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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SATURDAY AUGUST 31 1957 THE HOLIDAY PHOTOQRAPHIC COMPETITION MISCELLANY Edinburgh Festival THE "NUITS D'ETE" OF BERLIOZ A critic's consolation By Neville Cardus relation of speoch-sona to the fully curved lyrical song, with no apparent bridge passages or recitative padding. The poetry and music miraculously saem as though born and shaped simultaneously, so unerrineVy does the music penetrate to the essence of the words, qualitatively and quantitatively, accent for accent, phrase for phrase, heart and pulse beat for heart and pulse beat. Where in music is there a more poignant cry' from the heart than the descending line of melody at tne words, in "Sur-les lagunes," "Ah, sans amour s'en aller sur la mer This wringing of beauty out of nostalgia and sense of less is not surpassed even by Hugo Woli's cry of Oahin in Kennsl du das Land," or bv Isolde's Noch emmal over the dying Tristan. Miss los Angeles sang the songs with exactlv the right tone and touch not too dramatic, not too large in diction. The songs should remain at a certain point of distance from us they should not be swollen into a series of scenas." And it was a pity that applause at this concert broke out to interrupt the tone sequence and momentarily disperse a mood magically evoked.

Applause following Miss los Angeles's rapt evocation Reviens." clairvoyant and far away, was brutal and grievous, yet, no doubt, well-mtentioned. Frankly, 1 was surprised at the fine-spun plajing by the Scottish National Orchestra of the orchestral parts of the songs, parts containing the subtlest throbs of instrumentation, with profound but delicate undercurrents of bass harmonv and texture. The echo of the horn to the voice at the line Ah, sans amour s'en aller sur la mer," the descending cadence, was very beautifully intoned in this memorable performance, which for one listener at least has already made the Edinburgh Festival worth a journey north. Mr Swarowskv, the new conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra, was making his bow to the festival, and right well has he introduced himself The Berlioz settings are entirelv different from the general orchestral idiom that they were plaved with absorbed felicitous touch is proof of Mr Swarowsky's persuasive power, and of the players quickness of sympathetic response. The programme, which included the "Mathis der Maler" symphonv of Hmdc--mith and the Seventh Symphony of Beethoven, was not the least distinguished, bv far.

of the contributions made alreadv to this amazing, exhausting conglomeration From time to time, but not often, the musical critic receives consolation for many hollow days of routine, listening to the same masterpieces, each giving great glimpses of untravelled realms to young people fresh to music. On Wednesday night I was able to hear a composition, a set of songs, which I have not come across at a public concert in a lifetime. I refer to the "Nuits d'Ete" of Berlioz, sung at this Edinburgh Festival in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-seven by Victoria de los Angeles, with the Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky, playing the wonderful orchestral background. The date of this concert really deserves special mention, for the songs are unmistakably works of genius, original to this day, and they are round about a hundred years old, and are in no way dated in technique and processes of musical thinking and shaping. If I am not wrong in my memory (and 1 write without the books to refer to), the Nuits d'Ete were originally composed for piano when Berlioz was in his mid-or-iatish twenties, then revised during his years of maturity, then scored for orchestn.

For once in a while Berlioz compos. with not a single frustration, not a sing'a short-circuiting of imagination. Conception and expression are one and indivisible in these haunting, haunted songs, which, as nowhere else in music, give utterance to the ache for lost or passing beauty, for the unattainable island "Dites, la jeune belle, Oil voulez-vous aller La voile enfle son aile. La brise va soufiler'' One of this cycle. Reviens, reviens ma bien once on a time was as familiar to Halle concert audiences as Haydn's With verdure clad it was then known as Absence." and was presented by Sir Charles Halle, who began a Berlioz tradition in Manchester sustained to the Harty period, during which a Halle audience became acquainted with The Trojans." in a concert performance.

no large surface to cover in the Summer Night cycle, Berlioz is not tempted into rhetorical attitudes and the intensity of Gautier's poetrv leaves him with no surplus of creative power to squander on instrumental experiments. In this dream-world of the spectre of the rose and the white tomb under the shady yew, no temptation lured Berlioz into brassy bombast or a self-conscious attitude of neo-classicism. The French romantic in him, with all the fine sensibility implied by the term, is concentrated to a note in the vocal writing and the orchestration of Les Nuits d'Ete." It is astounding that so long ago Berlioz solved for his purpose the problem of the Two entries in the foreign section the readers' holiday photograph Careworn, taken at Cctara in Southern Italy, by G. B. Arab Child, Acre." from Mi J.

