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10 Friday September 26 1969 ARTS GUARDIAN second suite from Ravel's Daphnls and Chloe" Mr Fremaux is in his early fifties; though he looks less, and now divides his time between Birmincham and' Lyon, where he is also conductor of the Orchestre Phiiharmonique. Watching the way he cover-drove the cymbal clashes in the first statement: of in the Britten, one might-almost have taken him for a native. But, apart from these sideways swipes towards emphatic punctuation, his style, is not unrestrained, the left hand toavinp little independence from the right, and. the latter endowed with a carefully precise and readable beat. His, in fact, is the sort of style which is suited to a work like the Ravel, which was performed on this occasion with precisely controlled rhythms, admirably clear texture, and a well calculated overall shape.

Had the lyrical contrasts been Phrased with more sensitivity and flexibility, it would have been a thoroughly exciting interpretation. Mr Fremaux's s'tyle is evidently suited to, the "Cinq Metaboles" of Dutilleux, who is closely related to Ravel by musical descent. There is a similar concern for sensuous sound in his work, with further contributions from Messiaen and fauve Stravinsky, and the last of the five sections bears an unmistakeable resemblance: to the end of Daphnis." It is a very likeable piece, in spite of its lack of. forceful individuality and ultimate impact. The scoring, of which the CBSO made the skilful most, is resourcefully varied between the five sections and remains a present source of interest throughout.

This work of mainly gentle sonority, ana supple line can be heard again tonight when the CBSO repeats the programme in the Royal Festival Hall, with John Williams the soloist in a pair of guitar concertos. Television STANLEY REYNOLDS This Week JOHN MORGAN, a Thames Television This Week reporter, did a long and leisurely informative film on Germany this week, on the late night Tuesday documentary slot doled out by the ITA presumably in the belief that if people want to find out what's going on they can damn well sit up and wait for it. Anyway, it was good to see the ITV men taking their time with current events. The norm is something under half an hour 24 minutes or so after the commercials have been shown for "This Week" or Granada's "World in Action" to communicate. It must be a heart-breaking job, flying out to a story, getting the feel of a place, getting the old background and the new angle and then not being able to squeeze it all into the pathetic time the ITA allows for current events.

And Granada and Thames are the lucky ones. The other ITV companies have no regular current affairs allocation on the network witness the sorry run-around the ITA gave Yorkshire Television when it wanted to get into the field. Last night "This Week" went over the Arab-Israeli problem with reporter Llew Gardner investigating the hardening of the Israeli position. Each day Israeli soldiers are killed but, like the United States with the Vietnam war, people evidently now point out that more are killed on the roads in Israel than in any fights with Arabs. With the passing of time since the end of the six-day war two years ago in June the Israelis have become apparently less willing to negotiate and, furthermore, have taken many steps to entrench themselves physically in the captured Arab territory.

We saw pictures of new housing estates built on Arab land in Jerusalem and saw a road under construction, both projects designed by Israelis but built by Arab labour. Gardner's commentary seemed to go further than merely recording what was happening and seemed to hint that to use Arab labour was somehow shameful. I presumed it was a job that the Arabs were glad to get However, the point the programme ultimately made was the remoteness of any solution. Gardner seemed to be trying to communicate a liberal peace-loving reporter's despair over a situation of which he cannot see the end. In this, at least, the programme worked.

John Wayne and Rock Hudson tn The Undefeated Midnight and high noon DEREK MALCOLM reviews neut filins THE word masterpiece is already ringing in our ears about John Schlesinger's first American movie, Midnight Cowboy, which comes to the London Pavilion almost stale from the accolades that have pursued it relentlessly across the Atlantic. One recalls similiar immediate reactions to the overblown and flashy Darling and is suitably forewarned. Like "Darling-" this story of a penurious young blade who arrives in New York the confidence of his single conviction that he's one helluva guy in bed has all the trappings of a film made for its time, swingingly right for the second half of 1969. Perhaps, however, it's an easier time to make films, or at least more genuine in its passion for sophisticated verismo. "Midnight Cowboy" is a very very much better piece of work than Darling not perhaps a masterpiece of the cinema but Schlesinger's personal masterpiece all the same.

