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THE OBSERVER WEEKEND REVIEW. NOVEMBER 7. 1965 The Arts 25 BIRD LIFE IN BATTERSEA mr -j- i tt-t jt. -i -m 'it. i i i i hi 'in i i i in ii Hi' mini TOM SMITH Anthony Caro an influential liberator of art with one of his new works at the Kasmin Gallery, discussed Cairo to Caro Contrasting symphonies rag SALOON barflies on Thursday morning were buzzing over Up The Junction with that insistent note which means a hit.

The BBC-1 presentation of Nell Dunn's objective study of mixed-up members of the Battersea lumpen proletariat had made a distinct impact on the subtopian tiominids. The impressionistic production, which stressed the documentary rather than the dramatic element, and wasn't always dead easy to follow, didn't seem to have foxed them unduly. Nobody objected that it wasn't really a play at And there were only a few sniggers about the drawers in the dialogue. The message, that this was very much what some girls really are like, had got across. Some said it was too near the mark altogether.

And of course that scarifying abortion sequence played the part of the wages of sin in melodrama, tipped the moral balance and enabled the Norns to wag their fingers. Personally could have done with more rather than less documentation. I would like to know just how typical these girls arid their sad sub way of life are of Battersea as compared with other parts of London. But the pull of this programme was yet another powerful demonstration of the overriding importance in a dramatic documentary of the basic script. This needs to be rooted.

in exact-observation, free from those jaded tricks that give an illusion of depth and result in too much telly and not enough verity. Bonfire builders We got another lesser sidelight on slum or near-slum life, and how prevalent it still seems' to be, in spite of so-called affluence, in BBC-2's The Group series from Bristol. The mob here The Bashers was a knot of toughish children between the ages of 12 and 18, mostly boys, playing on a wasteland site. Their main constructive activity was building a gigantic bonfire in preparation for November 5 and sleeping near it to protect it from would-be wreckers. There was one fervent animal-lover, a- refugee Hungarian boy, totally anglicised, who kept, pigeons and rabbits; he seemed more in touch with the country than any of them.

The only signs of affluence on view here, were a rather elaborate-looking air pistol and some plastic fishing-rods. The World Tonight continues to be a most irritating and disappointing tellymag. Last week, however, its comparison of standards of service, in various though gimmicky and superficial, was at any rate moderately compulsive. Britain, Italy, the United States, and Japan, were examined and marked in competition style for various amenities and public facilities such as hotels, motor car repairs, plumbers, ambulance and fire. The sensation was the winner: Japan, well on top of the U.S.

You don't need be told who was bottom we were several marks below Italy, though we managed to rate a good score for emergency services, notably fire. I wish I could have managed to feel a few degrees more enthusiastic for The Siege of Manchester (by Royalist forces during the Civil. War, when the population was 3.000) with which BBC-2 celebrated its arri- val in the North Midlands. This was obviously a most worthy and sincere attempt to combine a faithful historical chronicle-play with, a dash of new-style documentary production, influenced by the success of "Culloden." Unfortunately it fell between all possible stools and dragged rather heavily in the process. Almost the only character who came to life was Captain Ros-worm, the German mercenary employed by the commercially-minded burghers to conduct the defence of the town.

He was vigorously played by Alan Dobie. But most of the native Mancunians remained in the zombie stage. Some of the exterior film sequences, especially the wavering line of Royalist troops advancing across the fields looked impressively, natural, but they didn't blend any too well with the studio sets of the town, which obstinately suggested an impending State visit- from Mother Goose. On the run A viewable play from Anglia's Drama Department is still something of an event. Four Days to the Fireworks, their version of an interesting, rather unusual suspense novel by Philip Purser, was not bad at all.

Denholm Elliott gave a solidly convincing performance as the unfortunate physicist who had gone to ground as a garage mechanic to dodge a security scandal, and was on the run, with wife and sick child, from' Press his sworn tormentor being a stone-bald photographer with a snarl like Dracula's. A chase story with frequent switches of place is never easy to tell on TV, and there were one or two rather awkward changes of tempo in this adaptation, but it kept me hooked. I continue to be hopelessly addicted to The Avengers, and discover to my alarm that I have total' recall of every instalment I have seen of the present run. Its dreamlike quality, reinforced by that clever stylisation, has a curiously hypnotic suspending effect. It enables you to overlook the lunatic inconsistencies.