Gross, 56 Warburton, of 507 Plodder Lane, Farnworth, Queen's Avenue, London 10 and Lancashire New Films in London SARTRE'S VERSION OF "THE CRUCIBLE" "The Witches of Salem" By Matthew Norgate Independent Television "SERVING GOD AND CAESAR" MISSES A FINE OPPORTUNITY Poor statement of the Christian dilemma Bv Bernard Levin DR FAZEKAS WINS CHESS TITLE Surprise result From our Chess Correspondent Plymouth, Friday. Dr Stephen Fazekas, a 59-year-old doctor from Buckhurst Hill, Essex, is the new British chess champion. In the last round to-day he won his game against Haygarth in 64 moves. Clarke, Penrose, and Wade shared second place. This result is a great surprise, tor Dr Fazeka.s, a former Czechoslovak international, nas had very variable results in English tournaments.

However, in this event he allied his ingenuity with great solidity and determination, and showed better stamina than his younger rivals during the last five rounds, in which he scored 4J points. To-day he played the Nimzo-Jndian Defence against Haygarth, and had a solid position in the middle game, when Haygarth made a completely unsound piece sacrifice; although he fought on for 64 moves his position was always hopeless. Of the other players with seven points at the beginning of the round Penrose and Clarke had a quiet draw in 20 moves in which Penrose early initiative petered out, and Wade was outplayed in middle game complications against Alexander Barden gradually obtained the upper hand against Mardie, but in time trouble overlooked an ingenious trap and the game was drawn. Other results. Glbbj i2 BeacS 'i, Thomas 2, Mlloer-Hnrry ij Prlichard 1, Jorrn 0.

Franklin 0. Dlduon 1: Bruce 0 Parr I. Lloyd 12, Moore Redo" 0. Naylor 1: Hilion 0 Bcaty 1. Newman t.

Goodman 0. Horseman 1 Lavera 0 Results of adjourned camw Barden O. Penrose 1. Alexander 1 Wood 0. Goudman 0.

Lloyd 1 Hn.il Seorr. Dr Fazekas 8 Clarke Penrose Wade Cafienv Barden 1 Gibr 61 Vearder Mardie Horsenvm. Abrahams. Hayirarih. Beach, Thomas, and Prltchard 6 Milner.Bairy Dickson and Parr 5'j Green and Wood 5 and one adjourned' iarels, Naylor Franklin and Veaman 5 Bruce and' Moore 41a' Beaty.

HJlion and Lloyd Recton 3- Goodmao 22. Levers Miss Sunnocks won the British ladies' championship with nine out of ten. followed by Mrs Bruce with 7J and Mrs Bourdillon and Miss Craker 6i. The British boys championship was won by D. E.

Rumens of Harrow with nine out of twelve. TURKS HONOUR SCOTTISH WAR DEAD The Turkish troops in Edinburgh for the Festival Tattoo yesterday marched to lay a wreath on the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle, as part of the Turkish Army Day celebrations. The Turkish bugle band and cadets oi the Turkish War School were led by the band of the Royal Scots. Unlyrical liberals The news, fifty years ago to-day, that Great Britain had signed a convention with Russia could not have caused muctr rejoicing in Manchester. Readers of the Guardian saw on the same page as this announcement a report that the Tsar had been forced to enter his capital, St Petersburg, unannounced and only after the strictest security precautions, for fear of assassination.

The terms of the convention were not published for another three weeks, and during "this time people had plenty of opportunity to learn more about the country vith which Britain had just reached agreement. Scarcely a day passed without some new story about the terrible struggle between the forces of reaction and revolution which was going on inside Russia. "Jews massacred at "Incendiarism in the provinces," "Political assassination," were only a few of the headlines. The "Manchester Guardian" paid tribute to the people who thouglit it monstrous that this country should negotiate with so reactionary a regime. One editorial began, A liberal cannot grow lyrical over the Convention." Submerged forest Silviculture enthusiasts who live on the shores of the Mersey were more than usually interested in the statement, included in Tuesday's paper, that among the conifers of Britain "only the Scots pine, the yew, and the juniper are indigenous." The record of a submerged forest spreading across the entrance to the Mersey is one ofvthe fascinating facts of local history, and traces can be remembered, although not seen now, both near Formby and Meols.

