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THE OBSERVER WEEKEND REVIEW, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1962 The Arts Films Music by EDMUND TRACEY Do shoppers want a SQVABE by PENELOPE G1LLIATT GETTING A LAUGH OUT OF BOND AT Sadler's Wells last week, when the Hamburg State Opera ended their short but memorable season by giving us the first stage performance in this country of Alban Berg's Lulu, many people -were astonished to find how easily enjoyable the music was to listen to. Even ten years ago we were baffled by the style of Wozzeclc and now here was a dodecaphonic opera which actually the audience on their feet at the end cheering with admiration. Which goes to show, that the listener does not stand still any more than die composer. We develop more slowly' than the composer but. given THE SIREN OF SADLER'S WELLS opera with the same sympathy and through the character of a younji warder from the bogs who starts off with the official attitude to capital punishment and ends up knowing the horror of it because he has made love lo the condemned man's wife.

This is reducing a work of art to the level of a tenlh-ratc problem play on the telly The situation is Dreifuss's invention as Behan wrote "it. nothing is spelt out like this. One simply learns what the prisoners and the warders themselves know about the process of hanging, a pressure of facts that packs mto one's skull like the pile-up of a lethal headache. The quaxe fellow in the play is ne ver pleaded for, and be never appears. One is told that he killed a man with a meat chopper; otherwise he is a generality.

He is going to be given eggs and 'bacon for his last breakfast, and the warders are going to treat him with the cheerful decorum recommended in the Home Office regulations For fear he sees the time, no one will wear a watch "Ihis ts all nc no ws about him. onl that he is a living mati, about to be murdered in rhe presence of a priest His unseen identity ts so powerful lhat it seems a shoddy piece of journalism to slip in a shot of his feet walking lo hi death Looking Into the condemned cell; the prison hangman (Arthur O'Sulli van, left) and his assistant (Brian Hewitt-Jones) in "The Quare Fellow" examine the man they will execute. HOW CLEAN SHOULD OUR DIRTY PICTURES BE? By NIGEL GOSLING of sexual instinct She is first introduced to us, in a prologue, as the snake in an animal trainer's troupe: creature whose only function is to seduce and corrupt The attitude recalls Strindberg. but Wedekind's view of woman differs from Strindberg's in that he doesn't hate and fear her. He noither censures, nor but merely compiles stark record of her adventures.

Everyone who comes into contact with Lulu feels her hypnotic attraction. Admirers fly to her like moths tq the flame: a succession of husbands, ail of whom die of her in one -way or another, a doting schoolboy, a self-sacrificing Lesbian, and the piece finally flares into Grand Guignol when she picks up Jack the Ripper and is murdered by Berg did not live to complete his opera. When he died he' bad finished the first two acts and had composed part and sketched most of the rest of the third; a lot of the music he did complete, however, is among the finest he ever wrote. (The Hamburg Company, by the way, make a miniature third act by performing the music that Berg completed for its first scene as an accompaniment to a lantern slide narration of Lulu's gradual drift on to the streets; this is followed by a short second scene showing both her murder and that of the Lesbian for which the music was also composed.) After seeing the opera twice, 1 don't feel that, es a drama, it works as well as "Wozzeck." The action is too multifarious and too compnessed and it is often hard to track down an adequate motivation for the highly bizarre events that occur. And unlike Wozzeck there is no clearly defined dramatic shape; the libretto is a sequence of vivid and often chaotic images about the life and death of Lulu, but as she herself is an undeveloping figure there are no levels in her experience.

Powerfully as she is imagined. Lulu herself is only one thing to all men we know what this is right from die start and thus there can be no surprises, no sudden illumination. HOWEVER, I hardly criticise the dramatic idea so much as state a preference for another AriW of drama; and in fact Berg does deepen and ex tend the action of the libretto in his music. The orchestral interludes which, as in "Wozzeck," link the stage scenes achieve the most impassioned lyrical intensity. And what a master of the theatre this score shows him to be.

