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24 The Art! THB OBSERVER WEEKEND REVIEW, IS NOVEMBER 1969 An up to date ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL General Manager i John Dcniaou. C.B.B. looih But tba Humes. Tickets from Royal FesUvas Hall Box 7X htmare NEXT WEEK'S CONCERTS FOR WHICH TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE ft Neo-Nazi trouble in Berlin: a moment from 'The Quiller NEW DRAMATIC FLAVOURS Today piano recitae SfA0" 13 4 Mazurtas NOV. STEFAN ASKENASB a op.

1 PA Nicholas Chortmu 111-, li-. 13(8. 10-. 76. Today NEW PH1LHARMONIA puno Concm no i mr, 13 FKUHBECK DC BUR COS mlnor NOV.

BI.UNO LEONARDO CELBA dU 130 pjm Ne PMharmonlo: Ordmtnt Ltd. 25-. M-, 13-. Moo. Mamt Quartet In O.

K.JS7 14 QUAitTETTO IT ALIA NO QEaSriP-59 No' 1 NOV. Schnmni Quartet In A. Op. 41 No. I p.m.

British Broodcostlnt Carptnttoli 10- (reserved). 76 (unreserved) Tues. NEW PHILHARMONIA No 2 ta 15 FRUBBECK DE BURGOS Bfl" NOV Stravtaaat Le Sacra du Printcmpt J.WT. BRUNO LEONARDO GELBER 8 p.m.' Nor Fhllharmonla Orchestra Ltd IS-, 20-. 15-.

10-. Buataauda Passaraglia In minor XVA ORGAN RECITAL PtcWW Toccata in Wed. okuan RttuAL Krntmi and Fusua to minor 16 Back Adufo and Fugue In C. NOV MICHAEL SCHNEIDER oJg Prelude: it, dfr Freude. S.61S B.33 PJn.

bmi Sonaia No. 2 In minor. Ob. 60 5- qndndlag programme) Morart Symnnony No. 14 In A.

tv.rl LONDON MOZART K.114 ,6 PLAYERS 3SSS fOT HARRY BLECH Rich Concerto in minor for NOV. TAMAS VASARV two pianos PETER FRANKL HajdB Symphony No. 94 In (Surprise) Haydn-Mozart Sorter? 15- (all others sold) Part ot this concert wilt Of televised Thnr. StraTtnsky In Three More- LONDON ments 17 PHILHARMONIC Moxart Piano Concerto In minor. FAULKODA N0- ta tendon Philharmonic Orchestra ltd.

10-. 21- (all others aold) Sermbert Ten songs. Indndmi pj SONO RECITAL Der Wanderer; Erikonlti r- Im FrobUng; Der Moseo- 18 HERMANN PREY "fn; to Mond UMt K. an i ass Ten songs, mcluaint rV- KARL ENGEL Rube, meine Scele: Ich m. Wbt dJch: MIt delnca Harold Bolt ltd, blauen Augen Stindcben.

126. 10-. 76, 5- ft Saoattkovlc Quartet No. In F. Op.

73 19 BORODIN Battkom Quartet in minor. Op, vov STRING QUARTET No. 4 Dthw Quartet in minor 8 p.m. British Broadcasttng Corporation 15 10- Ireserred). 76 (onresemd) LPO LSO NPO RPO BOOKING OPENS Mlurlijjj the coming wek for tSie foUowing coocerti la THE 4 ORCHESTRA SERIES ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Tn.

LONDON SYMPHONY TrolM Cast indudei 13 LSO CHORUS Kentm Meyer rniru n.ini Ronald Dowd Rabnnd Herowt DEC. COLIN DAVIS Doaakl Mcbtyn Don Garrard a Cnelaea Open Gnxp Coorai jyorB. ROYAL BatthOTea OrerturCr Eflmont j5 PHILHARMONIC Moan Piano Concerto in O. K.453 ji, PAUL SCHMFTZ Rroeknar Symphony No. 9 in minor ALEXANDER JENNER RoThOm Ut.

AVAILABLE FROM NOV. 15 LONDON SYMPHONY TiJ 16 LSO CHORUS t.RtVM' Ronald Dowd Alexander Yat DEC COLIN DAVIS Doaald Mclntyr Coeiaca Opera Groap Chora YntB, LONDON lUnlal The Messiah PHILHARMONIC RM Woodlaad loaua. P.tm ORCHESTRA AND CHOI Ronald Dowd Richard UKC SIR ADRIAN BOULT 7 p.m. London Philharmonic 10l-' 21 7'6 Orchestra-Ltd. AVAILABLE FROM NOV.

