFER UCSIimS by KtMrsll-iH KUWtLL ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER-ETCHERS.

DVORAK Overture Carncval. BRAHMS Violin Conccno Si BEL US Svmnhonv N'n I First London appearance of this 16. CONDUIT ST W.I 105 Sam 10-1 I Celebrated Austrian rianist. 100 WATERCOLOUR5 BY BERIC YOUNG PRINCE OF WES. Whi ShSl 6 15.

8 50 MJRM ISDIJM in Gay Musical Show uans (roni Lnndon Palladium. Final 2 Wks PKINCF-S. fir- 21 7 45 30 A 30 Th 2 311 Pal Kirkwond in Wooderful Town. Sham Sidney lame 1 cm o54n RO VI COt RT. Mo I mi 2 rtti 1H MdH rh 2 '0 Sal 5 Man Adrian 1 ira I dxer Sa'T Rose Hill in I i I MRS ON SMOt-STRI NC.

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r.imrd Revue "Sc proit SO I 4s Shi 10 id ed 2 45 Maraaiel 111! kssnoll with relin Aslmer in Aaallia CHRISTIE SPIDER'S WEB. R.B A. GaUencs, Suflo.k St. Pall Mall Easi! J.6; Hal1 i I t. '6 ht6' 7 6l tL'6, 1: 6 I Daily 10-5 IBBS A TILLETT id 12J.

Wigmore Su. 1. I Bot Office. Ken 82 2. open to-day from 10 a m.

R1TZ. Ger 124. To-day 5.20 A. 8.0. M.G.M.

SEVEN BRIDES tUt. CmemaScope STUDIO ONE. Fcrnandcl'-i laieit not. The Baker of Valoncac I I at 5 25 15 Moon Island (Ul. Doors open I.at proa 7 15 WARNER.

Ger Dorrs Day Frank Sinatra in oung at Heart IUI in Colour. Proe to-day 4 30. 7 15 Wkdyv from 10.10 FESTIVAL PITLOCUR. Ma-Scp Pinero. Sfta.

Quimero A. i Comedies. Concerts. Art. Rep Sd I 7 rork.St..- ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL.

FRI. NEXT. 8 Greece. ELY MOMLAKF Drainss JACQUES ORCHESTRA Monotynr. 10-6.

Sals 10-1. 1 a- nrruif IArrkTTFC I TOOTH'S: TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY Some Ur. KIAillALU important ccntcmporancs. Dly. 9.30-5.30.

Sat 1 TA fff IC1NA 9.30-1. 31. Bruton St 1. Closing Feb. 26 CT WALKER'S GALLERIES.

Ill New Bond St. I Orchestral Stlftc No. 3 in BACH William Callrm. RWS. 1 1 2-1 0S Water- Piano Concerto No 27 K.595 MOZART i 1 i Rrj rsrVrth ra Corfccertn No A(Tm EXHIBITIONS, KoIK-Ron t-e env'mo l'eiil i.f leu mom.

ilehi inii.s Irce meal-, bar service. A on Inn stuff of three to take jjihkI are of ou. No tiji or extra-, loo Von mot" Tourist ser i the Allantio bv double-locked cruiser ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL. To-morrovw m. The NEW ERA CONCERT SOCIETY presents ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RICHARD AUSTIN Sinfonia in major Bach Violin Concerto No 5 In A major Moan Symphony No 4 in Mahier MARIA STADER (soprano) RUGGIERO RICCI iolin) Tickets 12 10 6 3 6 itom Hall issAT 3 1 SI I and Agents vi.YijiIYsT i Vnsi siislV lOi isj CNEWS.

Annual Exhibition Watcr- i2nd Edition), 4.30-5 30 and Satj. 10- Old Bond Street. W.l. I INTERNATIONAL FURNISHING TEXTILES SymptlonvNo. 41 (lupiter) MOZART ROYI.

ACADEMY: ISth-Ccni European Mav inir l.niirhs Dat uncm. win tic Held Irom hen. Jt-sar auu Mar 12. 3rd Fir at WOOLLAVDS OF IBBS A. TILLETT Ltd 124.

Wiinnore St 1 1 rF" II I F. I- Sat fci Mai JOSEPH WEINGARTEN KNIGHTSBRIDCE. 1. Countries reprc-sersted ssill mLl Britain Ireland America. Italy.