It deserves at least half the adjectives pouring forth about it from those in the business who were scared silly about the making of it in the first place. It frequently cuts deep and accurately into the truth, as much in its minor as in its major details. Strange how a visitor to a house can interpret the tensions of its occupants more clearly than can its occupants themselves. This Is really Schlesinger's achievement. He has caught on film a slice of America as well, if not better, than one had any right to expect.

The slice he has chosen is predictably from the underside of the Joint John- Voight's absurd embryo stud is a drop-out trying to drop-in, a deprived semi-adult whose muscular good looks he rightly assumes to be the only possible passport to success in the rat-race he is hopefully trying to join. But at least he is better off than the crippled Ratso (Dustin Hoffman), a sleazy little Bronx pickpocket who first cons and then befriends him when things go badly wrong. Ratso is the original no-hoper the sort of dust any society would sweep under the carpet since there is no possible way of reclaiming it. The two are shown to be in desperate need of each other, and it is a superbly observed relationship not only because this so but because the hideous hollowness of the world they battle with is so clearly painted as well. We can identify with them without false sentimentality.

Both performances are remarkable, though Hoffman's is perhaps the more manufactured, very slightly soft at the centre. Voight perfectly illustrates the words of Nilsson's haunting theme-song "Everybody's talking at me, can't hear a word they're saying, only the echoes of my mind." Occasionally the use of flash-backs is insecure and the film, though expertly made, is not without its self-indulgences. But it remains for the most part very fuuny, very sad, and very true a valid comment firmly fixed in its particular time and place but transcending both, as all good movies should, through its understanding of its real raw material people. "They don't make Westerns like that anymore," someone remarked as they issued forth from the Leicester Square, where Andrew McLaren's The Undefeated has just settled in for what looks like a longish stay. But then, let's face it.

John Wayne has never been a midnight IOP jEKWALLACE Madeleine Renaud RENAUD gave a per-; 'maryellpus performance, nearly hours at the Rbyar Court itfjit this enigmatic' but fascinating drama' by Margue'ril Duras K'(Whose AflajRg. in the trans-' dilated, we wijh Ashcrof t) lp' 1 ''don't; Want make contention 'twixt man 'and but I must Say that while Barratilt is giving Rabelais the atl.the National Theatre with paraphernalia of "total theatre" at the Court managed to us in pinrop hypnotic trance Mth; hardly more than a dozen move-merits, of the hands' the whole evening Her but all her ptecjse control of inflection, "are what vi-Work' the miracl'e-ahd what makes her 'Winnie in Happy Days" (ah, les Beaux Jours), which do not miss either. p' fiink -a' ciue is permissible here. L'amante anglaise could fivmeah'-r" The English lover," but it may YS'JuaJly mean a plant, English Mint ffipnehttie) which plays a big part in or partial unravelling xSio'f a mystery. This woman Clair Lannes 'G loved her garden.

She loved many things and at least one man desper- ately, a policeman from Cahors. But she didn't love her husband or the fleshy deaf mute cousin (female) whom they had working for them as a cook. Yet why' did she murder Madness? -Disgust masse de viande 1 A desperate effort' to make something really occur in a life that was. lived' almost entirely in seclusion, in fantasies, which included murder? The early scene shows Jean Servais as the more or less puzzled husband giving Then Mme Lannes takes the- stand a new interrogator begins' (Michael Lonsdale) and Mme Renaud begins to work her spell an almost motionless mouse transfixed in the limelight; We. Jcnow lot from the foreword in any case it Is true story of crime or.

at least psychological probing of such which came to light when cut-up pieces oi a human body found in widely dispersed railway trucks were matched up into the headless body of a woman. The police painfully researched all the journeys' made by the trains in question and found that they all had in common the fact of having passed under a certain railway bridge at Viorne. Mme. Lannes confessed at once. But the why and the hiding place of the severed head of these the authoress has teasing and elliptical information to impart.