Probably there were more of these petrified trees on the Cheshire side at Meols, until, some thirty vears ago. they were ripped up when the uarade was extended to link with the embankment from Leasowe. Imported firs The remarkable feature of this forgotten forest was that although cart was self-seeded, in the nature of most primitive forests, another stretch was planted by hand. Towards West Kirby the broad-leaf trees had been obviously self-sown, but towards Wallasey there were conifers, planted fifteen feet apart in almost endless rows. The date of this tree-planting project can only be trie merest conjecture, but it can be said that when the trees were discovered, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were alreadv petrified after lying in the sand and peat for many hundreds of years.

The local' inhabitants soon found that chips from these trees made admirable candles, but enough remained a hundred years ago for the opinion to be formed that the trees were fir. Quite probably the trees were nlanted Roman times, for the legions were very active in this vicinity, and there- is a record of a severe gale affecting the western coast of England in the third century, which could account for their being laid fiat. It is interesting to know that the firs were almost certainly imiported, but from where? PERIOD PIECES What in old England do tourists seek? Tombs and castles of queens and' kings, The old-time inn, and'the shop antique Crammed with a jumble of old-world things In the village forge and the timbered barn, In the Tudor cot where they knock their heads Hangings of linsey-woolsey yarn, Settles and chests and four-poster beds. Tucked away -behind mullioned panes, Georgian silver 'and Toby jugs, Firelocks, lanterns, and spits with chain. Leather bottles and pewter mugs.

Rushlight-holders, Victorian glass. Waxen flowers and lockets of hair. Blunderbusses and knockers of brass. The antimacassar and Regency chair. Candle-snuffers and china plates, Ruffles and buckles and canes and fans.

Corner cupboards and rusty grates, And thousands and thousands of warming-pans. Though all are bought there is never a dearth, But plenty remains for the export trade, And tourists say, though they scour the earth, The best antiques are British made. Mercutio. the Thames Oentral Miniitr; T. B.

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London. SJE. I. and aaoal Tfricct Agena. BLIND CHILDREN GET MANSION Institute plans school A school for blind children who have additional handicaps is to be established at Rushton Hall, near Kettering, after repairs and conversion by the Ministry of Works.

Most of the hall dates from the seventeenth century, but it was begun in 1490 by John Tresham, whose family still owned it at the time of the Gunpowder Plot, in which they were involved. The previous owner, Mr G. Pain, being unable to use the hall, wished to demolish most of it, but as the hall is listed as of special interest under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, it could not be altered or demolished without the consent of the local planning authority and the Minister of Housing and Local Government. After a public inquiry a building preservation order was placed on the hall, and the owner served a notice requiring the Northamptonshire County Council, the planning authority concerned, to purchase it. The Minister of Works agreed to make a grant to the county council of the cost of purchase, and to assume responsibility for the preservation of Rushton Hall.

The Ministry will now let the hall on a Ions lease to the Royal National Institute for the Blind, and it is hoped to have it readv for occupation within about two vears. The total cost of the scheme is estimated at between 85.000 and 90,000. which will be recovered from the National Land Fund. NIGHT SKY IN SEPTEMBER By an Astronomical Correspondent The sketch map shows the planets and brighter stars as they now appear about 11 The stars will all be slightly farther to the west after each complete 24 hours and the map will accordingly show their positions about 10 p.m. around the middle of the month and about 9 p.m.

towards the end. Its centre represents the skv overhead and its circumference is the horizon It should be held vertically with that pom, on its circumference undermost which corresponds to the direction in which the observer is looking. Satuin is now very low in the in the evening. Setting progressively earlier it will disappear about 9 pjn. towards the end of the month.

Venus will continue to set barely an hour after the sun and will be difficult to see spite of its brilliance, while Jupiter is now lost in the evening twilight. The last week of September will afford the best opportunities nf the year- for seeing Mercury as a morning star It will be low in the east before sunrise The Square of Pegasus is the chief feature the east, and shines brightly in the south. The cross of the Swan is overhead, Vega is a little lower down towards the west, and Arclurus Is approaching the north-western horizon. Capella is conspicuous in the north-east: where the stars of Perseus, situated the Milky Way. are higher up to the right.