Sssedcn. France. Germans. Siam WIGMORE ALL. SAT NEXT, al 7 30, CHOPIN RECITAL 0-.

at Hall (WEL 2141 IBBS 4 TILLETT 124. Wigmore W.l THE ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY I DOS (I Utl iciv Wrkdy. 10- iun lh Adm. 2, 6.LSI. wk BKAVX IS GALLERY.

Bruian Place I P.nntmt bv RUBbHT KILL Water PRLSTON GODDARD Daily 10- .10 Saturday 10-1 UnttJ February 22nd ALFRED BRUD. 36, Sackvillc Street. VV.l EXHIBITION OF OLD MASTERS. COOLrNC GALLERIES. "2h New Bond W.l Exhibition ot Pastels A Water-co lours by Kaihlec-j M.

Peruse. Lniil March 5. 10-5 30 Sau. 10-1 THE CRAFTS CENTRE of Great Britain, 16.1. Hay HiH London, W.l The Craft In ihe Home Exhibition until 2nd Anril.

Mon Trmrv 0 MCI SW.A1) DAS. HI OR I fVrt- I'L" hi 5 TH1 CR dVCp A Kn. Bud 1 Hiu.Hr lai-'n Cn- Jfikrrx Wild. Sap, 1 I' P.ihn Sljucr Bna-i Rit Hail I or ROT Hilrnm of id WINDMILL Pic Cirt REXI.DEMLLE 2ith rd i4th wrck) Cutii 12 15- 1' prrJ pm A an mm Prn-diKi-n SEVFR CLOSFD WNDHWfS. Tern '0? f) 0 Sat 5 'fi -ri cd 2 10 THE BOY FR1ED.

CONCERTS ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL. To-nwht at 7.30 LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL. SUN NEXT, at 3 ASH WEDNESDAY FEBRLARY, at 7.3 THEATRES. ADLLPM1 10 HI Jimmy Ldards I ont Hfk.yii, 1H1 1 Al.K OF Ilk lOW N. in Ml pclat mar 'lUiyhLcr: loi.i 1 ()V CH.

1 1 'viuj V. Hi Hammond ohn IcmcnLv Basil Sdnc- Relnrt I Ilk I 1 1 1 1 Gl AS.N LOCK. MBSSADORS. vv 'n Mai 1 i. 'i P.

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DICHESS. (Tern 82J i Mfn-Fn 'u Sat rS A fi0 Tu 2l0 Flora R.Mon lean Kent Vulfnd Hvde Whue A Kind of DIKE OF YORK'S. Ea 30 Sal ft i 30 Mats Ttvr 0 DaMd TOVLISS'IS kaihreen HARR1SOS m. FOR 1AR-EMBASSY. Pti o-n 1 a (Mem on.

1 THE WORLD OF SHOI OM ALF1CHEM EMPRESS HALL. Ful 1212 TnnJcr CINDERELLA ON 1CT Sora ka Evsn Wed Til Si Sin 1 A RRICK. TEM -wi 'i lu a ctoria Hoprx-' rank I i Jiga 1 SFRlOtS CHARC.F fi .1 i-c nrv. GLOBE Gcr HI is a dO AN FENPNG WITH BF R1CF ltlllt H.MRKET. Vh.

in v. irt jih Cordon Frr-i WI Sjrn n-c THE MATCHMAKER, Th, n- Ur-HER Whi wmii 1 2 Sal 1 in -0 Ihe Itittaiuc if lr Mjjytt-I Moon -T- n- HIPPOtlROMF mmlr your J'-'-o' A l'n- Bfi A A inivljl TrrmiruiJ. rt I 1 j' 7S Rrvml SI, 1 'VAY 6111- or GiasffOtr. Marvb't'r' flinjiirlwni an.1 your Tflephon ill rrc'trrn rr Jlu i ii i DENIS MATTHEWS DREAM OF GERONTIUS Four Preludes and Fusues, Book 2 Bach Sonata in malor. Od.

109 Beethoven Three Fantasies. On. 16. Mendelsohn HERMANN SCHERCHEN Suite. The Fatrv Oneen Purcell 1 Variations Sl Fuue on Handel theme Brahms day-Friday 10-5.