19 eduction by a visiting, mirJdle-vged queen of the West End a good scene, this, with the boy in his outgrown blazer bouncing cockily on her silken bed while the ageing beauty lhowi him how she makes up. But to him the experience is as sterile, posturini and ultimately comic as the theatrical domesticity he detests a defence against reality rather than the heightening it pretends to. Mr Wood leu hit scenes run too long, and leaves characters sitting idly on-stage in a way that makes it difficult for his leads to focus delivery of their speeches. His rage at tha backstage ethos ii immaturely vehement and imperfectly objectified. But he's hit' a harsh, shrill not of blended humour and detestation which is original and memorable.

At the Jeaiinetta Cochrane, tha Traverse production of Boris Vian's The General's Tea Party, which I reviewed at the Harrogate Festival, has come to London with its original cast and Offenbach flavour more or lest intact. Richard Murdoch plays infantile general and Gwen Nelson scores a brilliant double as his domineering mother and a Russian marshal. umcc (WAT 3l( Hi A Tibbie. Office (WAT 3191), London. S.E.1, tod Amu Office (WAT 3191) and usual Aienta.

NPO RPO KENSINGTON, S.W.7 TONIGHT at 7.30 with no ooooiuaong, but with a unique, acridly ambiguous taste in the mouth. At the Nottingham Playhouse, on tha other hand. Chariot Wood's Fill tha Stage with Happy Horn struck me as a signal ctataficMon of his In-. volutod talent The difficulty in Cockade and Drill with their verbal duels between the hard, unreal cliches of military life and the soft, equally unreal ones of civilian domesticity, was to judge which stick was meant to be beating the other. Fill the Stage," coupled with an autobiographical note in the programme, 'gives the clue to his model, and real hate: the theatrical world in which, it seems, he grew up as a boy actor.

Seedy Shakespeareans Albert and Maggie Harris, less-than-grand old troupers, run a seedy theatre club in a provincial town. They dream of Shakespeare and a council subsidy, but their actual repertoire consists of farces with blue titles and ingenues who lose their drawers. Both see compensation for their failed live in their teen-aged son's match on a pedestal to which they can turn in times of trouble or doubt. The types are easily recognisable by thelx wivei or women. Their art collections or even their bric-a-brac give them away just as clearly.

A very common English variety is a combination of pet-and-idol lover. Just as he may worship his so he likes to adore a picture to long as he feels superior to it Maybe this is a usual male attitude, and not a bad guide to a happy art marriage. Al the moment all tastes are catered for in the galleries, though rapes, massacres and beheadings on the grand scale seem a little tcarce. The pet department is always well stocked. Idols nowadays are extremely pure and remote.

A typical purveyor is p-SAVIULE THEATRE Tem nig: THE tough-minded young ex-television directors who moved to Hollywood in the fifties had no intention of churning out comforting mass-produced They wanted to tackle urgent social questions of the kind that they'd been allowed, albeit Briefly, to handle in New York television. Typical tf them was John Frankenheimer, with his highly charged social dramas of family breakdown and delinquency like 'The Young Savages' and 'AH Fall 1 More recently, however, Frankenheimer has abandoned these naturalistic conventions as unsiiited to his evolving purposes which would now seem to be to confront us as directly as possible with our anxieties, to parade them before us on the screen. Technically, "The Manohurian Seven Days in May' and his new film Seconds (Plaza) are thrillers indebted to early Fritz Lang and the best of Hitchcock. From three ingeniously fantastic novels, Frankenheimer has forged genuine contemporary nightmares. It is not just that real dreams occur in the pictures or that the central characters constantly question the reality of what is happening around them; the spectator himself feels he has dreamed these movies.

