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6 THE OBSEKVEK, SUjnDAY, AUGUST; 1, 1954 At the Theatre At the Films Radio Music Proms 3 SHERRY PARTY RITORNELLO By C. A. LEJEUNE Bridge By TERENCE REESE rpHE four players who have won the last two ladies' trials, Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Fleming, Lady Rhodes and Mrs.

Lester, have been selected to play at Montreux, together with Mrs. Macdonnell and Miss Coen. This was the hand from the latest trial whose bidding I described last By IVOR BROWN Did you know? Did you know that Talc de Coty contains a very fine deodorant The most graceful solution to an intimate problem. Keeps you fresh, fragrantly, even where the body is most apt to perspire. Cool.

Fine. Exquisite. Talc de Coty gives you a choice of five enchanting perfumes. 46. week 74 HPHERE had to be a screen sequel to "The Li ttle World of Don Camillo." It was plain that a sparring part-nership -as happy, as that of Fernandel as the militant1- parish 0 A 10 7 4 2 QJ10952 OJ8 5 83 10 8 7 4 0 963 Q105 4963 the type.

Strictly speaking, it is a northern rather than a western. The period is 1896, when' the gold-rush to the Klondike poured thousands of hard men into a territory hitherto patrolled by' a single mounted The prospectors have to be on something more than local bear- meat. A restless rancher from Wyoming, (James Stewart) decides' to drive and' ship his herd pf cattle all the way to' Dawson City, near the Arctic On the long journey he learns a lot of things; one of them the vanity of for ever hankerin' after a. far country. Mr.

Stewart's artfully easy-seeming performance has its usual beneficial effect of putting others at their ease. "The backgrounds are beautiful, with their cold sweeps of pewter sky and the tender spears of green young trees breaking through the snow in spring. AK priest, and Gino Communist mayor dissolved 1 after" a Cervi as the not be By LIONEL HALE T'HE B.B.C., in its avuncular way, has been nursing, coaching, and in general bringing out Mr. Johnny Morris, a comedian with a style of his own; and this past week it has been allowing him a five-minuto nightly session, called Johnny's Jaunt. Here, the sprightly and observant Mr.

Morris describes a journey from Manchester to the sea in a series of wayward, wayside bulletins! I do not know whether it is the general absence of comic ideas in the B.B.C. that makes this particular idea seem felicitous and funny. Mr. Morris plays himself and (with his talent for mimicry) two imaginary companions: he adds the voices of bus conductors and such other Samaritans, good or bad, as he meets in the afflictions of travel. Off they wander, the three friends; citified' tvpes among green pastures.

The quick, fugitive style of Mr. Morris has a lively likeability; he suddenly catches your fancy with a story of fish who, when you feed them' cherries, eat them gratefully and spit but the stones: you find yourself looking forward to next evening's instalment, and even wondering about the fish. I do not hold that Johnny's Jaunt provides even footnotes to a guide-book of the country traversed, and I should like, perhaps, something longer and more ambitious from Mr. Morris, in this vein. But then I should like more of Mr.

Morris, on this showing, altogether. single film. The Return of 'Don by 1 the 'Camillo' (Rialto), made OKQ742 AK8 South dealt at game to North-South, and this was the bidding in Room 1 SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 2 4 4 NT No 6 0 No No No Declarer wins the Spade lead and is the play's wedding-bells. With so little sun outside the theatre this year, we can surely do with some radiance of the arts within. TPHERE is a most moving situation A in The Wooden Dish (Phoenix), a situation which could have its poignant parallel anywhere arid not only deep in the heart of Texas," where the dramatist, Edmund Morris, has placed it.

Old Dennison, aged about eighty, has been quartered on his daughter-in-law, Clara, for a score of years; he has a continual cough; he is clumsy, he breaks the plates, and he has to be fed out of a wooden dish; he is also a dreary old bore, gasping out a ceaseless fund of stories about the boys of the old brigade. No wonder that in a cramped, penurious home Clara is driven to desperation and wants to get Pop out of her kitchen and into a commercialised Haven for the Old." But Pop knows this to be in fact a shabby kennel for the dying dogs; he is determined not to budge or to accept the implication of moribundity. Clara has got a weak husband on her side as well as a plausible case for her hard decision. So far, the issue is finely balanced. Our sympathies are level.