The full moon of September 9. being the one nearest in date to the autumnal equinox oh the 23rd. will be the harvest moon." rising about sunset tor several tvemngs in succession The new comet, discovered on August 2. can still be observed witlj field glasses in the evening, being sjtuated to the right of Arcturus and nearer to the north-western horizon Its southerly motion wril make it more difficult to see as the month advances, while in addition its brightness will continue to decrease MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE. Al sal and HUGH WILLIAMS.

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of all the cultures, this unique Caledonian Market of the arts. The next event, the concert in the Usher Hall, with Klemperer conducting Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde." Fischer-Dieskau singing the music hallowed bv Kathleen Ferrier, promises visions potentially apocalyptic. tended to be weak, and his third were often dreadful. This was doubly astonishing: not only because Mr Ingrams is not usually like this, but also because witn such a filmed and edited programme there is opportunity to cut out the weak spots. Still, for all that the programme contained some fine and 'meaty stuff.

The bigger questions race, unions tended to be treated in a superficial and conventional manner. But there was some first-rate human interest. The enormously long and wildlv unrepresentative, interview with the television producer was the true Dabulum of television an interesting man who couid talk and did, and was allowed to Or the briefer but no less gripping interview with the member of the Amish sect, who are opposed to buttons and don't care who knows it Or the (admittedly sentimentalised) Negro couple who were happv, and who were going to have fried chicken for dinner This was a programme that could have been much better but even as it was I would not have missed it. That was one of those programmes that is slowly helping to convince me that one dav sav a thousand vears from now ITV will be taking 39 steps forward for every 38 steps back. "Highland Fling" a musical comed performed as a serial, convinces me of nothing but the fact that there are more things in heaven, earth, and Television House than are dreamed of in anv philosophy with which 1 hav-j even a nodding acquaintance.

It contains Mr Richard Hearne who fails down about ten or fifteen "times each episode, and Mr James Havter. who was this week observed to dance an eight-some reel a sight not hkelv to be repeated this side of the Greek calends and some inoffensive tinklv music, for the most part sung more out of tune than one would have believed was phvsica Impossible, and a Scottish castle, and a ghost, and an estate agent called (I think Wormnutt and a prettv girl or two and lots of people being pushed into the moat with frightful splashes and everything that goes to make up the perfect children's entertainment. Now this is not an elaborate wav of saying that Highland Fling is childish it really is pitched perfectly at children of about nine, and would have. I guess, most children of that age enthralled throughout and healthily. I might add.

which is more than, one can sav for some of the children's programmes. But and this is the dreadful thought "Highland Fling" is screened at half-past nine, and is seriously intended for adults. Whereat (for here is no evidence that jt was originally made for children and then squeezed out of the children's hour bi the exigencies of Di-oaramme planning) I have to contess that I simntv do not know what to av. Except perhaps that on independent television it is a wise child that knows his own rjroSramme BENEFACTOR UNKNOWN IN VILLAGE 1,000 for old people The parish council of South Norman-ton, Derbyshire, has been left nearly 1,000 to devote to the welfare of old people, under the will of a South African woman who is unknown in the village. The clerk to the council, Mr Douglas Hill, said We suddenly received a letter from a firm of solicitors informing us that under the willof a Mrs A.

Fletcher, of South Africa, we have beeii left nearly 1,000 to invest for the old folk of the village. There was no clue as to why she should have left, the money to the village. As far as we have been able to discover no one knows who she is, or when she died." The council has written to her solicitors asking for more details. BOOKS RECEIVED rrora World's Wort THE COMING (P THE KING Norman Vincent Prate 111 8 6d From Peler Dsvies GOD'S BAS'Dfr Story of Don Orlone Dotmlat Hjile 15; BUT. DEVIL AVD THE DEEP Sacha CurncRic I6.

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LONDON'S FESTIVAL BALLET SEASON ENDS SATURDAY. 1 SEPTEMBER. Evcninss at pm. Matlnecm (Wednesdays and Saturdays). at 2 30 pjn To-day (2 30 and 8) Giselle, Graduation BaU.

