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Thursday January 1 1970 ARTS GUARDIAN accidentally into the festival like flot-i sam from the past it bears so little relation to current themes. Written by an older dramatist, David Compton, and performed by Newcastle University, it is a delicately etched cameo of two spinster sisters. The tension between their characters is sharply defined. The elder pins down the younger with her steely, little will. The younger remains subject and administrative for all her imperious lift of an eyebrow.

The plot springs from the past, the time when a lover left. There is a deft back sequence to find why he left, to try to keep him. Then back to the present and refusal to acknowledge the truth. Direction by Philip Roberts accentuates the time lapse -with old-fashioned stills. But the acting is probably what carried this curio into' the finals.

For a student, Liza Flanagan makes a frail and quavery 76-year-old. Her little voice pipes on persistently, while Suzanne Kaytian moves stiff and, full-bodied round her. Night closed with Leicester' Polytechnic's "The Golden Thread," an impudent commentary on the Victorian era. Young Eric, played by ebullient Fenella Hill, is conceived ss a fairy tale hero and journeys to the light through quotes from such sources as an upper-class book of etiquette and Lord Shaftesbury's commission into coalmines. Deliberate bathos sets a solemn school chorus into high kicks and takes the quiet micky out of G.

A. Henty heroics. Though more ironical documentary than original drama, the play tries and carries through a fresh interpretation. Unexpectedly, it eomes from collaboration between Kevin West, a student of interior design, and Michael Milford, a student of ceramics. Things are looking up.

We regret that Braham Murray was referred to as Graham Murray in yesterday's notice from the festival No mean museum Television OLIVER PRITCHETT The Fabulous Elvis AFTER ALL the self-indulgent, arbitrary agonising over the departed sixties television has been dishing up over the past few days, BBC-2 last night supplied the consolation prize A Timeless Certainty. Elvis. He lias survived the decade and more. He was going before the Snowdons' marriage, before Malcolm Muggeridge heard the call, earlier than the Kennedies, before all the other landmarks of the sixties television has given us. Last night's NBC production "The Fabulous Elvis showed him miraculously the same.

He hasn't aged a day. There are the same surly, sleepy-eyes, the old leather pelvis, the hair only slightly less bouffant, and the same old sideburns. For the first twenty minutes he roamed the tiny stage and delivered the old songs from Heartbreak Hotel to All Shook Up and "Love Me Tender." It was marvellous stuff, performed with a faint hint of self-mockery and with the girls in the audience (looking smarter and older now) still offering their hankies for him to mop his brow. The only aberration in the show occurred when Presley attempted to abandon soulfulness and try soul, and the director weighed in svth absurdly lush choreography and ludicrous choral throbs. Before the Scots took over at about midnight, New Year's Eve television had a strong American element.

Earlier on BBC-l; Bob Hope and Bing Crosby made nonsense of the decade with their old partnership and their old gags. Meanwhile "Man Alive" presented "The Celluloid Tycoon," a portrait of Bryan Forbes, the chief executive of Hie Associated British Picture Corporation and the man set the task of reviving the British film industry and fighting off US film imperialism. It was a competent obeisance, and a fair picture of a man and his good intentions up against a mountain of administration. My only hope, for the sake of the Brtish film -industry, is that if Bryan Forbes ever gets handed a script like Man Alive's breathlessly cliche-ridden effort last night, he will reject it instantly. RAYMOND GARDNER on the Glasgow People's Palace Exhibits from the museum.

Above The Last Tram by R. H. Wyllie right the inter-section of Argyll Street, Jamaica Street and Union Street, circa 1394 THERE IS a half gale blowing up the Clyde and across Glasgow Green the other half is circulating inside the People'js Palace where the heating system looks and sounds as though it were installed when the building was erected in 1898, and threatens imminent explosion if pushed above 59 degrees. The Palace, which houses the old Glasgow museum, was built out of the common good fund, and a canny corporation had the Caledonian railway company pay for the privilege of dumping its excavations from Queen Street station tunnel in the Green, thus saving the cost of laying foundation ballast. Penny-pinching or not, the museum survived.