I daresay that as theatre most people: might still well prefer "Mary Duggah or "'Madame But if this is not theatre it is something remarkably dramatic. And there is much curious in it, the prisoner wondering if her husband will put up the house for auction and neighbours come and pry. But the glimpses into this poor thing's closed world arc all and everyone poignantly illuminated. Superb acting. man she observes sitting gloomily in the rain outside.

She finds that he refuses to speak but accepts being bathed, clothed, fed, and generally pampered as if he can hardly believe his luck. What worries him is that he might be seduced between all the small talk she also lavishes upon him. We soon discover that the boy (Michael Burns) can speak perfectly well out of the spinster's range, has a job trying to ward off the attentions of his sister and is in a general state of indecision hovering between Miss Dennis and a vaguely hippie homelife. What the fable is meant to signify escapes me, but it does look as if Mr Altman has got somewhat confused by the necessity to make a film with sell as well as soul. What could have been nicely observed story about the meeting, if not the mating, of two lonely people becomes a positive compendium of trendy side-kicks.

Sandy Dennis is often very touching, the boy is good in a fey way and there are some nice portraits of Canada's more conventional citizenry. Up to half way, in fact, things go rather well but after that they not only get sillier but nastier. cowboy. He exists in broad honest daylight or not at all. And this is a good old John Wayne epic, certificate and all, which as the posters say traverses "2,000 miles of thundering adventure." After Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" it's like a particularly innocent children's game.

Andrew McLaglen direcls this tale of a Federal and a rebel colonel heading West after Lee's surrender. The Fed (Wayne) is off to round up wild horses for the army, the Reb (Rock Hudson behind huge sideburns and a moustache) leads a party of men, women, and children towards Mexico. The Blue and the Grey meet, feud, save each other from redskins and bandits and finally unite in the trek back home to face the New America. All good and certainly clean fun if you can be persuaded to do without your usual doses of sex and violence, and I suppose I should welcome it with open arms. But I can't.

We are in the country Ford trod better, nice as the scenery is. Still, Wayne is Wayne and there isn't a Doris Day in sight to worry Mr Hudson. It is very presentable to look at too. I feel churlish but there you are. Still there is the other side of the coin to be considered and that is pretty much in evidence in Carol White's first American venture.

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (New Victoria). Curiously enough, she plays a girl called Cathy who emigrates to San Francisco, the poor cow, and gets embroiled with a predatory psychotic determined to make her kill her baby because she has an abortion to get rid of his. John Wayne wouldn't have gone near it and Miss White was surely very ill advised. There's something very odd too about Robert Altman's That Cold Day in the Park, which can shortly be seen at the Gala Royal, Edgware But least Commonwealth United's first presentation is a great deal better handled for most of the way. Sandy Dennis plays a 32-year-old Canadian spinster who invites into her comfortable household a strange young Albert Hall MEIRION BOWEN Deep Purple ATTEMPTS to unite European "classical" music with Jazz, or.

oop evoke as much excitement as do trial matings of giant pandas, and the results are just as often Wednesday's concert at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of Task Force (an organisation in which the young help tht old and needy) featured the premiere of a Concerto for Group and Orchestra by Jon Lord, organist" of. the Deep Purple, and, in spite of several failings, makes quite an impressive. It's enormously long three exterJded movements, giving the orchestra: and group plenty of opportunity to interact and display their individual personalities. The work attempts to present the forces as antagonists in the first movement, and subsequently, as collaborators in improvisation, as well as friendly competitors. In' the event, the group comes over most powerfully, for the orchestra when' it isn't playing very Sibelius or Mahlerlike music (Lord employs an enormous band, including 8 horns and lots of percussion) doesn't really have any distinctive dialogue with the group.