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76. 51-, 36. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible the state of hysteria which made some adolescent girls of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, and most of their community, believe that they were possessed of the devil was induced by twisted Puritan repression. In "The Witches of Salem," the French version now at the Academy Cinema, Jean-Paul Sartre, who adopted it, and Raymond Rouleau, who directed, have introduced a Negress who is apparently already a witch, and it is she who first inculcates evil in the girls" minds. difference does not invalidate the impressiveness of what follows, but it does mean that when the evil has spread and the girls have but to denounce worthy citizens as witches for them to be condemned, the genesis of their conduct and their misbegotten power lies not merely the ignorant, superstitious community itself, which I take it was Mr Miller's point, but to some extent in the deliberate influence to which the wretched girls were initially subject.

Thus the analogy with McCarthyism has been weakened, which was presumably not what Sartre intended, let alone Mr Miller. It is possible, though, that this has heightened the drama, qua drama, wmch fairly bowls along (or the full two and a quarter hours of running time. And I have nothing but praise for the acting of the three characters serving as its pivots Simcne Signoret as the wife whose narrow outlook rules out wifeliness, Yves Montand as her husband, driven into the arms of Abigail, their servant girl, and finally to a sarrificia death, and Mylene Demongeot's Abigail, a sex-ridden child caught up in a hurricane of diabolism A very different kind of insanity informs "An Affair to Remember" (at the Carlton) the calculated, civilised insanity of wit which, plus style and polish, makes this as good an approximation to high comedy as Hollywood brings us in these Lubitsch-less, Capra-forgotten days. This is a remake of an eighteen-year-old film called Love Affair," with Leo McCarey again directing, from virtually unchanged shooting script and without, thank heaven, turning it into a musical. All he has added merely, one guesses, to keep pace with present-day requirements is colour, a wide screen, and about half an hour, and it says much for his skill that, although I happen to remember "Love Affair" very clearly.

I could not for the life' of me say which bits account for the extra time It is certainly not the result of any slowing LONDON Uvvai. (Ira 641U1 MOD -In I Hal i.JU Sat 6, 40 Michael Denison. Sophie Stewart Llaht comedy with music ME El ME BV MOONLIGHT. AMBASSADORS. ITcm 1171 7 30 Tu 2 30 5.15.

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(Tem. 2238 I 8 p.m.. Sat 5 30. 8.30 Michael Flanders. Donald Swann AT THE DROP OF A HAT.

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5.15 and 8.30 SUMMER OF THF SEVENTEENTH DOLL. The plav of Ihe vcar Dailv Express PALLADIUM. (Oer 7373 1 Eves al 6 15 and 8.45 Max Bva-avcs In WE'RE HAVING A BALL, wilt) loan Reaan The Gooferj. and sreal cast. PHOENIX.

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CURZON. (Gro 3737.) Last weeks End as a Man (X) Proas 13 45. 3 13. 3 45. 8 20 A remarkable film -E News EMPIRE.

(Ger 124) Van Johnson. Marline Carol Herbert Lorn In ACTION OF THE TIGER (U) Proar mimes al 10 25 12.5 2 40 5.10. 8.5 CAUMONT. Haymnrkel. (Whl 6655 OPERATION MAD HALL (U) At 1 55 4 15 6 40 8 35 Doors at 115 LEIC.

SO TH (Whl 5252) THE STORY OF ESTHER COSTELl.O (Al 1 15 3 50 25 9 5 Door 12 20 LONDON PAVILION. Judy Hntlldiy Richard Come In FULL OF LiFE (Al and CALYP.SO HEATWAVE (U). Prosrammcs at 10 2(1 25, 4 30 7 15 ODEON. Lelc. Sq.

C'Scope lame Caxney MAN OP A 'THOUSAND PACES (A) At I 20 3 50. 6.70. 8 45 ODEON. M. Arch, (Pad 8011.) Victor Maiure.

Diana Dors THE LONIJ HAUL (A). 1.45. 4 15 6 45. 9.15 THEATRES ETC Hippodrome. tAUDTv-cit 025 am untnin- Star aMafcw in Pmon CAttHOLL.

LEVIS whh Scnsationat TV Star Search FDDiE CiUrrRON Ncm hccIc DfNALD HELRS SHOW BELLE VUE GARDENS: ZOO AQUARIUM, daily from 10 a DANCING NIGHTLY WRESTLING "lO-NIGHT. 7 pm STOCK CARS. TO-NIGHT. 7 Unrs. Restaurants Cflfs Party catering any number (apply Cntcrinit Manager) SEVENTH NORTHERN ANTIQUE DEALERS' FAIR THE ROYAL HALL.