The protagonist of Seconds is a middle-aged New York banker who is contacted by a clandestine organisation offering him, indeed virtually forcing on him, the chance to be transformed by major surgery into a new man, ready to embark upon the life of his dreams. This Faust-aid post for the discontented rich is perfect in every detail wills are prepared, a Cadaver Procure-ment Section places substitute corpses in mock accidents, true vocations are determined through truth drugs, suitable companions are provided during the period of adjustment. The film's wrinkled, grey-fcaired, paunchy banker is recreated in the image of Rock Hudson, that all-American male and top romantic box-office attraction, and settled in California as a fashionable young painter. Of course, he doesn't take to the new life and though this is something of a disappointment to his sponsors they know how to deal with such problems. Bizarre and mundane Neither in theme nor plot is Seconds particularly orginal the changes have been rung on this subject from the Cumaean Sibyl through the variations on the Faust legend to Dorian Gray, Vice and a whole raft of science fiction.

What matters is the skill with which Frankenheimer so entertainingly and disturbingly relates these perennial concerns to the way we Uve now. In this he receives formidable assistance from the stunning black-and-white photography of James Wong Howe that can make the most everyday things look bizarre and the most bizarre things appear mundane. At one extreme are the extraordinary optical i effects in which-faces are distorted Kke Bacon portraits. (If this film were ever shown on television there would have to be a permanent sign telling viewers not to adjust their sets.) At the other is the journey that the banker makes across New York to his mysterious rendezvous from his modish open-plan office, via a steamy cleaner's shop and austere meat market to the warehouse which conceals the discreetly-appointed secret headquarters. This LONDON PIANOFORTE SERIES MARIO MIRANDA WICMORE HALL.

TODAY, at 1 n-w DmI.U. ro i Tlckeut 10-, 7-, 4-. Hail (rora2.30 p.m. Management: mtta i uus. Pianoforte Recital by HILARY COATES WIGMORE HALL.

TOMORROW, at 7.J0 Haydn. Mendeksohn. Chopin. Rachmanlnov, 10-. II; Al: Hall (WEL 2141.) Ajenta A IBBS TILLETT Ltd.

124 Wiamore W.l. TODAY, SUNDAY, 7.30 pjn. ODEON THEATRE, SWISS COTTAGE (12 minutes Irom Piccadilly Circus) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA A Pucal Overture Hoist Cello Concerto Blsar Scheherazade Rlmsky-Korsaiov SIR ADRIAN BOULT AMARYLLIS FLEMING SI: 15-. Box Office (PRI. 3424) (Good parking fadtltlei) WILFRID VAN WYCK LTD 80 WIGMORE STREET, W.l.

(WEL 0218) GARY TOWLEN piano THREE SCHUMANN RECITALS WIGMORE HALL. EVENINGS at 7J0 Tuesday next: Paplllons, Op. 2: Sonata No. Humoresque. Op.

20. November 22 Abrgg Variations. Sonata No. 1 Davidsbundlerlanze, Op. November 29 i Intermezzi.

Op. 4 Sonata No. 2: CamavRl, Op. 9. 10-.

7-, 4.. WEL. 2141 and Agenta. Recital by the Argentinian Pianltt WILFREDO VOGUET nti. NEXT at 7.30.

WIGMORE HALL Works by Haydn, Bach, Debussy. Glnastera. 10-. 7-, 4-. WEL.

2141 and Agenta. Recital by Japan's foremost violinist. TOSHIYA ETO ERNEST LUSH piano SAT. NEXT, a( 3. WIGMORE HALL 10-, II: AI-.

WEL. 2141 and Agents. WIGMORE HALL. Wednesday nelt, 7J ANK REINDERS SOPRANO. Piano GEZA FRXD Brahms.

Strauss. Poulenc. Flothula, etc. 10-. 7-.

4-. Hall (Wei 2141). agenta. Choveani Saliords. RadhiU.

Surrey. GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA CARL FLESCH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION WIGMORE HALL Wiamore Street, W.l. 2.00 p.m. WEDNESDAY Km NOVEMBER Panel of Judges Allen Perciva! Sir Adrian Boult Manoug Pariklan Dame Rutb Rallton Max Rostai Aeeompanlst Peter Petunias ADMISSION FREE commonplace excursion takes on the dimensions of a descent into the underworld. Extremely well conceived, too, is the nature of the organisation, which is like those occult systems in the stories of Jorge Luis Borges that, may be.

real or mere projections of our fantasies. This one has all the lineaments of an industrial corporation or a vast charity foundation that has fallen into the hands of benevolent maniacs. The outstanding parts of the film are the first 50 minutes and the last 15; the final climax is as grisly as it js inexorable. There's a sag in the middle, especially during an orgy in California that is ludicrous in a way surely not intended. This interlude, however, is enlivened by the striking presence of Salome Jens, whose performance, like those of the rest of the cast, is splendid.