In a few bars he can make a point, evoke an atmosphere. The perfectly judged off-stage jazz band in the theatre scene is an example or the hurdy-gurdy effect which "places" the streets of Edwardian London in the last scene of the opera or again the galumphing tuba which pinpoints the crudities of the Athlete's character in the second act The first time I heard it the scoring (though always clear) sounded occasionally overloaded too coiled and packed; but this is a feature of Berg's naturally tense style which one learns to get used to and, in fact, the opera abounds in passages of chamber-size delicacy. ALL in all, we cannot exaggerate the debt we owe to the Hamburg Company for introducing this work to us in such, a satisfying production. Sometimes the visual action is of almost cinematic complexity, but Dr. Ren-nert has staged it with absolute precision and clarity.

Teo Otto's designs are equally imaginative: taking his cue from the Ringmaster who appears in the prologue, Herr Otto sets the piece as if it were in, a circus show with a gaudy curtain, a suggestion of tent-poles around a central platform and a dark backcloth painted with a multitude of leering faces. The sets are simple and stylised but the styli-sation is exact, not vague: the objects on the stage every art nouveau lamp and chair, and- potted fern are relevant and necessary and thus perfectly support tht'Cvents they frame Leopold Ludwig conducted the INT. FILM TH. BAY 2345. I.

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Lee Remlck. Grip of Fan OT). Progs, al 4.30 7..10. ANGLED productions of Othello, monstrous distortions of The Messiah." vandaloua changes in Swan Lake -these are familiar and recurrent accusations. Tbey are sometimes true, but not disastrously.

For though not, like literature, immune from change and decay the interpreted arts have an incorporeal heart which remains intact. But pictures are maternal objects and subject to material decline. Care for them as we may, they slowly leave us. One day the not unimaginable future the Mona Lisa will be gone, smile and all. Paiirtings are eternal communications incorporated in a perishable product.

We can see the message fading and more agonisingly becoming distorted. What should we do Patch Operate Shore up the ruin or scrape away the barnacles The dilemma Thu is the dilemma of the gallery curator all over the world, the one hich exposes him to the cleaning controversy It bas been hanging over the National Gallery for years. Another round in the contest opens with the gallery's new report, published last week, in which the director tires some effective broadsides at bis critics. The National Gallery has repu-tjhori for radical action. Over a hundred years ago a puhlic inquiry on its cleaning policy was set up I lie accused." Fjsjlakc.

triumphed crV.inmg has gone on prtrtt regularly ever since. In the last 15 years 127 paintings have been treated. In a field where every statement calK for reservations, one general assertion can be made; to clean a painting is normally to make it colder in colour. This is because the protective vamish turns yellow with age (the famous "golden glow" of many a Rembrandt or Titian is largely due to discoloured varnish eventually becoming that brown gravy so derided by Hogarth and Constable Neutralising Yellow being the complementary, or opposite, of blue, the varnish tends to neutralise blues wherever they occur. In the paintings which sparked off the most recent row (and which are discussed in the report) Titian used rather freely a bright ultramarine blue, a colour which anyway intensifies with age.

and cleaning disclosed it in what has been called "ferocious" sharpness. Meanwhile the greens in the picture had faded. DEAL? In recent years, there i have been an in the number of bodies uWili- cating themselves to i protection. Many obviously are in complete sympathy with this linn saissill How many? It's very hard to say. Certainly a large number of housewives seem to enjoy all the colour and eratafMat, which have becooaa aueb a part, of day-to-day shipping.

Corripetitiohs, trjmporary bargains' offers of mmgs ojoicto alien to the products offer sag them the success of racri inducements shows that the is always strong. It is quite clear that many people have a zest for the fairground atmosphere of modern shopping. Matty, but not all. NO FRILLS A number of people (some more vociferous than others) obviously prefer a more stable buying situation. It is to cater for these people, in the case of washing powders, that Lever Brothers Associates have introduced Square Deal Surf.

Square Deal Surf is a detergent sold without frills or attachments of any kind. Instead it offers something less titillating perhaps, but more germane to the serious business of getting clothes clean just over 1 8 more powder for the same price. Every packet has a guarantee of full extra weight on the back. By eliminating nan -essentials, this can be done while still maintaining the full quality and efficiency of the powder. THE FUTURE Obviously, thefuture of Square Deal Sun depends on bow many people really want a square deal.

First reports seem to show that quite a number of people do.B REPORTS AND REVIEWS THE WHOLE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY simon 'raisfaK PROBABLY THE FINEST Stylet! with the discriminating man in mind for whom only the bets ii good enough. See Simot-Dcrred domes at leading men's thopt tlioughout the couiitxy. SiMOH H00O. IS SBlSa tQBMK, 1 goal row.g- 8 I Tiiiiissa? ttlauri- t-Jv niTQiui stm understanding that he showed in his performance of Wozzeck," and the company particularly Toni Blank -enheim as Dr. Schon sang with remarkable stylistic accomplishment.