Sat. Adm. free FOVLES GALLERs Charina X-road. C.2. Fantasia Concename on CINEMAS i i'O.

io-. rip. sy-. 3.6 ft Man ana Michael Tippett 1 IBBS TILLETT Lid I2i. Wnmort Si 1 Ravel ROYAL FEST1VAI Hil WATerloo 3151 LUKitli AND CKlNOLIrJts arrapaecl py ipeme ol sorelli Noiah Wauah COLLAGES AND ENIBROI- La Valse 1 r3 d.iss:i ha.a-.re I'S miinth.i insta! mi ill DERIES bv Erma Harvey lames.

9- dUy. (inc. Three Nocturnes ueouiuy TO-DAY 10 nm FEB bau until March 12 Adm tree rickets 15 lo 3,6 (WAT 3191 Agents) C1MPEL Bis. JO South Mollon-Sl 1 Recent 7TpsvV.t a SMETERLIN Minliri, i lapcstriM hi Louis LE HROCOUY. s.utinii.i..

i oi jy A. GORLINSKY announces rTirvnin Rpritnl C. TAKES GOOD CARE OF YOU B.O.A CITY OF LONDON ART EXHIBITION. Guildhall 2 Dailv 10-5. Free.

JOAN HAMMOND Barcarolle. Op fQ. Four N.v(.i;'"rH (Elsari GHD1S RIPI.EV RICHARD LEWIS PsORMAN WALKER ARNOLD GREIR THE LONDON SMPHONV ORCHESTRA SIR M4LCOLM SARGENT Ticktrip 2 on wle at iho P.ox Offuc tn? R( i ALBERT HALL 'Kcni njvm 2.2- anj r.ir usual in-ltel aaenu, THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ROUL FtSMWI HU.I, NEXT, at 8 i 'ri Haydn Jc ti the nd for Soprano. Snlo and Mrictra Richard Amell irt p-i fi'rmancr i JFNMFfR WVYAN (tenure s'n -Beriloi! ninrnnv v. Beethoven Kf VI Tim HRfOM( ORCHESTRA SIR THOMVS BLtCHAM, Bt 12 tf di Hdl: A Chappell HANO ER GALLERV.

32a.St.GeolBe-St.. W. Lit M1! iCrcr i Akira kar-iw a SFFN ML Al li Prirov 4 10 '0 BERKELti Ml M0 TROIS FEMME.S 1 CC 1 TH ANN CHOSS Hi. CAMF.O-Puli Lr crnandci Tht Shep Ha I rc '1 Tn 4 0 Lt Vs CARI TON 'Whi ClNFMASCtPE Marlon Bnrjn itn Mrnmnn THire Al. Ci- Isi-div 4 "mi 2u W.d'-i Ij-irn I 10 A'ilNiJ.

1 taramn rL SO Prr1 2 10 A 40 Bontvahtr; CrNFPHONK SclinOa A HI- slAl- i 'VJnlii t. N'ght CJub 1 1 tN USHMMI- A 1 St is il1'' Pan Vtnor 1 KnottH (MM Hoi llolida) iLh. CI RON Jr Sua Imkrfo D. i WrLcomc Mr. Miirrtnll iU.

1 -0 1 lude A "iff- Arta from Tosca. Madame Builerflv The I n- Three Marurka in 22 4HTHL JFFFRF-SS i PI CTL'R ES 1 I Father. Ac Prelude. Act III (La Tranata). Ticteti lift 10 1 Street 1 First London Exhibition ot Dance of the Hours, Overture.

Prince Igor 0 r-amrne VtROTH A TANNING First xhi'-ici. naimmia BARBARA HLSTnB OrwninH Feb 22 at 3 FE RF. C. alien 30 Pruion St MOBILES ROVAL ALBERT HALL. IRI A GORLIN.SkTr rtn GIG LI Tick is III ti Roval Philharmonic Orchestra STANFORD ROBINSON 6.

5 7fi 10 6 from Hall I KEN 82121 CllDtR nis m-s in in-l Lsl Pa 1 I 1 Eatisn Square I 3 SFOlSD -WO LAST CONnST SI MARCH r. at tfl BOX I in i 1 is1 livkcts 1 ri in. 1 rioru Hall I IsL.S i u-jji MtRIBOROir.H t-l lid Braid Sl Wl Twirir-TH ti a 1' M.ii.sr ldlltllanl Opens iMh 1 chrujrs INsrriTL'TO DE ESPANA. I Musics rsparVOa ni Lumcj lada nh (r.ds iQ rids nc.