But then Mr. Morris has upset his neat dramatic poise by making Clara wanton as well as exasperated. She is ready to betray her husband with a commonplace lodger, and the squalor of this episode, in which' there is no real affection, naturaily turns us against Clara and so changes the piece for a while into one of those sex-sodden dramas of lust in a far from cold climate which are so familiar and olten so tedious. "PORTUNATELV Mr. Morris TN Them (London Pavilion) science TALC de By ERIC BLOM CO long ago had I learnt that the opening night of 'the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is matter for a sports reporter rather than a music critic that I walked into this year's only by accident When the season's prospectus was sent, to me I did- not so much as glance at the first programme, but in search of.

musical interest turned to the pages' that follow it; and since the present season marks the diamond jubilee of a venture started in 1895, I felt that what might turn out an unruly celebration with some light incidental music thrown in should be an excellent thing to avoid. However, 1 disr covered on the very afternoon of the first concert that it was one of quite considerable musical attraction. So, finding it quite difficult to think of anything better to do, I went td So much by way of apology, and now for justification'. There was-a crowd, but not a vast one. In fact there were even some empty seats in the stalls always a good sign, artistically.

Those who did come may not all have been more interested in the music than in the event, but, not being madly in love with the most typical promenaders and. haying therefore expected the worst on an opening night or rather the second-worst, since it is the last night which rumour tells me usually turns into a horrifying jambore1-I am bound to say that nothing untoward occurred if that is the word. True. I cannot feel that balloons are strictly necessary at a concert, that it is really very great fun to see paper streamers thrown across the grand, piano and that the attendant who opens its lid for the soloist can remain wholly unembarrassed on being greeted with a volley of. though he may be as good an artist as any in his way; but the cheers; were legitimate, considering, and so perhaps were the shrill music-hall whistlings with, which our express welcome arid approval.

If first Prom night is not more of a riot, musicians need not complain. But please, this was enough of a feast. "PHE music, conducted by Sir -1- Malcolm Sargent, was more than enough. The first item, the Wood arrangement of the Trumpet Voluntary by whomsoever1 and even the last. Ravel's Bolero," may have been compromises with popular taste; but if so, that taste has vastly improved.

Nothing else looked like a concession. Eileen Joyce did not, for instance, chanae her clothes be fortunate to drop the trumps in three rounds. A second round Pf Spades is i drawn, and when East follows it is established that West has exactly three cards in Hearts and Clubs. How should South continue so as to take i care of all possibilities It is apparent that, as the cards lie. South can come to his twelfth trick by leading out Ace, King and another Club.

If it turns out, however, that East started with aVQlOxx, he will return a fourth Club and South will be left with a Heart loser. The safe play is A followed by a small Club. If East wins and returns a Club to which West does not follow, then it will be known that East has Fragrant guardian of your personal freshness same director, Julien gives us a further set of anecdotes about this redoubtable couple. Most of them are based on material from Guareschi's "Don Camillo andlthe Prodigal Son." A few owe. their origin to the earlier A number of touches can clearly.be attributed to the director's own, imagination.

Th whole collection is loosely-bundled-together. It begins where the first film stopped, has no definite ending, and leaves us with a strong hint of instalments yet to corned The new film is more ragged in appearance than The Little World of Don Camillo." Presumably it has been out My own inclination would be to cut it even more, I should take out whole-episode with the castor oil. I should think twice before Jeavingi in that dubiously, theatrical sequence suggesting the Stations; of the Cross. like the rfilrh as very much that I want be able to recommend it without reserve. I want to be able lo say, as nearly that this isisomething 'extraordinarily gentle, -funny and humane.

The "acting, is superb. Every time I see Fernandel I marvel at his, range still more. Has there ever more touching comedian on the screen, Charlie Chaplin? If you should chance to be a connoisseur of westerns you might care to take, a look at The Far Country (Odeon, Leicester: Square). Although not "up in class, this" is a very fair example of fiction threatens' us with a race of giant ants, evolved from a colony' of desert -ants by a freak pf radiation from atomic-bomb test. These jpop-eyed, furry creatures stand about ten foot in their- socks.

They are carnivorous in habit, although they have a sweet' tooth, too. -They communicate with each other by means of shrill', whistling note, not unlike a badly adjusted TV tuning signal. Thanks to the able advice of myrmecologist Edmund Gwenn (what" big words' they in Hollywood the first nest is- discovered and destroyed. But two queen ants have taken wing and fled. The myrmecologist warns a horrified meeting of V.I.P.S that unless these fugitives and their multifold broods are found and wiped out, mankind extinct within a year.