There are two main tracks on which the spy thriller runs, and when shortly they reach the terminus The Qoiller Memorandum (Odeon, Leicester Square) will be waiting in the pending-tray. An uneasy mixture of double-cross and double-0, of Le Carre' and. Carry-On, the film cant make up its mind whether it wants to be a post-Bond joke or get its head down and play the Berlin Wall game in the real mud of political intrigue. Shameless suspense Quiller (George Segal) is an agent brought In by the head of Berlin Control (Alec Guinness) to smoke out a- nest of neo-Nazis who've already accounted for two earlier investigators. The script is a veritable anthology of spy clicMs which are treated with a plodding reverence by director Michael Anderson presumably out of respect for their distinguished compiler, Harold Pinter.

Such suspense as it has is shamelessly contrived and depends almost entirely upon the characters conducting themselves with rare stupidity. In the picture's advertising, Quiller is described, as 'the kind of man you can underestimate; In fact it would be impossible to underestimate the intelligence of this man, compared with whom the Men from UNCLE would almost pass as Fellows from AU Souls. Quiller's idiocy, however, is. matched by his colleagues and surpassed by his neo-Nazi quarries. God knows what dangerous conclusions they might draw from this down in Hesse this week.

Twenty Honrs (Academy Club) is about the changing life of an Hungarian village since the war. It takes the form of an investigation by a Budapest journalist for a series of articles he'll probably never write. The unfamiliarity of the milieu and of the language, together with the rapid cutting between times and places, make it a difficult picture to follow at first. But this soon passes and what initially you failed to. grasp takes a firm grip on you.

Eventually everything falls into place some of it perhaps a little too neatly. The film's real strength lies in its' refusal to dodge the complexity of the issues it raises, its eschewing of caricature, and its success in communicating the conflicts that arise between fundamentally good men. ACADEMY CINEMA ONE (OER. 2981) THE ROUND-UP (X) 5.55, 9.25 A Nina Days or One Year (U) 4.0, 7.30 ACADEMY CINEMA TWO (LST WKS) A THOUSAND CLOWNS (XI) THE RAIL-RODDER (U) Pgs 5.30, 8.10. ACADEMY CLUB (OER.

8819) Until Dee. 8 Zoltah Fabrl's TWENTY HOURS. BERKELEY. MUS 8150. THE GROUP 00.

RefteeUou on Lore (U). 4:30. 7.40. CARLTON. Whl 3711.

GEORGY GIRL (X) James Mason. Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave. Progs Today: 3.30, 5.55, 8.20. CURZON. ORO 3737.

Fully air conditioned. Last weeks. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Bur. ton WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF7 (X) 3.00, 5.30. 8.10.

CAMEO MOULIN. Ot. Windmill St. Glrtt I Oirls I I Girls I Luscious delicious will send you delirious. THE NAKED WORLD OF HARRISON MARKS (A) Also Sensational I Breathtaking I WOMEN OF THE WORLD (X) Color.

From 2,15. CAMEO POLY Lan. 1744 Last Weeks. reason's International award winning BALTHAZAR (A) 5.35, 8.55. Le Baron dt L'Ectaet 4 pjn.

7.20. CAMEO ROYAL WHI. 6915 ONIBABA (London) A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS (X) 2.45, 5.20, 8. CAMEO VICTORIA Peter Sellers. Peter Toole WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT (X).

CASINO CINERAMA. (Oer 6877.) NOW I KHARTOUM (U). Today at 4.30 7.50. Weekdays 2.30 A 7.45, Sets, at 2.0. 5.20.

8.40 and 11.55 p.m. Alt Bookable. CLASSIC CrNKMAS WEL. ,00818836,. BAKER ST.

Marlon Brando. THE YOUNG LIONS (a) Progs, 7.40 CHELSEA. Mondo Cane (x) sips tba ataak, trom tha World. Progs. 4.35.

6.45. 8.55. HAMPSTEAD. Albert Finney, TOM ONES (I) 4.0, 8.20. Mellna Mcrcourl.

NEVER ON SUNDAY 00 6.25. NOTTtNG Hit Gt. Jack LeTnnTOn. THE APARTMENT () Progs. 4.0.

6.10,1.!35. PICCADILLY. CIRCUS, Michael Ctlne, ALFTE (I) 2.05, 5.20, 8.35. Lots Goddesses (I) 12.55. 4.05.