Robert Wilkie, its curator for the past four years, smiles distantly at the corporation subsidy and talks of museums as the step-children of local government." After all, the corporation has spent a great deal of money furnishing a museum of transport with old trams, wagons, and railway locomotives, and, as Mr Wilkie points out, the drivers who bring these items up from Crewe by road are paid 25s an hour, "it being a very responsible job." All of which goes some way to explaining the antiquarian heating and the rolled up newspaper blocking a cracked window in his room. It does not help to explain the wealth of history which the museum contains; for although tie People's Palace does not boast the finest collection of anything at an international level, it is probably the most comprehensive city museum in Britain, tracing the grdwth of a great industrial city of the new world from Roman times until the present day, in maps, models, paraphernalia, and strange tableaux. Glasgow has always had a housing problem, a situation immortalised as was everything else bad about this cityin "No Mean City." There was the single end," a one-room home with its great iron range and huge recessed bed which managed to take all the family no matter how prolific, the cold tap if you had been modernised" and the leaking spicket on tne 'stairheid" alongside the inevitable communal toilet if you weren't. Just in case any of Glasgow's twentieth-century children should forget their heritage they have built a replica of the single end complete with a pair of rarely ugly wally cats in the museum. i To keep the workers in their place and perhaps to confirm that No Mean City was written by what Mr Wilkie likes to describe as a gentleman from the more sensational press there is also a complete Victorian 1 drawing room with abominable fruit, aspidistras, and gruesome stuffed birds in glass domes.

It is difficult to work out which was the greater hell. Unlike the predictable academic progression from early civilisation to modern times, which you might expect, the Palace houses the bric-a-brac of history brought in by the people for whom it was built from the collection of clay pipes donated by a retiring tobacconist to the valuable Roman coin found by a boy digging his fitter's garden. Amid the splendid emblems, crests, and heraldry of a long deceased Glasgow nobility are sandwiched the fading prints of old Glasgow and its worthies. There is Big Rachel Hamilton, a braw 6ft. 4in.

weighing in at 17 stone, the terror of the Partick drunks whom she used to haul into gaol on Saturday nights in her r61e as a special constable. A forewoman navvy at Jordan Hill brickworks and a labourer in the shipyards she had a particular dislike for bad language among her workmates and she was not against putting them in the river for their trouble. She died in 1898 at the age of 70, quite a feat in the Glasgow of those days. Some say that the undertaker had to hew a hole in her house wall to get the coffin out. But pride of place must go to wee Jamie Wallace, Glasgow's embryonic trade unionist who appointed himself leader of the porters at the Caledonian fruit market and persuaded the owners to subscribe a penny to the workers' welfare fund for every box and barrow moved.

Wee Jamie could not read or write and used to trundle round the market all day marking crosses in his notebook. He could evidently count. The tradition continues today. Naturally enough, one section of the museum is given over to Jimmy Logan's collection of Harry Lauder's Gear," ranging from his stubs of Leichner 5 and 9, to his shoes, to his walking sticks, to his Macpherson kilt funny really," said Mr Wilkie, since he was an Irishman And there is Lauder's piano, lovingly polished, and still fit to waken a Cew old ghosts with a bar or two from Roaimn' in the Gloamin'." But if the old Glasgow museum excels in anything it is its collection of etchings and old photographs like the one showing Irish navvies laying the tram lines around King Billy's statue in the Tron-gate They moved King Billy to a less conspicuous site outside the Cathedral where, high on the hill, his horse's tail can be seen swaying wanly on stormy nights and many a reveller has been sworn off the hard stuff by the sight, not knowing that the sculptor set the tail on a ball and pivot. From the ease of bygones," however, comes the plum, a crude metal head-shaped cage with a horrific spike which was locked in place over the heads of nagging scolds preparatory to their ducking in the pond.

I hear tell that it is sadly out of use. Queen Elizabeth Hall EDWARD GREENFIELD English Chamber Orchestra AN END of the decade frolic at the Queen Elizabeth Hall from the English Chamber Orchestra, -with Daniel Baren-boim, believe it or not, attempting among all his other exercises a reincar- nation of the lamented Hoffnung. If anyone was going to revive Francis Chagrin's Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra, originally a Hoffnung vehicle, it surely had to be this most versatile musician of the decade, a man equally at home as concerto soloist or conductor. One knew that conductors had to be gymnastic, but with Barenboim required to conduct -with his feet at one point and to quell the recalcitrant pianist in a duel of violin bows up and down the gangways, this was young man's music-maKing in every sense. So was Donald Swann's arrangement of Haydn's 94th Symphony, with rather more surprises in it than usual, and Jacqueline Du Pre joining the wood- wind line (what was all that about the Musicians' Union and soloists?) with a pocket-sized recorder and a dotty solo to herself.