It was, however, Helga Pilarczyk's evening. There cannot often have been a singer who united such intellectual acumen deduclble from her brilliant singing: with so enveloping a sexual aura. Having despoiled practically everyone on tile stage, she was cheered with such uninhibited rapture that she almost brought about the decadence of Sadler's Wells, f'm sure Lilian Baylis would have been pleased. 1 MUST briefly commend the Covcnt Garden revival of Dei Rosenkavalier last Tuesday, mainly on account of Silvio Varviso's superb conducting. I hailed Mr.

Varviso for his excellent Glyndebourne Figaro in the summer, and his performance of the Strauss opera convinces me that he is an outstandingly gifted young conductor. The orchestra played as if they were inspired, achieving miracles of delicacy and refinement in a score that is too often made to sound rowdy and pot-bellied, and every singer on the stage took light and fire from Varviso's presence. Irmgard Seefried was an eager exuberant Octavian and Kurt Boehme has considerably deepened his interpretation of Ochs since I heard him last Arttal Doratl relaxes at the piano during rehearsals. A fiery 'Ninth' VNTAL IX) RATI brought a touch of fire to the first concert on Wednesday of the B.B.CVs new series at the Festival Hall. The programme) centred around a decisive.

taut performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. There was none of the holy mystery, the paralysing awe which afflicts so many interpretations. In fact. Do rati seemed determined to say mat this was a symphony like any other; it must stand or fall by its musical meaning alone. Significantly, the place where the holy school begins to fail was one of Dorati's best moments the introduction to the last movement So often, the recitative broadens out here and destroys any impetus, in spite of Beethoven's explicit markings.

By taking die composer literally, Doraii provided a clear relationship between the various fragments, and prepared the way for a tight, convincing set of choral variations. It'was of course, hard on the singers; but the quartet of soloists coped well with the score's unrelieved cruelties, Norman Kay Stravinsky fb Moscow: Page 12 ODEON. Hajatutrkct. CWHI 2738) BARABBAS A) Technjrama-70. Tech.

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FOYLES ART GALLERY 119-125 Charing Cross-rd. W.C.2. IT is easy to get angry about Ian Fleming's James Bond. He is snobbish, bruia and sneering, and his rapacjous character i full of the new upper-class thuggihncs he ts a ile man lo be given as a hero Ru! Dr. No U.nnJon PaiJiont.

rhe first of whai is ohvii.js, going to he a series Jane Bond fi Litis. Lakes che wind out ot one rage it m-ikes him cm funns Instead of admiring hn vodka martinis and hts idle grabs at girls and his coo! way of dumping a corpse or. Government House, it fen-iiy sends him up. "Dr. No" is fuli of submerged self-parody, and 1 th.nk would be as wrong to take it fcnlcmnk as it would he to worry that Sherlock Holmes's beastliness to Dr aKon enuouraRc intellectual arrogan-e or the taking of cocaine.

The storv is oiSvioua1 made with a eve on the American market It is cr jn 1 .1 m.i k.i a nd concerns Hond i' i mid irorrnc genius 'i iv d-jicd hune, to ruining 1 'c riKket i 'i ch tnmtorting rtli unalisation ol vie Jarnp nh anaveral. pi.wJ Jonopi iserruri, s. TMril, htnec and Blind guesses i. lies ji once Wuh vour dis- card iitc." he vavs. you must be i he il in character.

member of toe Last. Bond himself trm time has B.lread. disregarded quite a lo. of lite, sent a lorry lull of people in flames Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No.