There is an analogy here with Buchan's thrillers, the action of which if you analysed it closely often turned out to be preposterous. Last week's, featuring Ransack," an organisation for higher I.Q.s masterminded by a toxo-philite games which brainwashed the intelligentsia into performing the wildest feats of murder and atomic sabotage, was the most fantastic so far. also the most amusing. There were some brilliantly funny' touches. And somehow, in spite of almost total absurdity, it remained exciting.

Spy's paradise Meanwhile the latest BBC-2 thriller Ken Hughes's An Enemy Of The now planted in a Moscow turned into a spy's is showing distinctly improved form as compared with the catatonic trance that seemed to- have overtaken this channel's thrillers a few months back. The appearance of Dallia Penn, as the new glamorous interpreter, gave last Sunday's a decided lift. I must apologise for referring last week to the inventor of the poetry-making machines (Dom Sylvester Houedard, O.S.B.) as an ex-monk." CAMEO MOULIN, Plccy Circus. Ger 1653. (Opp.

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GERard 7413. LONDON IN THE RAW, X. Plus Search for Venus, A. LOOK here upon this picture and on this! Hamlet's injunction often jumps to my mind when, wandering around the inexhaustible treasures of London's galleries, I am confronted by works which aim at totally contradictory targets, and yet justify their direction. This week provides some rich examples.

For example, in the small Lasson Gallery in Jermyn Street, among a choice cluster of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings, is a work which strik-' ingly symbolises the spirit of an age quite different from ours. It is called "Judith" and is by the not normally very eminent Italian artist Del Cairo (1598-1674). Dewy-eyed under an enormous turban, the seventeenth-century Avenger girl poises her jewelled dagger over the decapitated head of her lover proud, serene, sensual and sensation-loving, confident that Man is the lens through which all truths can be perceived. To move from, this image to the world of Jean Rafael Soto, who has a show at Signals Gallery, is an immense psychological journey. Here is another gifted artist (perhaps the best this way-out gallery has shown us so fart; but he has rejected mankind and his society as a viable artistic unit in fact lie has abandoned the material world altogether.

We are out in a kind of intellectual vacuum bowl. Delusion and magic are his instruments, and very beautifully he uses them in his optical constructions to create a quivering universe in which space ilbclf seems to vibrate. These highly sophisticated objects of which made a strong impression at last year's Venice Bi-cnnale) are models of precision-simple units of wire and thread work against a fine-ruled field to give effects of flowing or flickering movement, of ambiguous space, of visual harmonics. They are the very epitome of the centrifugal spirit of the space age. Yet even here, man has his place and his part, for it is we who.

as we move across these works, spark them into life. Somewhat related symbols of our time are to be seen at the Kasmin Gallery, where four of Anthony Caro's new sculptures lie about the floor like droppings from some flying saucer. Caro is an influential liberator of art to whom our youngest practitioners owe much he broke through the romantic hangover of the forties and fifties. His big Whitechapel show two FORTUNE. TEM 2238.

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tonight ill Sri. 13th. Nmhtly at 8. years ago gave us a taste of his new language plain, pre-fabbed metal units, often brightly coloured welded together into open constructions which had more to. do with feeling than formal space-design.

Now he has gone further still, and further from the human centre. These four pieces two small, two large are extremely simple. Two are made of three bits of painted metal, one of five, one of six. A typical one, titled (probably just for convenience) "Frognal," is dark green and about 15 ft long. Two short sections of a girder lean, like great knuckle-bones, against the end of a simple T-square.

Across it, diagonally, lies a big metal rod. It looks like nothing, refers to nothing, arouses no emotion, expresses no temperament or stress. It is as isolated from us as a comet or a tortoise. But, like them, it strongly exists. By shedding so-many of the qualities which cling round sculpture Caro, too, has found a genuine- and contemporary style.

The Arts Council Gallery is showing an important and enjoyable exhibition which falls at exactly the right momenta-Belgian Art at the turn of the century. Interest in mystical experiences which led to the international style roughly known as Art Nouveau has led to better understanding of painters outside the post-Impressionist stream which was to lead to Cubism. Brussels was, from the formation in 1SS4 of the XX Group onwards, a particularly rich centre of this tendency, which runs through the best'work. sometimes lyrical, sometimes bitter, and breaks out superbly in James Ensor. This show gives a welcome glimpse of, a too unfamiliar world.

There are fascinating echoes of other places, times and people. Van de Woestijne's beautiful "The Cripple" recalls the Russian Vrubel KhnopfF presages Del-vaux's surrealism; Schirren makes us think of the German Macke Spillaert's flat curvaciousness recalls Arp and the Hungarian Conservatory. Above all. the rich originality of the Art Nouveau graphic work can hardly have been better revealed than in Van de Welde's lively and tasteful work. LYRlfc.