With some splendid contributions from the lead guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, vocalist Ian Gillan (whose folk-melody dominates the slow movement), and whizz drummer Ian Paice, the group makes certain that its own purple patches, as it were, are what remain foremost in the memory. Malcolm Arnold conducted, and the RPO responded enthusiastically. Birmingham GERALD LARNER Louis Fremaux OF THE THREE provincial orchestras recently in search of a conductor, the City of Birmingham is the first to have found one While the Halle and Bournemouth are still looking round, the CBSO opened its new season with its new conductor in the town hall. Birmingham, last night. Louis Fremaux celebrated the occasion by giving this country its first hearing of the Cinq Metaboles by a compatriot and contemporary of his Henri Dutilleiix, beginning the concert with Britten "Young Persons Guide," which is what contemporary British music means to most foreign conductors, and ending it with another French work, another show piece, the John Voight and Dustin Hoffman MANCHESTER CINEMAS THEATRES LONDON THEATRES LONDON OPERA AND BALLET VkTk.

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2.0, 5-UO. 8.0 and 12.0. Suns, at 4.0 and 7.30. ENDON. Nr.

Stoke on Trnt. Palnt-Potterv. Sculpture and blamed Glas at DUNWOOD HLL. Nr. Kmlon.

(on A53 between Leek 'and En don 1 Irani Sept. 2" to Oct. 26. oil iew Thursdays. Srtlurd.iy 3 p.m.

ro 7 p.m.: Sundays 3 p.m. to ft p.m. to Benefit th Artft General Benevolent Institution, Burlington Houe. London, 1. ROYAL COURT (SIo 1745).

trenrh Repertory Srtiwin. 1'nt 7.30. 8. Sat. 5.

8.30 MADLLLINE RF.N-MJD In OH LES BEAUX JOURS lout. 1-n. Oct. 3. 4 atut L'AMANTE ANGLAISE I omnr.

Mon, Turs. Wed) DUCHESS (83b 8243). 8. Sat. 6.

8.30 Thur. 3. "This merry musical." EN. DAMES AT SEA JOYCE BLAIR IS SUPERB. rimes SHELIA WHrrE A GREAT COMIC DISCOVERY." Pfoole.

JUimday Oct. 16. Saturday, Not. 2 7.30. Sats.

5 and 8 I GRAHAM CROW-DEN JOHN WOOD LEON KRD SACH5 Dll.YS HMLETT COUNTRY MATTMI World Premiere at Comedy br Ronald Harwood Prtcea 176. 126. 76. Now Booking SAVILLE Urni 401 1 1. Lvgs.

8. 5. Lcunaitl Hussiter Tha inot vtvttl tuiiipflling and bills rfous acting on thr LoniJon 5 Tel, ARTURO UI Ky Bin in A triumph." Observer ARTHUR MILLER'S THE PRICE FREE TRADE HALL MANCHESTER Bolton SAVOY (Irm 8888. r.vg. 8.

Sat. 5 A- Mil Wed. ir'ceil prices) GREC. SON-ni WillMin D.mul.is liiuiie'N THE SECRETARY BIRD I tt-mflv t-itimy." Min. limm.

BETHNAL GREEN MUSEUM. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM I Watercolouts, prints, and drawings. Council Exhibition. TtU Nov. 2.

Wkday? 10-6. Sun. 2 30-6. Adm 2- HAYWARD GALLERY (Arts Council). South Bank.

CHARLES 81EDER-MAN. Retrospective with Structurist Works. Aam. 01-. Also POPULAR PAINTINGS Irom Haiti Crom the Bachmann Collec.

Adm. 4-, tlli Oct 2i. 10-6 10-8; So. 12-6 ICA. Nash Housi.

Th Mall. S.W.I. (930 0493). WHEN ATTITUDES BECOME FORM New Art for England. US and the Continent.

Last 2 days. 11 a.m. lo 10 p.m. IVEAGH BEQUE5T. Ktnwood Hamp stead Line.