HARROGATE THURSDAY. SCPT. 5 THURSDAY, SEPT 12. 19S7 Open II a.m CJose 7 tn fexceut rhurs the 5th, nd Tuei ihe 10lhh 9 30 To be opened by tfle Rt Hon the Ear. of FeTcnham.

DSO, at 2.30 p.m on Thursday. Sepiembcr 3. 1957, There will be 1 special composite cxhlbl of valuable Antique on lour, from the Historic Homes or the North and from private collections which are not normally available to public 1nirecton, All Hani exhibited Anilqne Dealers are for sale and articles sold will be replaced" dally bv oilier Anllques for alc. AdmtssEon Prst tiny 5j, other dajs 3s MANCHESTER CINEMAS UEANSGATE 5ihs ct( Joan Collins. Harry Betlafonte Dorolhy Dundrldse.

Stephen Bcvd in IM-AND THE SUN. A CroemaScope (lira GAt'MOM Oxiord Street CEN U2J Open 1 om Patrick. Charles Coburn Wendy Hiller Kalte lunuicin HOW TO MURDER A RICH UNCI lUI ODEON. Oxford SI. Com.

1 p.m. HELL DRIVERS (A) Vls.aV Comra la-morrow LONELY MAN (A). VlslaV. 4.30. SO SABRIN A FAIR (U) OXFORO.

RKhsrd todd YANUIHt INCIDENI CUl ROYAL COMMAND FILM. Showirw at 0. 3.25. 6 15, Hid 8.20. SECOND WEEK.

LAST DAY. down, for the story is as neatly told as before, and Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr make perfect successors to Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne as the shipboard lovers who both have fiances waiting to be dealt with at the end of the voyage: no two players could more charmingly convey the subtle intimacy of the half-spoken jokes they exchange. Nor, I must regretfully add, has Mr McCarey toned down the artificially 'contrived misunderstanding which keeps the lovers apart, the story going, and the sentiment too rife, after they have come ashore. For those who not unpardonably expect Judy Holliday to go on driving her solid gold Cadillac, "Full of Life" (London Pavilion), throughout which she is the pregnant wife (hence the Dorothy Parker-ish title) of an American-Italian, will be a disappointment But if her fancies lend themselves to a less extravagant form of comedy acting, there is extravagance in plenty in the Magnani-esque performance of Salvatore Baccaloni as her father-in-law who has rose tattoos all over him. Tennessee Williams himself turns up.

however incredibly, as part author of the American dialogue with which "The Wanton Counless" (Paris-Pullman) has been dubbed This long and tedious tarra-diddle about a Venetian countess (Alida Valh) who succumbs to the caddishness of an Austrian officer during the 1866 occupation of Italy is a fair example of how the Italian film industry makes its money while De Sica and Rossellini make its international prestige. In "The Long Haul" Marble Arch Odeon) Victor Mature drives a lorrv loaded with hundredweights of contraband furs and with oozing pounds of Diana Dors over a trackless mountain I forget why COUNCIL'S GIFT TO ARMY DRIVER Carlton Urban Council is to present an engraved watch to Driver John Lee who guided a transporter safely through the town on Thursday after its braking system had failed. Driver Lee steered the transporter, carrying a 33-ton tank, past buses and cars and, after it crossed the town centre at more than 50 m.p.h., brought it to a stop without having caused any damage THEATRES PICCADILLY. (Ger. 4506 7.30.

5 30 and 8.30. rh 2.30. Paul icefield. Mess Jenkins tn A DEAD SECRET. A live theatrical must." Standard PRINCE OF WALES.

6861.) Evas 6 15 and 8 50 New Fabulous Follies PLEASURES OF PARIS DEckJe Henderson Sabnna. Three Monarchs, etc ROYAL COURT. (Slo 1745 I Em 7 30 Sal 5 and 8 13. 2.30 LOOK BACK IN ANGER (till Sept 14) ST MARTIN'S (Tern 1443 Evas 8 Sat 5 JO 8 3(1 Tu 2.30 D. Slnden Pavlow Farr.

ODD MAN IN. SAVOY. (Tem S884.1 Efis 7.30. Wed 2.30. Sat.

5. 8.15. PR EE AS AIR. by DOROTHY RFYNOLDS and JUHN SLADE Music bv Julian Slade STRAND. (Tern 2660.) Evas 7 30 Sat 5.13 B.30 Th 2 30 Pcxsry Mount SAILOR BEWARE (3rd vcar.) VAUDEVILLE.