Troops are called in, and the hunt is Dr. Gwenn and his scientist daughter Joan Weldon) are in charge. Dr. Weldon is strikingly handsome for a myrmecologist, a fact not unnoticed by the young agent (James- Arness) sent to help the troopers by the F.B.I. But this busy has no time to waste on BYRON regarded The Duenna, now revived at the Westminster Theatre, as "far better than that St Giles's lampoon, The Beggar's Hazlitt called Sheridan's operetta a perfect work of art," with its songs the best ever written, except those in "The Beggar's Opera." A generation ago the latter took the general fancy with an -unparalleled success and "The Duenna," following Gay's piece at Hammersmith, had only 141 performances compared with of the latter.

A street -song of 1775 complained that Sheridan's piece was sad stuff," but victorious. The world's run mad agen-a from morn to night, its whole delight to cry up 'The King George HI was one of its repeated patrons and that was before he lost his wits. The street-song called it Master Sherry's strange Success," but could not question the fact of a hit." Now Sheridan's turn seems to have come again. The Bristol Vic" did well with it and their version has come to town with a fair chance of making us run mad agen-a." HPHE piece has a new flavour abont it, more Sherry-type, perhaps, than authentic Sherry. Julian Slade's music has a vein of melody suggesting the nineteenth, or even the twentieth, rather than the eighteenth century.

One imagines a Savoyard company as the best projectors of its gaiety "find sentiment in song. The tunes are easy and infectious and the audience went out with an eagerness to hum a refrain. The voices available in the company are not remarkable, but Jane Wenham as Donna Louisa manages her numbers with unsuspected vocal power as well as with the skill and charm she has displayed in straight classics. The title-part is played by Joyce Carey with a.gay touch of the grotesque: it is a pity that, apart from her admirable share in the Library Scene, this mature intriguer is seen too little. Gerald Cross, as the gull Mendoza.

plays very neatly both with her and in all his misfortunes, while David Bird, as the choleric papa, plagued with an obstinate daughter, booms and bridles richly and almost persuades os that he is a songster. Victor Maddern, as the servant, Lopez, is excellent in the dry commentary on madness in masters. 'T'HE production by Lionel Harris includes Harlequin, Columbine, and Spanish Dancers, and goes castanetting gaily through the absurdities of the plot and the piazzas of Seville, which Tom Ling-wood has put on the scenic map with ingenious and attractive economy. The orchestral production is a lavish one for the Westminster, and it is unlikely that the old street-song's complaint that Those sly curs, the managers, keep pocketing the money;" can now be justified by huge profits at this address. But Mr.

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1 recall being unable to hold' the book straight. It was an achievement of the adapter, Mr: Peter Watts, to rival it, but then it was also notable to catch the wry, Whitehall scenes which Mr. Balchin wrote so unmercifully. It was an excellent re-creation of an excellence. If this, based on so good an original, seemed fresh, there was only the jaded in an original radio melodrama, High Tension.

Miss Joan Miller produced a good, redheaded voice; but her sultriness came near to following the script over that razor-edge that is poised over the abysm of the laughable. In programmes like Close-up of Sir Michael Balcon, it does not seem to me that the method is likely, to produce anything but a glossy portrait. The intimates, associates, and fellow-film-makers of this admirable man are likely to leave out any of those dear, distinguishing marks (or warts) essential to any good painting A faint note of piety it is inevitable creeps in. wA 1 wA love. It moves fast and is superbly GARDENING BLUE GERANIUM.

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Pop Dennison is, a finely drawn character of wearied and wearisome senility, and Wilfrid Lawson gives a performance of great power and pathos as the wheezy old nuisance who asserts his right to remain in a household that has too long endured the affliction of his company. Joan Miller as the much-vexed Clara would have had a much easier task if the sex-betrayal had not intervened to make us despise the woman instead of pitying her. As it is, she does notably well and shares with Mr. Lawson the honour of making the piece worth seeing for its rendering of an acute domestic dilemma that is certainly not limited to smalltown life in Texas. Alan Tilvern.

Gordon Tanner. Bessie Love and Dorothy Bromiley make plausible members or neighbours of the household where Pop gasps and grumblesjn his tedious anecdotage. First Nights To-morrow: Hannibal's Way (Artv Cambridge). Tuesday Relations are Best Apart (Garrickt. Wednesday: Sabrina Fair (Palace) Reprise Second Edition New Watergate).

Thursday Salad Day; (Vaudeville! Nocturne (Hovcndcn Theatre). mm BUSINESS OFFER tween the movements of Prokofiev's major piano Concerto, a work that would itself have been unthink-. able at an opening night years ago (and I do not mean merely because it would not then have been written). Miss Jovce laved it extremely well; suiy. ocience ncuon aaatcts ot fourteen or fifteen will be furipus about that Certificate.