Wisely, the first half of the concert avoided this sort of froth, with the best-loved items from Schubert's Rosamund-e leading to three charming concertante pieces normally too short to justify a soloist according to modern concert economics. On a gala occasion they were doubly welcome, for Jacqueline Du Pre played Dvorak's two haunting pieces for cello and orchestra, Waldesruhe and Rondo, and Pinchas Zukerman, the newly-elected member of the Barenboim entourage, came on to dazzle us with Wieniawski's Concert Polonaise for Violyin and Orchestra. Appearing on stage with the gait of a prize-fighter, and drawing open laughs from the audience (very rightly) for the cheeki-ness of his playing, Zukerman is, an endearing comic as well as a -dominating artist. A pity he did not join the others in the high jinks of the second half. The Bolshoi in Paris Charles Osborne on the Russian operas Manchester MERETE BATES National Student Drama Festival AT LAST THE FROZEN, didactic tirades are melting at the National btuaent Drama Festival in Manchester a little- blood is tingling in the veins.

Students polish off a collapsing discussion on an empty play and disappear upstairs to make their own workshops and this at 2 a a.m. They seeth with politely restrained impatience through an official workshop that tries tq resurrect the theme. Rightly, they1 reject fellow student dramatists who are only exercising their own personal hell-pots. These reactions are percolating through to the performances. There is more spontaneity, less restriction and self-consciousness.

Actors are beginning to let go, even to enjoy themselves. And the plays have more imagination. From Out of a Box (Leicester University) could be a lecture on imperialism, but the author, George MacEwan Green, has the wit and humour to resurrect the characters from a box of toys in a Victorian attic Tin soldier, golliwog, doll, and monkey tell the gay and amusing story of a Victorian family. But there comes a sudden unexpected plunge into reality the soldier murders the Negro who loves his sister. And then back to the toys.

The balance of the trivial to the central passion was perhaps wrong you wish the main theme could have been developed but the angle was unexpected and striking. Time Exposure could have drifted ova whom, after I had decided to accept her reedily Slayic timbre, I found most exciting. But the two great relevations of that evening were the mezzo Tamara Siniavskaya (Konchakovna) whose hard, metallic yet undeniably attractive voice has no equivalent in the West, and the tenor Evengi Eaikov (Galitski) who was simply magnificent in the manner of the young Bjdrhng. Raikov also sang Dimltn in the performance of Boris I attended, in which everything was first-rate with the exception of the Boris himself, Victor Netchipayln, a dull singer and nondescript actor, and the conductor Boris Khaikm, a tired routinier. The version performed was Rimsky's, with the first Polish scene missing, and the last two scenes of the opera in the wrong order.

THE CURKENT visit of the Bolshoi Opera to the Paris Opera House, which opened last week, continues until January 25. The Russians have brought the five most popular operas in their national repertory in predictably lavish and realistic stagings, and with 34 of their principal singers thus expensively ensuring that each opera has three or four alternative casts. I left Paris before the most eagerly awaited of their three Boris Godunovs Krivtchenia had made his appearance in the rftle, but caught him as Konchak in Prince Igor: a sonorous bass voice and an arresting stage presence. The Igor was Arthur Eisen, a somewhat unwieldy baritone, and his wife, Yaro-slavna, was sung by Tatiana Tugarin- Of the singers, I must mention Mass-lennikov as the Fool an exemplary interpretation. The production of Eugene Onegin made amends for everything.

This was quite simply the finest performance I have ever heard of this most beautiful and very Russian score and by the most European of Russian composers. It was conducted, with the utmost sensitivity and delicacy, by the cellist Rostropovich, whose wife Galma Vish-nevskaya sang Tatiana. Her performance was so right in every detail, each passing mood of Tatiana so beautifully projected, that it was doubly difficult to forgive her appearing in Act I in modern high heels, particularly since in every other respect the stage picture was at all times so convincing. Onegin was sunn by Yuri Mazurok, a brilliant young baritone, perfectly even from top to bottom of his dark velvet voice Vladimir Atlantov, as Lenski, hegan palely, but sang his aria with fine style and conviction, and led the ensemble at the end of Act IL Scene superbly. Smaller r61es were taken by such first-rate artists as Siniavskaya, Tugarinova, Larissa Avdeyeva and Mikhail Shkaptsov, and the evening's one solecism (a double one Paris) was that Triquet's little song was sung not in French but in Russian, Joining the repertory next week are the remaining two operas, Mussorgsky's Khovantsckina with Irina Archipova as Marfa, and Tcnaikovsk'y Queen of Spades.

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David Nlvto THE DRMN tfj. Proc. 2.0 4.10. 6 20. 8.35.

PRINCE CHARLES LIC. Sq. Ger BIB) Ken Russell ttlm of Lo w- U3l. a.Q3i o.j-3 V1TI ID LUI LONDON OPERA AND BALLET Tonight THE MAGIC FLUTE Frl. THK WVJk Of THREE Bat.