NW S. Paintings by PHILIP MERC1ER (1689-1760). 29 luly2B September. Open 10-7. Sun.

2-7. Aamfision Free. Nearest itns. Golder's Green, Archway. 210 bus.

LEICESTER GALLERIES. 22A Cork 5tnt. W.I Recent works by rRA.NCES RICHARDS, paintops by TIMOTHY GIBBS Sats. VO-l LONDON ARTS GALLERY 22 New Bond Street. 1.

(01-493 0646). TOULOUSE-LAUTREC LithOBraphs, MAX ERNST Colliig.es. Ooen dally 10-6. Saturday 10-1. MARLBOROUGH FINE ART (LONDON) LTD.

MARLBOROUGH NEW LONDON GALLERY, 1718 39 Old Bond 1. On view pafntinqs drawing by Romberg. Cottlirb. Kirchncr. Motherwell.

Priltcln. Rothko. Schlele A others. Daily 10-5. Sats.

10-12. As from Sept 24. ROBERTS GALLERY. 347 Uppsr St Angtl Islington. N.I.

Paintings by JAMES HARDY until October 18. ROWAN GALLERY. Ala Bruton Place. London IV. 1.

493 37-7 Daily 1 0-6 Sats. 10-1. MICHAEL CRAIG MARTIN Sculpture. ROYAL ACADEMY. French Paintings slnct 1900.

Admission 6-. Season tickets 15-. 8tB Painting tor Public Places. Admission 4f-. Students and Pensioners bait price for both 10-6- Sundays 2-6.

12th SEASON FORTUNE (Trm 2238- RM Prir Prvws. to Sat. 8.15 THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE nv comedy bv Alun Owfn. Opens Mon. next a 7-30.

OCTAGON THEATRE. (Bolton Until Satunlav, September 27 CHARLIE CAME TO OUR TOWN A play with music by Alan Plater. NfQhlly at 7.30. except Mondays. CINECENTA.

Leicester Sguara. iyio 0651 1. THERESE AND ISABELLB (X). 2. THE LIBERTINE (X).

3. THE SINNERS lLa Pi-cine) Colour. Sex is not a sin, murdei (s. Alain Delun. It a my IllrMn.

Mmirk'n Ronet. THE GRADUATE (X). Seat irom 126. Props, daily 1-3-5-7-D-l) o.m. Sunday 3-5-7-9-11 p.m.

SHAF I ESBURY THEATRE. 83b 659b. HAIR Lt'). In. h.ii.

D.5U A 8.4U. M-igmli -rut, irresistible." I'ruple. lr storm rr." Miudav Mirror. SIR ADRIAN BOULT THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9.

7.15 p.m. Llnar. Beethoven. Walton MARIA DE LA PAU. YAN PASCAL PAUL TORTELIER GARRICK item 4601).

tvrmnns 8.0. Mat. Thur. 3.0. Sat.

5.45 unit 8.40. TOM COURTENAY ami 1ULIET MILLS SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Limited season. Must end Sat. Oct. 11.

EMPIRE. Ltlc. 5q. (Ger. 1234).

Alan Bates. Dirk Bogarde, THE FIXER (X). Pcrfs. 2.30. 8.

Lte. Sat. 11.30. ESSOLDO. Chelsea.

352 7488. ISADORA CA). Sep. perfs. 1.50.

5.40. 8.30. Advance BookinQ Offic 352 4187. LEIC. SQ.

TH. (930 5252). OLIVER 1 6 OSCARS inc. Best Pet re. Sep.

erfs. 3.30. 7.45. Sun. 4.

7.45. ate show Sat. II. IS p.m. Bookable.

ODEON. Leicester Square. (930 6111) John Wayne. Rock Hudson THB UNDEFEATED (U). Col.

Cont. rrnns. 1. 3.10. 5.40, 8.15.

LaU show Sat. 11.15. ODEON, Havmartctt (930 97382771). PfU-r O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn tn THE LION IN WINTER (AT. CoT.