From Tthe opening shot of Susan Slept- Here (Gaumont), -the first twang of, song over the credit-titles, know we are in for; one of those- brightly coloured bebop growths that spring up in Hollywood almost overnight, as freely as toadstoolsjiri a damp August garden. A' Hollywood scriptwriter '(Dick Powell), in' search of material for a serious story about juvenile agrees to put up a vagrant girl (Debbie Reynolds) for-Christmas. The savage blonde with harlequin glasses (Anne Francis) who intends marry him. thinks poorly of the arrangement. The thinks poorly of the savage blonde.

The outcome of their rivalry is not for, a moment in doubt, although the', development finds time for- the usual complications. What merit the film has lies' in Miss Reynolds's eyed charm: Otherwise it strikes me as ranking pretty, high amongst the year's ynlgarer features. and that dead-sure efficiency of tiers which- sometimes makes one. almost wish for a wronK note, is exactly what it needs. The B.B.C.

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So much for annuals sown out of doors, but people with the advantage of even a tiny greenhouse mayhave a great deal of fun with a few pols of half-hardy annuals sown They bring a summer look info winter. What could be more summer-like than' a pot crammed, with either in separate colours or, in that gay mixture we so often see bordering a cottage-garden path? Nemesia will give this reward by 1 Christmas or New Year's Day. Ten-week stocks are well known as a winter pot-plant. People who are successful with mignonette in the open can grow this delightful, old-fashioned. sweet-scented friend, which always looks to me like a miniature, forest of spires of dust-deyils.

It needs a firm soil, and some lime, but sometimes will elude the skill of the most experienced gardener, though it will often nourish in the little plot of the most inexperienced child. It seems to be one of those inexplicably tricky things with minds and prejudices of their own. I am assured on good authority that -the beautiful Morning Glory. Heavenly Blue, if sown now, will produce its wealth of blue trumpets indoors" in mid-winter. Trained up some tall bamboo sticks, twiddling in and out, with its delicate tendrils and its pale, heart-shaped leaves and its amazing azure flowers, it would indeed offer a wonderful summer-sky reminder on a January day.

COME of Festival Ballet's pro- ductions are very good: others are less good. Prince Igor has always been one of their best; partly because of BeriosofTs vigorous and accurate production, partly because Dolin's corps de ballet dances with such spirit. Now, in Istvan Rabovsky, they have a superb Chief Warrior. Besides leaping and spinning magnificently, he shows us the whole point and gaiety of being a bandit. Casse-Noisette starts badly with a scarlet sateen crinoline, and ends worse with Krassovska's rose-pink tights.

There is some pretty dancing from John Gilpin and Belinda Wright in the middle, but I thought she was acting rather pursed-up and ladylike. Keith Beckett was splendid as a Christmas present. If the four exquisite and immortal ballerinas of Perrot's Pas de quatrc. perpetuated in Chalon's print, are to be made funny, let them fall about the stage, reveal red flannel drawers, and whack each other with sausages. As I say, some of Festival Ballet's productions are very good: others are less good.

Perhaps this comes from having divided aims. Lady Tree once remarked rightly, Ye cannot serve Cod and Salmon." Richard Buckle. The Unequalled Performance of (giMiiign SPECIAL great ingenuity ana oriiiianuy out never superficially scored. Least good was Strauss's "Till of the important and admittedly very dangerous horn leads were fluffed and there were a number of ragged chords. Some points, notably the realistic strangled sound at the hanging of Till, went for too little, where sentiment came in it lacked warmth, and the storytelling ease of the opening was deficient in poetry.

That this is not Sir Malcolm's strong suit was felt in the Nocturne of Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream music. But the Scherzo," which is probably the most perfect, characteristic and charming thing, in Mendelssohn's whole output, was dazzling, none the less so because it was taken so fast that one tingled with apprehension for its safety, quite needlessly. And how a hearing of the Wedding March in the original makes one hate it on the organ, which is quite incapable of doing justice to those fanfares, as it can only play a a a a where trumpets play pa pa pa pa. There was- even a novelty, but this-may be deferred for discussion with one or two others next week. WITH At the Galleries SPECIAL yN stinctive, course, but the visitor may learn from this show that, jso far from being quite arbitrary.

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N. W. rPHE Gimpel Gallery's miscellany A reveals the variety of abstract aims. Pierre Soulages paints his black and bronze stripes, with light glowing through them, for sheer physical satisfaction; Roger Hilton conceives his rudimentary strips of colour on a white ground as actual objects swimming in space around us. while Peter Canyon reduces his Tide race to strokes of mother-of-pearl and grey flecked with white, and bordered with sprays of green.

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