don a precipice, a dangerous geologist while placing patience and Blam ped on a tarantula that has been sent upon murderous article through the hairs on his che( Picking up his fourth or hi th 1 ol ihe film, a nature child wearing a hra and a scout Knife, he im jiies Dr No's stronghold and gel- captured The stronghold is an underwater laboratory with magnificent Suencc ichon equipment and a suite ot rooms Jurn-ihed in a Ic lhat mifiht be described a.s i Niona i res' plan ft reflects (he 1 1 Tr i i r' rhe hook per rf'i .1 ft nJ, pr mi ion i- Ham SaJrmin ri.ikcv look is tnongh she makers know j( lerence i oimg rets. Sean i1' Rond. lean and heroin It sounds like a piece of miscasting, hut he does it with the right sophisticated self-will and takes a good deal of the greed out ol the chaiacter FVFN rf had done no more than set up a camera in front ol the Joan Litlkwood production of Brendan Bchan's The Quare fellow, it would h.txc been a better film than ihc version written and directed Arthur Dreif uss Rialto i Walter Mack en's performance as Warder Regan, it is a tra vests How can an one with enough feeling lor the play to want to make it in the first place have starved so much humour out ol it, and made something so clumsy out ol its black poetic spirit Whi try to gtve it a plot, for instance In the original the onl nar-raioe the passing of time in a prison jast Klme a hanging There is never a- d-Mihi that the man is eoing lo be lopped, and to introduce phones Unsion about whether or not a last-nunure piece of sex evidence mav get a repjieve seems like filling in the h.L- Henr Moore Nor does one need he told that hangme is wrong ann I I II U- BnilM) TIIF fhun MiJIr retof Jon- hate wiiir. mnvical l.jmetil cii A S1 Bl I 1 mu-ii'iil 1 tonrt Burt, I Mil PHI Tl not ink urn -iJ i.iic I rcn IThip Marc rmolirl. PtHKi I BWI tHJ N(, POINT k.

I ni 'lin 1 rl A rhi ii ON tt Ijtrnri h- Uy ill.Min Fairrhilrl. Hps I I HrHl THIM. mold i i -r II I HTM N'T 1 Of PIHl fMPH I vl fr MOM MH N. PK 11.111 MK- lj 1 I ,11 It chance to hear unfamiliar music frequently and well played, oilr capacities are gradually and unconsciously enlarged. In the scintillating Monitor interview with Milton Babbitt last Sunday, Mr.

Wheldon asked' incredulously if, an electronic opera were imaginable: Mr. Babbitt urbanely answered that not only could be imagine it but be was open to offers. So the cycle continues. 1 BERG constructed his own libretto for Lulu from and Pandora's Box," two plays by Frank Wcdekind which, in vivid' and squalid detail, present Lulu's sexual career and ultimate degradation. Lulu is the eternal woman or rather a soulless, emphatically physical version of her the irresistible temptress, the creature of lost detail.

As an Important byproduct, the apparent gulf between antique and modern painting is closed Titian, wo find, was no more of a tawny-port merchant than is Taraayo. The losses are, first, the bloom which time spreads on any abject an accident perhaps but none the less precious for that; the replacement of a loved image by a new one not necessarily more authentic; possible damage to the original; and, most important, the intensification of distortions caused by time to the general harmonic scheme. Intention betrayed This last is the strongest argument in the critics' armoury. Since painters, like musicians, compose in "intervals a change in one component may disrupt the entire composition. Some general blurring and modulation may be better than a sharp individual shift Fidelity to the material object may turn out a betrayal of the painter's intention.

The report faces this charge boldly without refuting it. The changes, it implies, are not so large as they are made out and in any case they form norma) wear and tear preferable to fallible human intervention. Which side we favour in the argument is likely to depend on our temperament Our eyes today accept, or even demand, a higher, brighter colour key than those of our fathers and the general contemporary attitude to art, with the emphasis moving from the painting to the painter, probably favours a back to the original at all costs" policy. On the other band there is always a danger of cleanliness becoming preferable, because more exciting, to godliness: and respect and humility towards the achievements of our ancestors is a doctrine which cannot be preached too often. My solution My own solution? I am temperamentally a cleaner.

I would try to correct imperfections revealed, by means of hanging (a red spray over that gold brocade, expensive though it may have been, would be a good investment). I confess that I would even favour a spot of judicious touching up of faded colour, so long as it could be removed by my outraged grandchildren. No standstill of perfection is attainable so long as we keep changing ourselves. Let us try to get as near as we can to the artist's thought, without blocking the light for our successors. The National Gallery, January, 1960-May, 1962: two shillings and sixpence.

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I Lova. Yaaa Lm OX) Kairsbma Vmm Urn OO. a a The change was exaggerated by setting the painting against a yellow wall which intensified the blues still further. The division of opinion over these cases is sharp but narrow. Nobody disputes tfiiat some degree of cleaning was necessary; nobody maintains that he knows exactly what the original was like; all agree that it is impossible to get back to it, anyway, without faking.

