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9 AT THE THEATRE AT THE FILMS The Russian Wav elling Companions 1 rav By KENNETH TYNAN SAIL BETWEEN FEBRUARY I ST AND MAY 31 ST 'AND SAVE FROM 80 TO 140 vision. Round the big joke, however, there is a cluster of jokes, involving B.B.C. personalities, programmes practice. Simon and Laura leans towards farce, but 1 never topples over. It.

is admirably served by its players; Peter. Finch and -Kay Kendall as the Fosters, lan Carihichael and Richard Watti's: representing the and a number of smallrpart players sketching in the mannerisms of the Corporation with acumen but without roalice, It might have cut deeper, but would -baye pleased less. Partnering this1 comedy is Qo Such a Night, a forty-minute documentary by Anthony Asquith. from.a script by Paul Dehn, describing the impressions of an American visitor to Glyfrdeboume. A voung man Chicago (played Aitkin liiii 1 An 1894 poster by ihc Beggarsiujl Brothel .1 I James Pryde and William Slicholson).

and Ashley Havinden's 1936 poster, for the Milk Marketing Board: rum ihc exhibition mentioned below. 1 By C. A. LEJEUNE condemned "prisoner thai such a sum lis hidden in I his home, the preacher moves in on the prisoner's widow and children. The widow proves to be a meek woman of no account, and is eliminated with' a The children know where the money is, but run away, involving the preacher in an onerous huni 'through sinister, swampish, starlit country.

1 1 of the Hunter" is a confusion. ol real and false film art; "moments: startlihgly original, at others desperately phoney -It might have done better with different the leading part. Robert Milchum-plays the preacher straight for.melodrama.. without a hint of the man mystified by evangelical Lillian other hand, is 'fine as a rugged, lonely old woman who is prepared to 1 face the Devil himself the 'help of God. and a' sholgun.

Mr. Laiighton's direction is lamastically mannered, and the wnole film leaves a sourish flavour. But it by-no means the work of a fool, iA PLEASANT programme at the Gaumont introduces a comedy and a -documentary 'film, both peculiarly English. Simon and Laura, adapted bv Peter Blackmore from Aan Melville's- knowing and directed by Muriel Box in, Vista-Vision and Technicolor! is a skit on B.C. Television.

-'An eager young' "producer has an idea for a' nightly feature, which wilLshow viewers the simple beauty, of married life in the homes of the famous. Simon and Laura Foster. turbulenl stage; 'Stars who have been married their existence to have become a dog-and-car affair, are persuaded to represent this dulcet, "main, point of the of lies in the contrast between the Fosters' public and private' behaviour, and Ihe, climax concerns the glorious studio row televised" lo. a million! homes when an' obnoxious child, actor, with itching fingers and an inquiring mind, chooses the wrong moment, to switch 'on sound and 1 Music and Musicians FOR A CHANGE THE English have three fixed ideas about the Russian theatre that it plays Chekhov as broad farce, that it is entirely State subsidised, and that it is a hotbed of vouthful experiments. All of them are false.

Chekhov is handled here with the sober respect that befits a classic and 1 have seen an Ivanov who could have been mistaken for Werther. Slate subsidies were withdrawn in 1948 from everv legitimate plavhousc tn Moscow except the Mal. which is the equivalent of the Francaisc. And as foi youth and experiment! The only experimental director in Moscow is Utkcvich of ihe Satirical Ihcatre. about whose ferociously brilliant production of Klop I wrote last week; otherwise the theatre is a home of the solid, hoiirems virlues performing nmeteenth-centurv plays in surroundings of heavy scenic opulence, nd youth, so far from being at the helm, is lucky if it is even allowed to scrub the decks.

The power and the glorv of Soviet drama reside in its older actors, who are far and awa Ihc finest I have ever seen. With age ihey do not wither or grow frail, as our actors often do; they expand tn mind and muscle, a formidable parade of which every member is like Blake's Ancient of Days. Thcrf is a simple reason lor this contim-ity development. Eveiy theatre h.is a permancnl company and is run on the repertory system. that the same play is never seen on two consecutive nights, and in any given week the visitor has a choice ol 160 shows.

This means permanent economic security lor the variation prevents him from going. stale or ga-ga. In Moscow age is a badge of merit. (SEEING an Ostrovsky play at the Maly (why do we- neglect this author, easily the best nineteenth-century playwright before is like spending a week-end with old friends. On to the siage the giants trundle.

hawk-eed, spectacular dowagers like Turchaninova, ancient intriguers like Vladislavsky. all playing with a selfless economy and precision which reminds one of a group of champions at a bridge tournament. It is the same at he Moscow Arts Theatre. To-night Konsky. sardonic and lantern-jawed, will delight you in Wilde's An Ideal produced with the utmost splendour on a revolving stage gleaming wilh while colonnades.