Tem. 4871 1 Mon -Frl 8. Sat 5 and 8. Matinee Thurs 2 30 SALAD DAYS a Mucical by DOROTHY REYVOLDS and JULIAN SLADE. VICTORIA PALACE.

(Vic. 1317 6 15 8 45 Tickets available for THE CRAZY GANG new revue. These FrKitlih Klnas. WESTMINSTER (Vic 0283.) Evss at 8 0. Sat 5.30 and 8 3d Thtir 2 45 Dtvld Tomlrnson Anna Maguey in DEAR DELINOUENT VMlfTI-UML (Whl 6692 7 30 5 15 13 Th 2.30 Brian U.S.

Bavil Loid Leo I'r mklvn DRY ROT. 4th yr. WINDMILL. PIcc Ore. RLVUDLVILLE.

26th vr 29lt ed (5(h k) Com dly 12 15-10 35 Last perf. 9 pm. A Van Damm Production WE NEVER CLOSED WYNDHAM'S. (Tem 3028.) Eves. 8 30 Saturdays 5.3a and 8.30 Mats Wed.

at 2.30 THE HOY FRIEND. OPERA AND BALLET COVENT GARDEN. THE ROYAL BALLET. Last Two Performances To-day 2 0 and 7 30, Lea Svlphidcs, Rlnaldo nnd Armlda. Ballet Imnerlal Cov 1066 ROYAL FESTIVAL HAIX.

FESTIVAL BALLET. Last week To-day. 2.30 St 8 Giselle. Graduation Ball. Sept 2-4 Perrouchka.

Harlequinade. Graduation Ball. Sept. 5 GALA PFRF. (with Tallchicr.

Krasscvska. Skibine). Sept. 6 4 7 Swan Lake. Concertl.

Graduation BaU. Mat Wed Sat. WAT 3191 SADLER'S WEL1.S. (Ter 1672) To-day. 5 and 8.

Last wo perfs, XIMENEZ AND VARGAS. "Freshest Ballet from Spain In years "Dally Sketch Sent 2. JOSE LIMON American Dance Company. Booking. LONDON CONCERTS ROYAL ALBERT HALL.

HENRY WOOD PROMENADE CONCTSRTSr NtshllTw 7.30 (to? excepted) Tictreta at Kail (Ken 82121 and Agents, CINEMAS n.r.OK,n,rnt!t commence at 10 40, 2 45 6.50 FESTIVAL HALL. ShikwcaicV, OTHELLO (Al in colour To-morrow 4 Jt) and 7.30 Al! seals bookable WAT 3191 STUDIO ONE. WALT DISNEY'S Sona 01 the South OJ Technicolor Al 1,40 4.12 6.45 9 20 Doors II If) OllvkrlMaril)" Monroe SR. THE SHOWGIRL (A). Tech 12:0 12 50 3 2(1 5 55 8 30 Last screenlna 9 0 ART EXHIBITIONS LEi5y.H Leicester Square Pan II ARTISTS OF FAME AND PROMISE.

An mtarejy new exhibition 10-5 30 Sau 10-1 uray EXHIBITIONS "HH1-, PAVILION. Reaency Exhibition Apariments fully furnished orlltinal furniiure from Uucktncham Palace Banquetloa display oi toe Ambassadorial Silver of the Marquis of tffMTSTil 'ncludln. sundav. ENOINLLHING, MARINE, WELDING, and NUCLEAR ENERGY EXHIBlTlONToiympb Am 29 Vo Scot 12 10 a -6 daily (except Sundays) Friday UU 8 p.m HALLE CENTENARY FESTIVAL Single Tickets concerts on sale to SOC MEMBERS rrora September 2. GENERAL PUBLIC from September 9 (Sole season tickets stU atatlobte far limited period) HALLE BOOKING OKKICE (It)om to 6 3o 8 St Peter's Square.

Manchester 2 City of Manchester Art Galleries Htaton Halt Heaton Park MUSIC BY ELIZABETHAN COMPOSERS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES icn tn THE NORTHERN CONSORT lUroara Yair. soprano Raymond Lock Tenor Cyntb'a Scotl Contralto Leslie Auer Baritone Oncn Wynne Counter-Tenor Edgar Parktnion Bail Dlrccl Owen Wynne with Allan Wicks Otcan Introduced bv John Hopkins SUNDAY SEPTEMBER ID57 ADMISSION BY "PROGRAMME PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE. Obtainable city nailery snd Hentnn Hall TOURING THEATRES "ifc. CIT-NTURY THEATRE. Tbe Famous Tbeatre-on.