After that a clear difference of approach emerges. Though the cleaning of pictures is the responsibility of the Board of Trustees, the opinions of the Director, Sir Philip Hendy, obviously loom large, and what may fairly be called the Hendy line seems to be as follows: 1. Proper conservation often entails removing all surface accretions; 2. The primary aim is to secure the actual material object as it has come down to us, accepting changes wrought by time but excluding improvements imposed by human intervention (e.g. tinted varnish or additions); 3.

Discrimination in the amount of cleaning applied to different parts of the picture is a deliberate act of taste and normally unacceptable. Opposition The- opposition view (expertly expressed by Andrew Forge, painter, cnuc and teacher at the Slade School, in the New Statesman) is, if I understand it right: I. Paintings arc mfin-itel delicate affairs whose essence lies in the subtle balance of the whole 2. Any treatment wbicb upsets this balance seriously damages the picture; 3. Accepting that pictures are mortal, it is better to have a slightly imperfect whole than a collection of clean but distorted parts.

To this another critic. Professor Gombnch, Director of the Warburg Institute adds doubts whether in their diligent drive for the truth the conservers may not, like Dr. Sohliemann at Troy, have gone clean through a vital original layer. Obviously these two views are expressions of a single emotion a passionate love for antique painting. Professor Gombrich is no enemy of cleaning, nor Forge either; and Sir Philip Hendy is not a rabid scrubber (he would not approve the cleaning of SL Paul's).

This is a case where no perfect solution exists. It is a matter of profit and loss, and all depends on what you value most. The gains are clear. The restitution of sharpness of line, colour and form of genera vitality in fact in place of a mellow but mummifying old-master aura the elimination of later alterations and the uncovering REID GALLERY, 73 Cork W.l. Pain tint! by IAME5 MORRISON.

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10-1. 2 Cork Si I WHiTECHAPEL ART GALLERY 1 The Hall- a mark Collection a selection of paintings from the Iniemanonal Hallmark An Awards Last day today 2-6 Admission free. Adjoin. Aldgate East Station. WILTON GALLERY.

Motcomb St. Wl RODNEY BURN A. recent paintings. WOODSTOCK GALLERY. 16 Woodstock Si I Mayfalr 4419 Groupe until 20th October Daily 10-6 Sat 10-1 PROVINCIAL GALLERIES ASHGATE GALLERY, 19 South Fam-hsm AL1STAIR GRANT Patntinaa.

Uoul IB October Tues lo Sat 10 to I. 2 lo 5. ARNOLF1VT GALLERY 42 Triangle West Bristol 11 DEREK GUTHRIE uniil 31 October TT MUST have been the old mythology about bo office that made the director add the part of the quare fellow's wife, in the play there are no women The new character, played by a grotesquely miscast Sylvia Syms, was obviously confeoted in the hope of making a serious film profitable. She supplies a tabloid love-interest, for one thing, swigging drink out of the bottle while she's teetering around the bedpost of a handsome young warder, she is also a devout and worried Catholic, presumably to appease the public that might be offended by the character of Holy Healey exchanges like this Healey Well, we have one consolation. Regan, the condemned man gets the priest and the sacraments, more than his victim got, maybe 1 venture to suggest that some of them die holier deaths than if they had finished their natural spun Warder Regan We cant advertise "Commit a murder and die a happy death, sir." We'd have them all at it They take religion very seriously in this country In a olay as good as The Quare Fellow.

the girl's scenes are like the responses of an air hostess caught up in "Lear" Ftlmgoers aren't as restricted as film-makers sometimes seem to think women don't alwavs need woman character to identify with, and men don't need ersaty sen to be persuaded chat there is passion in a rl THf RF is a story that BakM. when hL ic treating ,1 ballet ih.ii he h.d )irs (Jevjgned i() c.tr before, used in me ra i but made the colours brighter When he was asked he said "Because that'- the wav people rememher them" Mabe that is one of the reasons wh the film of Porey and Bess (Dominion) seems muted Fsrcrv one remembers songs like Summertime and "I Got Plenty of Nuttin' and Bess. You is Mv Woman Now and when one looks hack on it the story seems as moving as Orpheus and Eurvdice; hut Oito Preminger's film is ponderous and flat. It has nothing like the spirit of, for instance, hts own Carmen Jones It can't onlv be that details like dubhmg are atrociously done, or that the deliberate theatricality of Oliver Smith's sets is rather precious. There is enough to balance that 1 Ira Gershwin's unmatched lyrics.