The next night, in Tolstoy, it is (inbov. as a jaundiced, fish-eyed imniik. who sets you cheering, a day laiei. wilh his harrcl-cheslcd thunder, will transfix you. or Tarassova who weeps as readily as our actresses simper.

Finallv in Gorki's Lower Depths a dozen new will be thrust before you. faces from a Bosch Crucifixion, crapulous laces, swollen and condemned. Every step that is taken has beneath it a tradition ol immortal rock. These old playeis sil heavily (a chair broke under one of them at the Maly last week), fan themselves, gesture with their eyebrows and fingertips, ycl never for a moment lose the thread of the tapestry thev The perfect present for retiring people At the VENTURES By NEV1LE AST weekjhe Prospect Gallery opened at 13, Duke-street, St. James's, wijh the aim of encouraging serious British contemporaries.

In a first show that admits not one unworthy work, half the artists are under thirty, holding their own against C'cri Richards. Herman, and Minion who has two Catalan landscapes, one highly stylised, the other a straightforward panel, finely composed and saturated with light. Two new paintings conic from Peter Snow, one of the most gifted of the studenl generation, as discerning play-goers also know. In a sombre townscapc. Mr.

Snow employs the kind of intersecting pattern that Ncvinson adapted from Cubism, appearing more typically in a vibrant arabesque ol leaves and blossoms. The resonant hues of this painting, and the dramatic colour of Frank Auerbach's scene arc set off by the sombrcness of Mr. Greaves's "Shel: lield." and the virtually mono- Ballet By ALEXANDER BLAND 'J'HE second programme of Pilar Lopez's Spanish Company it the Palace Theatre provided some interesting comparisons and perhaps an object lesson, though the moral is hard lo spot. In the original version of I lie Three Cornet eil Hut Massine matched de halla's genuine Spanish music with choreography which copveys the Iberian flavour while preserving a freedom of movement which is not in the native idiom. Pilar Lopez's arrangement is.

of course, much more the real thing." But it is rather stitf and suited The new Miller's Dance, for instance though excitingly performed by Paco de Ronda-does not put across the mischief in ihe original. Shorn ol Picasso's decor, and with a English-sounding orchestra. Setiora Lopez was under a big handicap. Moreover Ihe ballet demands plcnly ol character-acting, in which the com pany pioved tolallv delicient. so lhat the comedy evaporated.

But Ihc hie and precision ol the dancing, was .1 pleasure alter some recent English attempts at the same game more spaniel than Spaniard and Pilar Lopez herself was a bewitching wile for a miller lo come home lo. In conlrast wis another Russn- Spanish number, an anangement of divertissements to Rimsky-Korsakov's Capnccio Espagnol." These revealed the hopelessly nnrdic fog of romance which clouds the music: evocative of Spain, it is not in the least Spanish. False-Spanish dancing seems to marrv happily wilh real-Spanish music: hut the reverse doesn'l work. Once again the Flamenco numbers were the best. Pilar Lopez looked glarnorotis and danced superbly a gipsv Romame ile Amor and dominated a successful final, suite of Caracole.

This was a programme than the first, but I hope we' shall see more in the lasl week of that little terror Antonio Monlava. First Nights To-vtORBUW. A Ctrl (Kich-mond I. TiJh.stm lw Hawthorn I ree i Vtitpune iBnviol Old Vic). Wtosi.iDAV Anniveraiy Wall: tLvric).

Tuursdvy: Sinume Boecanegra iS.idler's Wells -ridV. La BdIwiiw iC mom (jardcrtl. are weaving. The joy of watching master craftsmen workrng in unison is something I had never known till now. The 5stem has its drawbacks.

The old actors cling to the roles of their oulh. and will not surrender them to newcomers until the newcomers -themselves are loo old lo pla them. The point was well made in a recent speech hy the Minister of Culture, who said that Ihe dearth of new plays was partly due to Ihe problem ol writing conlemporarv roles for middle-aged actors. This is un-doubledK ifue. vet ihc regime itself is also to blame.