7.20. WATERLOO Stn. Dirk Bogarde, THE SERVANT (x) 1.20. 5.0, 8.40 Kirk Douglas. Man Without a Star (a) 3.20, 7.0.

COLISEUM CINERAMA. Tem 3161. THE BIBLE la The Begin nlna (U) In D-150. Colour- by Tecbnicolor. Today at 3.30 and 7.30, Weekdays at 3.30 and 8.0.

All Seats Bookable at Box-Offlee Agents. COLUMBIA. Reg 5414, GOAL I World COS 1966 (U) In Technicolor and Technlacope Pro grammes 3.30. 5.20. 8.5.

Doors at 3,0. CONTINENT ALE, MUS 4193. FOUR KINDS OF LOVE (X). Pierrot La Fon (X). Com 4.50.

DOMINION. Tott Ct. Rd. Mus 2176, 2709. Julie Andrews.

Christopher Plummer in Rodgers Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC (U) In Todd-AO Col. Sep. Perfs. at 4.30, 8.0. Wkdys 2.30.

8.0. All bookable EMPIRE. Ger DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (A) Today 3.0 and 7.30. Wdays 2.30 7.30 ALL SEATS BOOKABLE. Licensed Bar! EVERYMAN.

Hampstead 1525, ort the beiten track. Today Bunuel's VIRID1ANA (X). Monday Oaudia Cardinal! in VlteonU'i OF A THOUSAND DEUCHTS (X). Tlcketa from Royal Festival Hall Box LSO LPO ROYAL ALBERT HALL AgsaMtMt mam The idea, admirable enough, seems to be that it's those who hold no preconcdived attitude to Africa, or to life, who get along best in bol4L But the thought gets obscured by its which a that reality gets misrepresented as soon as it's made a subject of representation. The target here ts patently television, yet, oddly, it's never mentioned.

It's hard to repress suspicion that "The Little Mrs Foster Show started life as a TV play on the evils of TV, which TV rejected. The point is even more muffled by the fact that the conversion of horror to entertainment is the basis of Livings's own best comic sequences. There's irony, but his art, inescapably, lies in the mixture. With stronger structural control, the hovering theme might have clarified itself out of the parooic emulsion. As it is, Little Mrs'Foster tends you out WE ALL fall in love with a bit of art from time to time.

Buying it, though; is a form of marriage. Henceforward we have got to live with it, and here the extraordinarily different needs of different individuals become clear. Some men really only want a pet an unobtrusive, vaguely ornamental little character which can be flourished or pushed out of sight at will something they can pat and patronise, something which makes them feel bigger; A tiny Renoir is perfect. Other men need to be dominated. They like to feel assaulted, by some vigorous personality and dwarfed by sheer size" or panache.

(Seicento-fans all have a streak of masochism they bloom in the (hade of a gigantic Caravaggiesque martyrdom.) The third category is that of the idealists. They crave for something to worship, a little chip of perfectitfa London's ringing with praise" Evening Newt for JOE ORTON'S "A story as Ingenious aa it is One of the best comeditti to come to London for a long time" Financial Times "Outrageously funny. A huge success" Guardian "Precisely and brilliantly successful The Tribune CRITERION WHI LAST WEEKS! GLYNIS KEITH I JOHNS MICHELL I Must end 26 Nov. 1 Prior to American Tour Collected Manaaer FRANK J. MUNDY ika iretenea of tLM.

Tba Queen and H.R.H. Tha Dldta ot Edmbmli Tuesday, November 22nd, at 8 pjo. ROYAL CONCERT CONST ANTIN SLLVESTRI JOHN OGDON ELIZABETH HARWOOD BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Treorchy Male Choir Kneller Hall Trompeters Worxt by Vauchan Wllllama RacbmanlnoT: Britten; OUlre; Eneaco. TVateu SI-. 76, 106,.

W-. 21-. 10-, 42l at H4U and Agenta. I'VE a friend who maintains that the corning imperialism will be one of savour. As world population explodes, ever-vaster areas of the globe will be given to massultiva-tion of basic, tasteless foods like rice, flour, soybeans and giant Califoraian tomatoes.