Pearl Bailes's abundant voce. Sidney Poi tier's sage face as the crippled Porgy. the picnic scene when Sammy Davis Jnr. as Sportm' l.tfe sings It Ain't Necessarily So th'nk that Porgv and Bess really fails this is heresy because George Gersh win's music not inventive enough or robust enough to support a full-length opera The stereo-phonic sound doesn't help; it dehumanises the voice, so lhat the choruses sometimes sound like music pi ped into an airport. MY FAIR LAJOY ma steal by Fredeilck Locwr and Aton Jay Lernrr.

Faded copy of sreai orisinal DRURY LANE TEM SIM. 7 Ifl Wed. Sal 2 THE NEW MEN. by Ronald Miliar from Ihc oovrl b) C. P.

Snow. Sober back-room drama of ibf bmh of (he atomic bomb. STRAND. TEM 8 0. 2 JO; Sal A 10 OLIVER musical by Uonci Brl.

The famil Dickens, poviality wit haul the nljjht-mdrc NEW TEM 1KB 7 45. Tue A 4 ONE FOR THE POT. by Roy Coonr und Tony HUlon. faJcc with tour pans for Brian Rj WHITEHALL WHI 662. 7 if) 2 Sal A 8 PEER GVNT.

Hrnrik nweo. hxcitlni Inaugural of new regime. ith Leo McKern'i jiirinn stsr-40lo ui one proauaion ulu WAT 7(16 7 (0. Ihur A PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT, bj Tewict William. Pungent marital corned about cul irtcrrmp.tnb.lh in the nono-decp South.

ttYVDHUr'i ILM SO Wed 2 4 4 A PHOTO FINISH. Pelef Mjn a itum. Of Pjlj1 Linsici)iMHJh rcpU.o I he lcd SWIUf TIM 4011 if- A Scii 11 A SO IHh PIOI 1.11 NT THF STVRV Smb V( Bur piuv Dury renwl MtRMMlJ I) 4(1 flit PKFM1SK. Rret and Hun Arid -r inUUI HI Si in THI PRIA VIE F-VR HI. Prler ShaATrr CI rfir i TheodtMT FJIckrt THF Pt Bl.IC iiih 'ihnciBhr Sj: '0 A ift RnU Ot SIMPLE MN, bj Chart f)rr Imfij.

Ht pri ur ir. 'he ft. -J I Mr (iRKI( TIM V-m in rhur A Sat 4 A to Vll A VA A nsDsicat Noel Coward. ix-caii'iuJ la-hr' nii ihe LfTrsivubke Lame Smith KM bMtfJ NO Wed. 10 Sai A Hi THF SCHOOl FOR SCANDAL.

Richard RiinOrj Nbrridan r-" (- nJ a.n-m a' 'x A 1 -n rd MCNPOST lO Ml Mimic Dulc. i.e MHHIJIjI THF s)t Nil OF Vfl SIC Rodent and i he Her PAI fFR a NT io rf "Sr larj and L-l MOP THF Ort- CTllli-al Miilkaa I I 1 Ifl HH doablc-tult llh MR. PUFF ENTERTAINMENTS GUIDE EXHIBITIONS Art GalkruffTX 'IndUatri open on Sundays ARTHVR JEFFRESS GALLERY (Sevenaru Limited). 28 Davies Sireet- I. MAYfair 7816 Ruxpi Paimings by PHOEBUS TUTTNAUER.

Wkdy. Sau 10-1. KAPLAN GALLERY, 6 Duke Si. James'i. Paintings by the Canadian artist BRUNO-BOBAK Widyj.

1M Sau. 10-1. LEICESTER GALLERIES October exhibition! LEONARD APPELBEE. KRISHEN KH ANN A Paiminsn GAUDIER-BRZESKA DRAWINGS. Leicester Sq.

10- .10 10-1 LEIGHTON HOUSE. 12 Holland Para Road. 14 DOROTHY COLLBS Children'. Portrait, and Recent PalmlnKs. Unul Oct.