Winnci ot three Oscars, Including Brt Actress Award. Sep. pert. 2.30. 8.0- Sun.

4. 8. Lata show Sat. 11.30 p.m. Bookable.

ODEON. Marble Arch (723 2011. Now in 70mm. splendour. GONl WITH THE WIND (A.

Sep. perl. 1.45. 7. Sun.

6. ODEON. St Martin's Lam. 836 Jb9t. LM wrrk Hu-1 Sleiprr, Claire Bloom.

Judy Gerton 3 INTO 2 WON'T GO (X). Tcth. Cont. Prog. 3.

5.30. 8. PARAMOUNT. Lower Rtgent Street (839 b494). OHI WHAT A LOVELY WAR I -).

bep. pert, dally 2.30. 8.1 Sdl. p.m. Sun.

4.30, 8.0. AH scat bookable. Advance booking othn- open It a.m. to 7 p.m. except Sunaaii.

PLAZA. Piccadilly Circus. 930 8944. GOODBYE COLUMBUS (X. Tctb.

Prous. 2.0. 4.10. 6.20. 8.35.

PARIS-PULLMAN (He 5898). CAP- 5L9ii5SUMMER A)- FRENCH CAN CAN (A). 2.55, 4.15. 7.25. PRINCE CHARLES.

Ltlc. Sq. (Ger. 8181). Ldt 2 Weeks.

THE KILLING OF SISTER OEORCE (X (London). Sep. perfs. 2.30. 6.15.

9. Lte. shvt. t-ri. Sat.

11.30 P.m. Sun. 5.30. 6.15. 9.

Alt scats bookable. RITZ (Ger. 1254). WHERE EAGLES DARE (A). Progs.

2. 5. 8. Utt int. 11.10.

STUDIO ONE. Oxford Circus. Walt DNiu-y- THE LOVE BUG (U). Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (UK 12.45. 5.10.

5.40, 8.10. WARNER (437 3423). THE WILD BUNCH X. Tech. 70mm, Sep.

pert, weekdays 2.30, 8.0. Lata shows Frl. Jt: Sat. 11.30 p.m. Suns.

A. 7.45. All Mt bookable. Lie. lor.

Tht Madwoman of Challlet tU (mm Ort. 51t, Sep. parts. Now hookabl. WINDMILL.

IGrr SWEDISH FANNY HILL fXl A I. A VIRGIN (XL 11. 20. 12.50, 4.15. 7.40.

and 11.15 p.m. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 7 p.m. Concerto Grow In minor. HANtlliL Also Sprach STRAUSS The Rite ol Spring.

STRAVINSKY Crewe CREWE THEATRE 0270-55620 Tnnlnht at 7.30. OH! WHAT A LOVELY TUM' A MAN FOR ALL SUNDAY. OCTOBER 12, 7 p.m. DANIEL BARENBOIM Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER PINCHAS ZUCKERM AN GLOBE itier.

15921 Evas. 8.15. sat. 6. 8.30 Celebrate with sexy Sam'." SUN.

DUDLEY MOORE PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM CLASSIC. Baktr St. (Wei 8836). Richard Burton. Lliiabeth Iciylor.

DOCTOR FAUSTUS fX) 1.5 'i-41 4.50. 6.55, 9. Late Mm 11-15 Tctcr Sellers, Two Way Stretch (U). ANDREW CRUICKSHANK In "A iuli niim-ilv S. I'lm THE CRUNCH t-ruicKMiiiiik excels the stai i-.

tlu thing." D. Tel. crv luuny." D. Mirror. Keswick bEASON TICKIiTS from 3 10a NOW ON SALE PROSPECTUS NOW ON SALE 3- post free.

Hall Box OBlce. 11 Cross Street. Manchester M2 IWE. Tel. 061-834 1712.

CENTURY THEATRE. HEADS LANE. KESWICK. Sept. 26 A 27.

Evas a IS A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE by Arthur Miller Booking at Moot Hall Klok. Market Square. Keswick. Tel, 73282. STRAND (lrm 2660).