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Banquet ins room available. GER 6444. ART GALLERIES EXHIBITIONS page 26 Damaged Minds AARON COPLAND, most popular of American composers, was in London again last week, delighting a large Festival Hall audience with his sprightly, sensitive direction of the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme devoted to works by himself and Stravinsky. On paper the programme first half Stravinsky, second half Copland looked promising; in the event the sheer strength and individuality of Stravinsky's creative personality made Copland's music seem by pale and fabricated. At any rate, this was true of the Short Symphony (1933) which, after an interval, followed Stravinsky's wonderfully vital Symphony in C.

Not that there is any. question-here of Copland's symphony be-irg directly influenced by Stravinsky's, which was written seven years later. But no one can dispute that Stravinsky's rhythmic vivacity and cool, precise orchestration have been profound formative influences on Copland's style "in general and to hear the Stravinsky master-work and the Copland piece in such close juxtaposition fatally pointed, up the genius of the first and the inadequacy of the second. Conductor's insight No one could doubt Copland's admiration of the older composer after the insight and sympathy with which he conducted the Symphony in (though it seemed to me that it Was' only in this work that the L.S.O. were on their best form) did anyone ever write such beautiful wind chords, has any composer since Verdi and Berlioz so understood how to energise his music with taut, springing rhvthms? Every sound that Stravinsky makes in this symphony extends and illuminates one's aural understanding every premise that he starts from implies and is given a wealth of argument.

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obviously so intense that sometimes he cannot get them down on paper slowly enough. Sometimes, in his music, it seems he cannot pause to clarify and develop the fascinating point he has just made because he has to rush on to a new one that has just possessed him. In the case of a ballet, and even possibly an opera, this way of composing can work perfectly well; but the structural 'needs of a symphony are altogether more stringent. tn the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Festival Hall concert on Wednesday, Christoph von Dohnanyi grandson of the composer conducted Henze's Symphony (1962), which has a slow movement so simple and relaxed that it sounds like -an improvisation: its three solo cadenzas, successively for bass-flute, viola and cor anglais, are very pretty but they have nothing behind their pretty surfaced to make one eager to renpw their acquaintance. The first movement, though, is a much tighter design, full of striking contrasts, and the final Moto Perpetuo'is a lively and stimulating affair.

Hard to explain Mr von Dohnanyi has an acute ear and had clearly rehearsed the orchestra with care both, in this piece. and in Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, which, because it is so instantly attractive and now that our orchestras can play it so confidently, ought soon to become a general favourite. The inexplicable part of this concert was that the BBC had thought it necessary to import two soloists, Franco Gulli and Bruno Giurarina, who gave an odiously cocky and 'superficial performance of Mozart's heavenly Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, when by simply booking their own leaders, Maguire and Harry Danks, they could' have got an altogether more musical However, there is no evidence so far for thinking that Mr vpn Dohnanyi is nearly so hot on Mozart as he is on the 'moderns. VANBRUGH (Mems) LAN 7982 Nightly at 7.30.

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SCHWEYK IN THE 2nd WORLD WAK four movements, though calculated to a hair's breadth, is packed with rich extensions of the original idea. By contrast add I regret that the contrast was so forced upon our -notice Copland's Short Symphony made claims that it never fulfilled, raised topics that if appeared to discuss while not really doing so. However, things improved with the next work, the excellent Statements for. Orchestra, written between 1933 and 1935, when Copland was moving away from his earlier mathematical manner (Constant Lambert's phrase) to a warmer, less, cerebral style. Free for lyricism For my money, Copland's best, music is in his ballet scores Billy ibe Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring most of.

all. And what makes Statements work so well is that, freed from the necessity of symphonic argu; ment which, to judge by the. Short Symphony, he evidently found cumbersome he is able to give full rein to. his lyrical gift, his feeling for a plastic rhythm and for witty and exact orchestration. Each of the six" short movements has a tide like Militant or Subjective or Jingo (the latter containing that rarity, a really good musical joke), each is exactly contained within its own length, and each is not only arresting at the time but-.

is pleasing to reflect upon after-. wards. Give me a striking personal statement any day in preference to a gbt-iip argument. Henze is another composer whose music is sometimes (though not always) more effective when it is structurally a loosely tied bundle of coruscating notions than when it is a tightly woven symphonic web. The sheer pressure of ideas in Henze's brain is ST.

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Wed Sat at 3. DOROTHY TUTIN as Oueen Victoria and cast or- 18 in PORTR-VIT OF A QUEEN A TRIUMPH. A PLAY I CAN RECOMMEND WITHOUT A SINGLE RESERVA-' TION." News A TRIUMPH to be talked and sung about." Sun. Times. versatile Peter Bayliss as one of the most for some time' E.