2.30 LUCKY PETER'S JOURNEY 7.30 PATIENCE Seats available rM perfarmancw. COVENT GARDEN. ROYAL OPERA Tonight. Mon. Wed next ot 7 DON GIOVANNI Carble, Vatighnn, HovxeiK Davlea Robinson.

G. Dean, Rouleau. Comt ScmivOw Frl. at 7,30 lmt port of THE GOLDElM COCKEREL Seats BsJICiIe except ton.HHt. COCHRANE 24Z HHOi 2.60 I.U.

THE OWL THE PUSSYCAT Want to Sic. Children's MusIlqI play. COMEDY (VVbJ. 257S) 8 15. hst 6.

8.40 Wed. 2.50. red. prices 5- to 20f-. Peter Bime, Karen Kisscy.

Richard Coleman In Fourth W.ir o( Terence Frisby Comedy THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP Lomion's Longest Running Cometiv Hit I MAY FAIR THEATRE (May 3036) tEvs. 7 30. Frl A. Sac 5.45 8. Ihe new Pianucs musical YOU'RE A GOOD MAN.

CHARLIE BROWN Rare entcrtaintniTit." The Timet. Gay iind w(tc D. Tel Oxford. Road Station App. CEN 6013 FOR MEMBERS ONLY JOIN NOW TODAY A PIECE OF HER ACTION Also PRETTY BUT WICKED Continuous dally from 10 30 to 10 43 Crewe PRINCE OF WALES Whl SbUl).

Evs. S.O. Wen. and Sot. 5.30 8.40 ANTHONY ROBERTS in PROMISES, PROMISES The American SmaEh mr Musical CREWE THEATRE.

0270 SSSJO. Tojt. a'30 D0CTOR CINKCENTA, Ltlc. Sq. (930 06512).

1 SHE AND HE (X. L. Harey. 2 SHE AND HE X). L.

Har.cy. I THE VIRGIN SOLtlCRS (X. 1 THB COMPUCATED GIRL (X). Seats from 126. Prog, dally 1.

3 S. 7. 9. 11 p.ra- Sua. 3.

5, 7. 9. 11. MAY FAIR THEATRE May 3036. Ltmitrd lo Jon 10 at 10 p.m.

OLD TIME MUSIC HALL The only Late entertainment SOT TO RE MISSED Edinburgh QUEEN'S (Hcg. 1166) bios. Saturday 4.0 7.5. Max in AUDLEY, 1'sul IUNES. lercmv CLVDE CONDUCT UNBECOMING Tba best ntiw ploy in Exp.

--a iriumpn. Times. Ttifl hit of the year." People. MERMAID (248 75561 (RcStnU. onlT CRITERION.

(Whl. d216. EvflS at 8. A sat. nt 6,0 nnd 845 SHEILA HANCOCK JOHN THAW.

ANJ BELL nnd PETER BLITHE, tn SO WHAT ABOUT LOVE Fitz vittj upro.irious coiikiH E. NrlVS. VERY. VLR Harold Hob-ji I inici. Late Cinema open to members anrt the public.

Sat. 11 QUATCRMASS EXPERIMENT (X) tlv) WOMtK WITHOUT MEM OO TATTON, Gattir AT IValt Dhow. THfc LOVE BUG (U Tech. 6.10. 40.

cent. 5.3S. a.O Mat, daily tweept Frt 8 15 THIATRI ROYAL CINERAMA 83 9S6G. Must wl Sat, Jau. 10.

THt SOUND OF MUSIC (U- Seo. 7.15. Late show Sat 11.15 B.m. Ltc. Bar.

From Sun. Jan 11 (A). Cinerama cren. Book now. ROYAL LYCEUM, Kalnburati, ctirtot mas Production.

new music! olaj PUSS IN BOOTS." untn Jan. 10: JSI- to 31-, aH liKit. fbUUY MUUN1 RONALD BDD. TOM PALMER. ULMSE LOrrEY an A VI11IN UHVIS In rences women in love x.

Sep. perfs. Z.30. 6 15 'JO LTe Sh. Suo.

3 30. COVEHT GARDEN. BOVAC BALLET Sat. at 2-15 1.30 SWAN LAKE Tup 7.30 Clndertla lew srat liable Tue. (240 1066) TERENCE Fltlm 5 nrw comettr tn- ana aat, m.

si 6.15. 9 0. All See Dkble ROYAL COURT. Sio 1745, Xmas Shows Rachfl Roberts In Th Three Muskiteers Ride Again by and with The Alberta. 7 30 Mat.