It can turn a good new plav into a bad one In Pans. Sartre's La Pulain Respectucuse was a vicious, effective squib, lasting just over an hour: here il lasts nearly three hours, has six sellings, and ends on an heroic lableau in which the tart and the negro look forward into a new dawn enlightened. M. Sartre's ironv has vanished, and the disquieting thing is thai he made the alterations himself. It is rum by "I SAID last week thai pure comedy.

as opposed lo satire, was rare in Moscow. But if conv-dv is tare. tragedy is non-existent Bv Western I standards, the spectacle of a man hounded and suffering, defeated by sociely oi hafllcd by ihe universe, constitutes tragedy, from which we detive a refinement ol our knowledge of humanily. Bui in Utopia, tragedy ol this kind is an impossibilitv there is always a wav oul. Mr.

Zuhov, the direclor ol the Maly Theatre, put the case lo me very clearly. Domestic tragedy, he said, was still conceivable. Ihoxigh it was fast disappearing social tragedy was unthinkable. In Soviet sociely a rmn could never he trapped. 1 mentioned Hamlet "Ah." he said, smiling broadly, is a golden page of ihc past." And he added that the circumstances which created ihe anguish of Lear and Macbeth simply did not exist, i in our society.

he concluded. (here may be collisions, but there are no That is ihe official altitude, and the drama dutifully reflects it. A generaiion ol actors is thus growing up whose acquaintance with tragic emotion is wholly confined to the classics. el 1 had to agree with Mr. Zubov when he said that the Russian theatre had no lime for plays which were merely aids lo digestion," There are many bad plays in Moscow; many bi easts hetiten and many lectures arc rea.l Bui you will never see a play eilhei cynically written or cynically performed.

The secondary I Ilea tie ol mindless farce and meaningless melodrama seems to be completely unknown. My ideal would be lo have a Western theatre organised on Russian lines but without Russian ideology' But fearthat without Ihe driving force of an ideology, such a ihealre could never be created. It is our tault and not theirs that we lack il. 1 will postpone critical discussion ol the English Hamlet until it arrives in London. Meanwhile, it is enough to say that although il was sometimes patchy and often incoherent, it did not disgrace us.

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villages and countryside near it tells the devoted simpleton, a poor girl who' is bought from her mother as assistant to a travelling showman; of the -strong man who maltreats her. and the mad clown who befriends her. I' am reasonably certain lhai La Strada." will be talked about lor' months to come and shall be 'surprised- if Giulieita Masina is as one of the leading actresses of year lor her performance as. the waif; in her husband's, Fedenco Fcllini's, film Sigriora Fellini" has been compared, with Chaplin, -Slan 'Laurel and Harpo Marx. She is the woman's version of a tragic clown.

She hides behind preposterous makeup. 1 drapes herself in scarecrow clothes. She makes faces and whimpers, quivers wilh curiosity. candidly displays the easy" grief and' merriment of a child. One-shot of' her will always contain the film, for.

me: the moment when she puts her' ear against a- telephone pole and listens, enchanted, to its Anthony Quinn. as the strong man. does well enough in a bullish way; and Richard Basehart, Ihe clown a calculated, Little Theatre But Masina is the film's heart. (CHARLES LAUGHTON'S first attempt at Him direction. The, Night of the Hunter (London Pavi-.

lion), is', a. murder story, but an ambilious one. His subject is nothing less than ihe fight between good and evil, and his main character is a psychopathic preacher who has stencilled on the knuckles of one hand, and on the knuckles of. the other. This lype feels himself impelled 10 build a tabernacle in the wilderness, to the cost ot which he needs S10.000.

Learning Irani HA YDN WE shall be thoroughly soaked and saturated in Mozart during the next few months on account ot his bicentenary so. that, it is pleasant to' think of another, treat master for a while. A new 0. book on Haydn symphonies otters an excellent opportunity. 11 is uigu time, too.

thai greater attention should be paid to the composer who. of all the masters, is by far the most neglected He may not be Ihe greatest' of the great, but the treatment he has received in' some respects, in comparison with that accorded to farllesscr men. such' as Lully or liltle shon of scandalous. There is'even, yet no collected edition of 'his works, that, begun in the early years, ot the present century Misproduced HEY WORTH been out of place in the naluralislic eighties. This is the sort of stylistic, jumble that must cast -reflection on the competency of the over-all artistic direction- at Covent Garden.