NEWS EVERYMAN THEATRE CHELTENHAM Cheltenham 25544 llll November 131b HENRY IV (Part One) by William Shakespeare No Monday Perls. Sals 5.0 and 8-0. Evenings 7.4S p.m. Weds 2.30 p.m. SHEFFIELD PLAYHOUSE Tel -22949.

Mon. Tuc. Wed. MAN AND SUPERMAN. Thur, Fri.

Sal. HAMLET. Eves 7.30, Sat 4.0 7.30. Opening 16tb Nov, World Premiere of A KIND OF LOVING. YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE, Guildford.

(Guildford 6019172.) Tues-Thurs evgs. 7.45. mat. 2.30. Fri-at.

5.00 St 8.00. Ann Nicholas Penneli, Gwen CherreU. Cyril Luckham. Robert Andrews in THE VORTEX by Nofl Coward. CINEMAS ACADEMY CINEMA ONE (GER.

2981). TOKYO OLYMPIAD (U). Scope and colour. Progs. 4.5.

6.25. 8.50. ACADEMY CINEMA TWO (GER. 5129). THE PEACH THIEF (M and BOUDU (A).

3.35. 5.10. 8.25. ACADEMY CLUB (GER. 8819).

Until Nov. 10 LA BELLE VIE. Fm Nov. 11 LOTNA. ASTORIA.

Ch. Rd. Ger. 5385. Charlton Hcston, Rex Harrison.

The Agony And The Ecstasy (U). Todd-AO col. Sep. perfs. 4.30.

8.0. Wkdys. 2.30. 8.0. All Bookable.

BERKELEY. Mu 8150. Boaar le. I Harvey and Julie Christie in Darling (X). CLASSIC CINEMAS.

WEL 8836. BAKER ST. Laurence Harvey. The Long the Short I lie Tan. z.

4.30 6.35 8.45. CHELSEA. Laurence Olivier, Shakespeare Season. Henry V. n.

2 Progs 4.30, 7.4S. NOTTING HILL GATE. Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine. Jane Eyre, 4.35, 6 35 8 40. HAMPSTEAD.

The Nanny, x. 5 45 9 5 Chabrol's Playing at Love. X. 4.5. 7 20 CARTOON CINEMA.

PICCADILLY CIRCUS NOW OPEN I LONDON'S SMARTEST CINEMA. LUXURIOUS DECOR. COMFORTABLE SEATS. SHEER RELAXATION A 70 MINUTES OF BRIGHT. FAST MOVING ENTERTAINMENT.

Thh week Prize-winning PIERRE ETAIX comedy HAPPY ANNI- VERSARY." 2 HOFFNUNG musical. Cartoons. Tom gt Jerry. Speedy Gonzafcs Woody Woodpecker, traditional Ireland in Colour. World News.

None of Ihete Cartoons previously shown in any News Theaire. THE MUST SHOW FOR LONDONERS VISITORS ALIKE CASINO CINERAMA. GER 6877. THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL U. Today at 4 JO 7.50.

Weekdays 2.30 and 7.45. Sals al 2.0. 5.20, 8.40 and 11.55. All Bookable. COLISEUM CINERAMA.

Tern 3161. THE GREAT RACE (U). Sep. Perfs. Today at 4.0 7.30.

Wkdys 2.30 7.30. Sats. at 2.0. 5.15, 8.30 11.45 p.m. All Bookable.

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE CLUB 98 Avenue Road. Swiss Cottage, N.W.3. PR1 9301 Monduy November 22ntt to Satorda.y December 4th JILL BENNETT JESSIE EVANS KEN JONES IAN McKELLEN in A LILY IN LITTLE INDIA a comedy written and directed by DONALD HOWARTH PRIOR TO WEST END This week Wimbledon Theatre Nov. 15th Theatre Royal, Brighton HOW'S THE WORLD treat'ing you A naw comedy by Roger Milner, Diracted by Philip Grout -When seen at Hampstead the-critics said Made me laugh almost continuously 'FIN. TIMES che play succeeds wonderfully the jokes are in the main brilliant' TIMES Dec.

20-Jan I line. Sun. Dee. 261 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Nicholas Stuart Gray MEMBERSHIP: 1.1.0. A YEAR (Students 76) TICKETS FROM 76 FOR FULL DETAILS RING PR1 9301.

Patricia Routledge emerges with the amusing young actresses I have seen.