Evgs. 8.15. Sat. O. 8.4U.

Wed. 3. rcd'd prices 5s-20. DEREK PARR JOE BAKER NOT NOW. DARLING AN EVENING OF NON-STOP LAUGH I ER." S.

Lad. A BRILLIANT SUCCESS." S.T. tfnd Year. HER MAJESTY'S. (Whl 6606.) Evqs.

7.30. Mats. Wed. and Sat. 2.30.

tWed. mats, reduced prices 51- to 25'-.) LEX GOUDSMIT la tha world's greatest musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF with HY HAZELL. Directed and Chorwgraphed by JEROME ROBBINS FINEST MUSICAL SINCE MY FAIR LADY." News of the World. MANCHESTER FESTIVAL Helfits' magnificent film of Chekov't lonych." Late film 11.35; Vivien Leigh. ANNA KAREN I NA (A).

CLASSIC. Chtlua. (35V 4388). Haul Newman COOL HAND LUKE (A). Late Film 11.15: HUSH.

HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE (X). CLASSIC. Hampstead. (794 4U0O) David Hcmmlnns THE BEST HOUSE IN LONDON (X). U7 Tajrloi BUTTERFIELD 8 (X).

Liverpool FROM POLAND WITH ART THEATRE UPSTAIR5 ROYAL COURT iSlo. 2554. Evgs. 8. Sat.

8.30. DEAR JANET ROSENBERG DEAR MR KOONING. PLAYHOUSE. Tel. 051-703 8363.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINT1R1 IN WATER COLOURS 26 Conduit Strtet, W. 1. Autumn Exhibition until Sept. 27. Dally 10-5.

Sat. 9.50-12.30. HAYMARKET (Whl. U832). 7.4i, Sat.

3.0 ft 8.15. Mats. Wed. 2.30. DOUGLAS RAIN tn PETER LUKE'S HADRIAN VII CLASSIC.

Waterloo Stn. (928 4325). VAUDEVILLE (Tem. 9987). Evgs.

8. Th. 2. .50. Sats.

at 5 A 8. Leslie Phillips. Diane Hart, Drrmot Walsh. THE MAN MOST LIKELY TO Srcond Yrar. POLI5H PANTOMIME THEATRE Virile art form Daily Tetepraph.

More muscular and vireral than much modern dane." Ctiidrdiati. THIS OVH HOUSE. 0M-R34 1787. NEXT WEEK GATEW.V THEATRE. CHESTER.

0244 40393. LABORATORY THEATRE ALL SEATS SOLD. LONDON CLUBS Nottingham HOTTINOTHAM5PLfVOU Ecnlno 7.30Snlurdar nd WIOOWEFtV HOUSCt THE HERO RISES UP wiiii uMirawi nsiruL uc dul LARS (A) 633 SQUADRON (A). CURZON (499 37.17). com) Patty Duke In ME.

NATILlE Col. 3.5. 4.L". 6.0. 8.40.

Lt. Sat 11 p.m. LAST 7 DAYS. DOMINION. Tott.

Ct. Rd (5KU y.Soj), BATTLE OF BRITAIN (Ui Th. Sep. perfs. 2.30.

8. Sun. 4, 8. Bkle. LAM DA.

rises (off Earls Ct. Rd) 373 7017. David HalUwell's K. D. Dutford Brimming with oogolesaue comic fnsticiai." Time.

Vividly conceived." Teu Fitting F. TtoWB. 8 until Srpt, 27. Full detail other festival even the renlon from NOItlH Wrsr ARTS ASSOCIATION. 44 Backville Street.

Manchester 1. Tel. 061-236 9958. THE BACHELORS Summer Fprctaculur with OlrW Km.ry. trfddt.

Davl.i Latt 6 wtrkt. Must terminal. Nor. I. EDMUNDO ROS' CLUB for dinner dancing, lo cabarrt Antpj1! Varto, Ballil Einaanol.

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