Th St Liverpool THE BANDWAGON 1.40 IhUi-9 0 3.40. M'fndecl 7 vas to Inn. 17. DRURY LANE ITcm- SlOSf Eteninas 7.0. Wed.

and Sat. 2.30 and a 0 GINGER ROGERS tn Lawrence am. Li'e-lern Herman MAME Wednesday Mats 2.30. 5f- to 25f-. Good seats mailable hi PLAYHOUSE tel.

051-709 tibi TMt SNOW QUEEN. Mats, dally at U.30. Men to Sat. till Jan. 10.

THE GHOST TRAIN. Eva. at 7.0 Mob. to Sat. until Ian.

17. MERMAID. Man. Iu. Wed.

tn, 5 15. Iti bnt- 11 2.15. Percv H-Thrrt TREASURE i 5 LAND. ST MARTIN'S Clem 1431. Lwt 1 Y.s 8.

Sat. 5 ft 8. Wed 45 ANDREW CRUIKSHANK in Jolli. arccat nmed Vis. THE CRUNCH CLASSIC.

St- 055 8836. THE LOVI hUG lUl. WBlt Qlt lauihlcr ihow lor HI 5 45 6.10. 8-35. CLASSIC.

Norrtno Hill Catt. Lee Mar- vin Jne FoiHo CAT BALLOU CA). COLUMBIA t734 5414). Barbra rei son 1 OSCAR Best Actris I Omar Sharif FUMMY GIRL U). Perfs 2 30.

7 Sun. 4.0. 7.45. EUEUL. lat 7 days.

es Montand "2" tA Prow 1 20. 3 40. 6.10. 8.35 Ite 11. DOMINION.

TOtt Ct Roao OHO yDbJJ. BATTLE OF BRITAIN lO Tech. V. perfs 2-50. 8.

Sun 4 8 Late Sipis Sat. 11.45. All Bookable EMPIRE. tGer. 1234).

Peter O'loola. FVtula Clark. GOODBYE MR CHIPS (Ul Perfs. 2-iO. 8 Late Sat.

11.30. Sua. 4, B. Bootable. DINING OUT RITZ (Ger.

1234). Captain Ntmo and th Underwater Cltv Prns. 1 45. 4.0. 6.20.

8.40 LAST DAN. STUDIO 1 THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES tll. Fti.U Sat Cont Projjs. 12 15. 2 0 5 30 8.10.

WARNER 437 3423 Audrey Hepburn. Hex Harrison MY FAIR LADY U. Terh. 70mcn Sep. Perfi.

Wkdy 3.30 7.45 Late Show Sats. 11.45 P.m. Sun' 3 0 7.15. All Seats Bookabla. Llcrnird Liar.

WINDMILL iGer 7413). Victor Spin-pttl A PROMISE OF MD (X- Renzl A WOMAN NEEDS LOVING OC1. Proa. 2-5. 5 5.

8 5. NEW l83d 38781 Mon to "IhLtr. 7.30 I rl e.tu Sal 5 ml 15 LST 3 T.CKS ANNE OF GREEN GABLES ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL (Wat. 3191). Until Jan.

10 Dally 3.0 and 7. 30 LONDON FESTlAL BALLET In THE NUTCRACKER SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE, Roil btry Av. (837 1672 until Mar 7 Evga. 7.30. Mat.

Weil Sat. 2.30 D'OYLY CARTE tn GILSfcRT SULLIVAN. This v. eek. I olt nth Jan.

5, 6 7: Cox Bo and Pirates of Ptnxanci. DUCHESS 856 8213). UaEly 8 pm. Sat. 5 8.15 Thur.

3 r.m FLORA ROBSjUN, JOW MILLER. IOVCE CAREY "A feast of actlnq." Telegrapb. THE OLD LADIES THE CHRISTMAS THRILLER 1 SAVILLE aem ttuiw 8 Sata. 5 30 ft Mm. Thur 0 ROBIN MAtKiHAM ENEMY Full of Intrrest and Exp, Daily Telesraptu Nottingham NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE.

45671. Evenings 7.30. Sat. 3.0 A 8.0. Tonight Fru, Sat leva THE ALCHEMIST "A delicious comedy Er.

Foac. LLCSMEM RESTAURANT Eaar Lancashire Road. Sainton. EVERV SATURDAY DINING AND DANCING No aatra- charge for dancing. Rcaanallona SWInlon 2330.

aVnnar tirvtd from 7 30 v.m. OPEN SPACE 58k. 4')70 8 D.m. LEONARDO DEMONS De.a:atJnn very funny Indeed D. Mail.

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