They'll depend increasingly on the few territories which originate sharp, genuine flavours onions, anchovies, gherkins and blue cheese. At the moment, tho theatre holds much the same power over the entertainment world. Because it's still small and hand-made, it can distil new pungencies instantly seized for packaging and dilution by the bulk-producers of films and television. This is why, last week, trainloads of critics and impresarios could be observed debouching furtively on Liverpool and Nottingham for the premieres of Henry Lwings'a 'Little Mrs Foster Show and Charles Wood's 'Fill the Stage with Happy It is not yet clear whether either author can shape a play satisfactorily enough to justify. talk of a New Wave of British drama.

But there's, no doubt that both have brought into the theatre flavours as novel and sharply distinctive as any since the war. The Liverpool Playhouse production of little Mrs Foster leaves it unsettled whether Henry Livings can become more than a taste. The lady of the title has had a brief, not specially grievous brush with the upheavals of an African State reminiscent of Nigeria or the Congo. Returning to England, she's grabbed as heroine of a travelling circus of horror, along the lines of those exhibitions of Japanese war atrocities this is' what we, the audience, are seeing. Ushered by bingo, songs and heavy hints of rape and torture, she trips on for a confrontation with a bawdy, unshaven Cockney mercenary she met in the jungle, and subsequently married.

Clownish sufferer He, one of Livings's Kilroy-figures of clownish, innocent original sin, really suffered in Africa after hellish months in a detention-camp, his gangrened leg was. amputated by a drunken European surgeon. But he bears no malice in fact, he has brought back a beautiful Negress who. pushes has wheel-chair at his wedding. GALA ROYAL.

AMB 2345. SHADOW OF evil (U). Tt ravHclbla Gladiator (U). GOLDERS GREEN IONIC Sn 1724 GOAL I WORLD CUP 1966 Sun, 4.3378.5. Wk.

1.40. 5.5. 8.15. Iaa Carmichael Hugh Griffith HIDE AND SEEK (U). INT.

FILM TR. Bay 2345. LILITH OO Tba Utile Oat (A) Progs. 430, 7.30. LFJC.

SO. TH. Soathwatt To Sonora (A). Technicolor Prog comm. 3.20, 5.50.

8.20. LONDON PAVILION. Pice. Cir. OER 2982.

William Hoi den and Richard: Widmark In ALVAREZ KELLY (A) Colour. Today Programmes at 2.50, 5,30 and 8,20. METROPOLE. George Petmatd, lafflel Mason. Ursula Andreas in The Bin Max (A), sep-' araie performances 4.1 8,0.

weekdays 2.30. 8:0. Bookable. Vic 0208, 5500. 4673.

ODEON, Havrnarkel (WHI S738) Rod Stelger in THE PAWNBROKER (X). Separate per. formancca 4.30, 8.0. Wkdys, 2.30. 8.0, Sat.

at 2.0, 5.1S. 8.15. AU scats bookable. ODEON, Lcfc. So.

Tht QaOler Memorandna (A) Tech. Programmes 3.10. 5.45, 8.15, PARIS PULLMAN. Drayton Gdns. Pre S89S, If Car MtanMr (JO Una Faaaia Marls (jo Both sub-sitled.

PLAZA Rock Hudson In SECONDS (X). Today Progs 2.30, 5.0, 7.40. Weekday Progs 12.45. 3.10. Also Sat II p.m PRINCE CHARLES, Lelc.

Sq. GER 8181. tbeVox (U). I Loss in Mood Man (U) Progs. 2.00 3.45 6.10 8.40.

RIAtTO. Oct Audrey Henbum, Pcter Sjf1- MILLION (U). Pres. 3.10. 5.35.

S.0J. UJgt Ger 5t Taylor. Trevor Howard TH UOUlDATOR (A). Prot today 2.30. 4.20- o30, S.40.

FAIR LADY (U) Technicolor A Panavislon. Programmet Today tt J.O A 7,0, Doort 2.J0. Weekday pro. grammes 12.50. 4.20.

7.50. Doors 12 30 Stalls 7d. 10-. Clrcl6 15-. NotJ bookable: WARNER Ger 3423 Tony Curtis Vima Llsi George C.

Scott NOT WITH MY WIFE. YOU.DONT tt) Prort-: 3.15 5.20 8pm WINDMILL CTNEMA. GER. 7413. Julio Christie.