And one must'hope lhat Mr. Kubelik will not again- allow a miscasling as egregious as that' ot Maria von tlosyay, in herself a most dis- ting'uished singer, as Venus. The only pleasures of Ihe evening came from the admirable playing of the orchestra under' Rudolf -Keriipe and. from; Josephine Veascy's exceptionally well-sung shepherd boy. TAN LEY BATE'S Fourth Sym-phony has a certain ralher facile eloquence: it is not devoid of atlrac-.

live initial ideas, and some of the orchestral, writing is. if not al any rate-skiltul. Bui once Ihe stern Hindemithian corset that dominates the opening bars is cast oir. prevents each of Ihe three longer-movemenls from dclcriorating into a scries- ol rather superficially inler-conhected episodes. Only a delicale and finely spun scherzo maintains its' momenium to ihe end CINEPHONE.

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Somewhat oil the regular beat also, the Zwemmer Gallery shows water-colours by Laurence Scarfe, luminous, exolic, and Bawdcnesque; and others by Edwin La Dell, whose lyncal, raJther fragmentary impressions so exactly recall, the hour, of day that one might set one's watch by them. The current parade of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, on the other hand, is very much in the public eye- a thousand pairs being daily turned, at the R.I. Galleries, to tour portraits of the Queen, set against a Windsor backcloth or amid -the peoples and animals of the Commonwealth. No one can prelend that the Sociely has been regenerated; compliance with ihe lequirements of lashionable clients still prevails, though ihc mixture is not quite so devitalising this time. A few artists of sensibility have intruded, noticeably into ihe first toom.

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Gardincrs lhat hold one afresh in the main gallery. They set a standard, alas loo rarely attained. Tannhauser By PETER rTANNHAUSER is not an easy opera to The Paris version of the "Venusberg music with its Tristanesque ecstasy, as well as parts of the third act, tempt a producer to try something a little more imaginative than rhe roulipe handling of German romantic opera. But then the fiat and conventional passages in Ihe score land there are a number of them) lake, revenge by making such attempts appear pretentious and out of place. Even at Bayreuth the imaginative power of Wieland Wagner's highly symbolic produclion and the tremendous efficiency of its execution jusl, and only just, carry the day.

Spurred perhaps by this dangerous example. Covcnt Garden seem to have felt lhat their new production called for something more than the Carl Rosa conventionalities, without having any very clear idea of what 10 put in their place. The result is 'a ludicrous misalliance between Ralph Koltai's expressionistic sets and a. singularly ill-executed production by Sumner Austin lhat would not have PALLADIUM. Gcr 7371.

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Joyce Grcnfell LaaRltis-r la Paradise ILl. From 4 30 CMEO-Fot. LAN P44 Opening Dec I You ML ST see THE FIENDS (X) troro the slart Bv the man who made of Fear A CINEMASCOPE Prcturc Oart Gable lane Russell. Ttnbcrt Rsan in lit Tall Men II I. Col Today al 4 3(1 A 7 25 CVSINO.

cr ti-- Cinerama IL). 4 45, "30 Wlsdys. 3 Perls 2.30. 6 0 i 8 40 Bookable with a nice appreciation-ny Laviu Knight) finds hthiself ori the -platform nf three o'clock, of a summer's" afternoon. He is perplexed and': fascinated by the crowds of travellers in evening dress.

Curious, he follows them, and is rapt-into the experience, of. a night of. opera at Glyndebourhe-; 'The film deals specifically with a. performance of The touch is delicate, the singing a' delight." pioneer Western at the Carl-- ion, The Tall Men, entrusts Clark Gable and Robert. Ryan, two tough operators who have iio whatsoever for each other, with the task of transporting Jane" Russell and 5,000 head of, catHofrom Texas to Mon-.

lana through Sioux-infested territory. The cattle; are tolerably easy; to manage, maintaining' a steady righl-10-left movement across the Cinemascope screen' to balance the left-to-nght advance's' of the Indians; -but Miss who insists upon travelling with" a portable bath-tub, and seems unable- to remove her boots without male assistance, proves a1, bit of a The film is photographed -in something described as Wonderful Colour, which has a knack of turning even the horses blue. not pretend that it is cheap jane must add wilh every possible urgency thai it is worth the pretty penny it cosis. That it is reference, not lor reading, is true, are sections that will be lound fascinating. The'opening chap-lers, Authenticity and The Sources" and "Chronology," are as enthralling, bibliographically speaking, as a detcc-n've story, while the next two; on textual problems and performance, abound in details that will be, or at any rate should indispensable to conductors henceforth.

The huge second part, which gives details of all the symphonies (dates, instrumentation, matters of style, will be a veritable paradise for writers of programme notes to wander inand lose themselves at times, no doubt, among masses of information that no concert-giver would print. On the last twelve symphonies, commissioned by Salomon for his London concerts, there is first of all a chapter of some 120 pages containing what Mr. Landon calls a 'documentary, account" (programmes, crjticisms, letters, full of previously unknown material, and this is' followed by a detailed analysis of these works, which represent Haydri' in his fullest maturity and mastery. An Epilogue Haydn's Symphonic Legacy. comes next, which rather curiously represents the Masses as a natural outcome of Haydn's symphonic experience.