20 Daily 11-6 Sau. 11-5. MAKLBOROICH. .10 Old Bond Street, 1. CHYD 6W) KOKOSCHKA.

MOORE. SUTHERLAND--Watcrcolount and drawing. Daily 10-5 SaLs. 10-12. Adm.

free. MAKLBOROI'GH. NEW LONDON GALLERY, 17-18 Old Bond Slrecl. I. (GRO 6T55I MODERN JAPANESE ART.

Daily Saw 10-12 Adm free MATTHIESt'S GALLERY I AWRENCE DAWS Paiminp, and Gouache. Daily lo-s to Sat. 10-1 From Ocl 5lh until Oct 27th. 142. New Bond W.l.

MOLTON GALLERY Paintings By JOHN BARN1COAT October t-2t. daily 10-. Saturdays 10-1 44. Soulb Molten Street. I.

MI SEl-V STREET GALLERIES. 47 Museum SlreeL Bloomsburv C.l Holbom J3JT New Wort by ROBERT COLOUHOUN. NEW ART CENTRE. 41. Sloane Street.

1. SONIA LAWSON Recent Until 20 Ocinher Duly 10-ft Sat. 10-1 V'FW END GALLERY. New Fnd J. Ittancural F.blMftoa NI-SS1 FR paintings Till Ocl 20 Tues -Sat 11-6.

Sun 2-o losed Mondav NEW IS10- CFVTRE GALLERY. 4 Seymour Place Marble ArLh. I PAD 62 Mildred WtlHl Orleans Painter Kt I mil 2lb PICCADILLY GALLERY. 16a Tork St I Painnnir, b. CLACDF OROSPFRRIN Drawina, b.

Ft DFRTf 1 1 MORONI fnul n.i PORTAL GAUERY. SALLY Dl'CKSBt RY. neu giiuaLtic. 16. Grafton St Bond St I Ol F.KNSWOOD GAl.LF.RV 214 ArLhav Rd Hiahgatr N6 AnKls ol ihe Gallery 121 Dlv lo- io Th 10-1.

Sat RLDFERN GA1JERV. 20 Tork Strcci 1 Rnetii Painting bv Al AN REYNOLDS Hour. IO-6 Sat 10-1 CIoacs Nov 1st Is your home like one of these three Tswo of the three homes we're talking about didn't have gas-fired central heating until fairly recently. In the other home, it was built-in. The "case histories" of these three homes one of which is probably very similar to- yours are the theme of the Potterton central heating exhibition called WEIGHING-UP WARMTH De La Rue House, 84 Regent Street, LxmdonW.

1 OpenMondayto Friday 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (7 p.m. Tbura.) Fraa film shows dally Here, you can settle all your central heating problems. Find out what it costs for your home.

Go this week. TOWARDS HOUSING THE DISABLED Exhibition at the Royal Society 01 Health. 90 Buckingham Palace Road. London. -i Rmllca ol a research bouse, eotlitroed arilfa the latest Ideas and aids.

Until October 23rd. 10 a.m.-r p.m. weekdays, iu a.ra.o p.m. Sau. Special help lor disabled visitors, w.

Th. Sata. Admission free. gawnrr p.srnramnN op CHILDREN'S ART AND LITERATURE at the NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE, Albemarle Street. PIccadJilp.

October louwutn II un4J0 tun. (tin 5 Sau: and till TtlnnJ Ad. bee. AUTUMN ANTIQUES FAIR. I) e.m.-?J0 p.m.

until October I3tJ. Ton HalL Kings Road, CD i-WJ. THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN. LONDON. W.C.2.

THE ROYAL BALLET I.Fft RFNDFZVOl OCT. 10, 11. 17 at 7.M THF GOOD HI MOCRED LADIES. THE RITE OP SPRING OCT I mt 2.1 A OCT. 10 7.3 I FILL MAl i t.i.

0T. 10 si .5 A OCT THF TWO PldLOM bill Will ii I OIU THE ROCKS BOS IHiinmNipiidinuiUuiiuniiunnniiiiiiuutiw THE COVENT t( 1 a. 1 1 IS lg. al 1 pktir SFAIS avaLjM)L Proarusune 10 Dee GARDEN OPERA 7. produerkm n( enll'a DKL DEST1NO on I II IJER ROSENKW 6.LIFR IS and full 'lt bres aVoa OBe OOV 1064.

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