DARLING (x); 4.0, 6.05, 8.30. CLASSIFIED THEATRE GUIDE page ll ART GALLERIES EXHIBITIONS page 23 SUNDAY DECEMBER 11 at 70 Victor Hochbanser presWu IGOR OISTRAKH Evenings 8.0 Mttlnte Saturday 3.0 The Sensational MERGE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY Three New Ballets Musical Director JOHN CAGE SAT. NOV. 2 (i 3 p.m. SMCAl JOHN.

CAGE COtKUT A UCTUM LIMITED SEASON NOV. 23 to DEC 3 Prkei 76 to 25. BOOK NOW- Programme will include 2 concertoi by SHOSTAKOVICH BEETHOVEN RPO Walter Susskind Tke: h. 106, ISh. Zlh.

UK ON ALB NOW (KEN. 8212) ft Aaenu VICTORIA ALBERT MUSEUM makers Max Bill at the Hanover Gallery. This 58-year-old Swiss, iutkulato, intelligent, many-talented, is well known on the Continent for his pure abstracts, and I have often admired small samples in mixea shows. But I found to my dhsgrin that I could get almost no reaction from this exhibition. The dJagrammatic paintings teem unable to make the mysterious leap from geometry into art (a tiny canvas upstairs in which blanched greys and blue triangles set up a lyrical tension is a notable exception) and the sculptures are oddly inert and anonymous.

A huge piece of granka is folded like a pancake; but it hat neither the wit of' inappropriattnest nor the volume-building logic of a sea-shell. The 'endless' curved sculptures seem heavy-handed demonstrations of a mental concept rather than things in themselves: I enjoyed most the small metal pieces. These works have all the qualities your parents admire in a girl; but I wouldn't want to marry one. 4011 (U) EVENING NEWS NEW STATESMAN film THE RAILRODDEK (U) Th Park Lane Group Concerts VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE Trio fiat (or poo MOZART Sonau (or via. pno.

(Arpettfonn) SCHUBERT Three plena (or eqlo clar STRAVINSKY Trto In Bat (or cello and ono (arr. from Septet) BEETHOVEN Tlckeu! 1W-. 5-at door from 6.15. THE ACADEMY CINEMA ONE Oxford Street GER 2981 MIKLOS JANCSO'S Hungarian masterpiece THE ROUND-UP The best Im showing In Londoa A ftanning talent OBSERVER "The most extraordinary and gripping (Him) to come to at from a new director in a very long time TIMES I think thii look auspiciously like a masterpiece EVENING NEWS "Totally original and totally absorbing EVENING STANDARD BANQUETING HOUSE, WHITEHALL, NEXT TUESDAY at 7J0 p.m. SOHO MUSIC SOCIETY presents SOHO CONCERTANTE NICHOLAS JACKSON (Leader Hush -Maauiie) (Director) BACH 1 Suite No.

In D. HANDEL i Canute, Saeriat Tdlua (Solola Helen Oelmar). HAYDN praan Omcato. in C. C.F.E.

BACH Fanfare. LA WES "Masque ot Peace" (1634) (Soloists Doreen Price Maureen Keetch). ROSEINGRAVE 1 Arise; Shlno (1713). Tickeo: 25-. 20-.

IS. From Oiappcll U.St, W.l. (MAY 7600) 4 Usual Aienta. or at Door from 6.45 p.m. Management: HELEN JENNINGS CONCERT AGENCY B3RCKMAN CONCERT SOCIETY LTD.

(Musical Director Geralnt lanes) Wlgfrore Hair Thursday Belt at 7.30 ALBERNI STRING QUARTET GWENNETH PRYOR piano Moxan i ptaao Qnariet in fat. Hayda Unfuusbad Lark anarteca. tlcktu SI; 10e. (rom Christopher Hunt Ltd. 11 Strailord Villaj'.

NWJ. or from Wiamore Hall (WEL 2141). LED THE ACADEMY CINEMA TWO Oxford Street GER 5129 LAST WEEKS JASON ROBARDS BARBARA HARRIS in a brilliantly amusing satirical comedy A THOUSAND CLOWNS COCHRANE THEATRE, 9othampoti How, London, W.CI. (1 mlniii5 from Rolboni Tube. Buses 68.

77, 188 tad 196) 10.30 p.m. SHOWS Fit 18th Nov. THE GRAHAM COLLYER SEPTET Sat. 19th Nov. JOHN RENBOURN First London solo concert.

Fri. 25th Nov. JEAN RITCHIE The Mm Lady of Polk. Sat. 26th Nov.

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