Two enormous; appendices contain -catalogue s. tfie." authentic symphonies and the spuriousTo'r. doubtful ones at various times' 'attributed to Haydn. These are as elaborately' detailed at least -as the 'entries ih'Kochers nionu-mental- Mozart catalogue. Mr.

Landon also prints' missing additional instrumental parts for a. number of symphonies, discovered by him in varidus at the end there' is a small" score of a hitherto unpublished symphony found in the Austrian monastery of St. Florian. H. C.

RobbinsrLandop, "The Symphonies; of Joseph Haydn." (Universal Edition and RockJiff, London. 6.) ROYAL FEStlVAL'bALL. TO-DAY. 3 p.m S. A.

GOR.LINSKY announccj ITALIAN OPERA QUARTET MARIA GRAZIA CUTERRl LIDO PETTTNI i (Baritone) ANNA Dl STASIO ANGELO ROSSI Mezzo-Soprano) i (Tenor) Prourammc of POPULAR OPERATIC ARIAS DUETS from. Bohenre, Tosca; Tratrlatas Carmen. Trovatore. etc. Quartet from Tickets: 36.

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GORLINSKY announces JOAN HAMMOND Roval Philharmonic Orchestra OPERATIC PROGRAMME Includinn The lewel-Sorur (Fault) Gounod Silver Moon fRuulka) Dvorak Mimi's Farewell (La Bbheme) Puccini. Ballet Music from Afda Verdi Suite. Carmen Biiet VILEM TAUSKY Ticketa: 36. il: 116. 10-.

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THURi. 1 Dec; 1 5. RECITAL ROOM. MARGARET MAJOR, viola PATRICIA CARROLL, piano lotnt winners ol T.M.A. Concert Award.

J955, with PAMELA STICKLEY, piano. Sonatas by Haydn. Schubert. Banok. Hlndemlth: and other works.

Tickets: 76. SI-, 216. ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL DEC. It. at 7.45.

In the Recital Room. Polish Cultural Institute presents ADAM MICKIEWICZ A centenary celebration of Poland's great poet and patriot in music and verse arranged by the Apollo Society, with ADELE LEIGH, soprano, PETER GELLHORN. piano! MARGARETTA SCOTT. CHRISTOPHER HASSALL DEREK HART, readers. Tickets: 26.

fr. Box Office (WATerloo 3190 ENTERTAINMENTS GUIDE By ERIC BLOM having broken down for one reason and another. It "is some, excuse that the collect m-o. Minus cvjiiuun 01 nayuiu )S one 0r lnc trickiest and most ing, silling and collating ot Haydn formidable tasks with which musical scholarship could well1 be laced. We do not know even now where all the manuscripls are.

or, very often, whether those in front of us arc genu-. ine of not. present book, which takes' 863 pages, to deal with one category, of' Haydn's1 output alone," shows clearly enough Ihc difficulties and not lo mention the sheer, hard with which' the Haydn' scholar Mr. Robbins Landon has devoted practically all -his life and time to highly specialised on Haydri, he also knows a great. Jdeab about Mozart and many other things.

Heis an American living in Vienna and married lo a German harpsichordist and Christa IJandon-Fuhrmann," who -has given him much assistance in-the making of his first book. He studied at Swarlhmore College and Boston Uni- concerned in the pew Haydn, edition which has now been started, from in lhat connection has had much to do with the, -eminent Danish Haydn scholar, Jens Peter-Larsen Jl may be asked why he chosen to publish his book'on an Austrian masier in English and in a country with whrcli, on the lace 'of il. he appears to be enlircly Well, as he says in his prclace, England has been in large -measure responsible' lor this, Haydn Renaissance, iust as England was Ihe first founiry in which Haydn felt. lhat his music -was fully: understood and appreciated. It iv therefore, entirely fitling that this- book should appear countiy where, as Haydn ollen he had spent the happiest days olhis' But now it will be equally fitting thai the book should be such a success in this country, as il deserves to be.

Libraries will, ot course, have to acquire it, but private persons may boggle at the price' "Truc. one can 1 TO-DAY ai l.ROAL ALBERT HALL. HAROLD HOLT Ltd. announce MYRA HESS 1 B.B.C. SYMPHONY.

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