Wheela now at PRINCESS STREET. BURY. Thursday, Anauil 31 ROGUES AND VAGABONDS. An entertainment tor all tbe family. 7.31) cadi cTcnrftf.

Thirty minutes from the new Archbishop of Capetown (Dr Joost de Blank) on Serving God and Caesar." just before he is due to leave for his new post, raised hopes of the most compelling half-hour the Sunday-night religious programme has vet given us. As it happened, the half-hour was not only dull but distinctly feeble. I have met the Archbishop and I know that he is one of the truly great Anglican churchmen of our time, with a mind and a spirit rarely to be met with The number of viewers who have been privileged to find this out. however, must be small and if Dr de Blank or Mr Michael Redington (A.TV's religious programmes producer) imagines that the oroBramme as we saw it displaced a single grain of doubt or dented a single brick in the wall of aoathv. I fear thev are much mistaken Yet consider what such a programme might have been (and even as it was one could sense the untapped possibilities).

To give this distinguished, noble man (his very features, long and saturnine without being ascetic, gave a powerful clue to the spirit within) free rein to talk, in his own terms and on his own level, about the desperate dichotomy that faces anv Christian in the modern world, and that he, who will soon have to deal with a dark and terrible Caesar, must lately have pondered on by night and bv day would not this be worth all the chats and homilies and sound-tracked hymns (which in any case alwavs sound as if thev are being sung by the George Mitchell Glee Club on an off night) and words of one syllable? Indeed it would. A different kind of missed opportunity was the hour-long programme put out for Associated-Rediffusion bv that skilful team. Michael Ingrams and Carvl Doncaster. on America Now Mr Ingrams and Miss Doncaster went to the United States, shot 25.000ft of film in a month, edited it down to an hour, and showed the result. It lasted an hour vet there was more meat and more real feeling of what America is like in Mr Robin Day's programme on the same subject for Roving Reoort." which lasted but half the time Why is this? The reason is an oddlv irritating one: it is that Mr Ingrams (who wrote and directed the programme as well as conducting the interviews) writes much better than he asks questions The linking narrative was first rate: colourful descriptive, pointed, elevant.

But when he took the micro-nhone in his hand and sallied forth to isk the natives questions Mr Ingrams cemed to lose his grip entirely Over md over again he displayed that elementary fault of the bad interviewer the to dry uo if the subject of the interview failed to be sufficiently expanse. Mr Ingrams's first questions were always good his second questions 100 YEARS AGO rom the Manchester Guardian of August 29, 1857 MANCHESTER, SATURDAY. AUGUST 29. 1837 We are glad to find in the columns of a London contemporary the announcement that an association is about to be formed for the promotion of social science." for the study and elucidation of some of the most important problems which at the present time require the attention alike of philosophers and statesmen. Far beyond any purely political in their immediate bearing on our national welfare and on the internal interest of this great empire, are those social questions of which some solution must, ere long, be demanded from the legislature of this country questions of an entirely different nature from those which have hitherto been the most prominent subjects in the minds of politicians and in the deliberations of parliament For more than half a century the social' reformers have been growing in importance and in influence, and their work becomes year by year more and more emphatically the work of to-day The abolition of the slave trade, the1 amelioration of our savage criminal code, the emancipation of the negroes, were the great victorieSOf this party in the earlier years of the present century Since ihat time their successes have not perhaps been so brilliant, but their work has not been less useful or their progress less rapid There is no party which now ventures to oppose them.

Men may differ as to the details of particular measures, or the time of introducing'them religious bigotry may lead some to oppose reforms which appear lo have some point of collision with some sectarian dogma, -and political partisan ship or class interests may-array a certain number of politicians in hostility to sin propositions of amendment which trench upon prejudices or privileges. But no man who values his own reputation for sense and sanity. who has the slightest pretension to be considered as a wan of practical views or sound political judgment, ventures to express opinions host'le to the general principles of the social GALA PERFORMANCE, THURSDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, al 8 p.m. NLARJOR1E TALLCH1EF and GEORGE SKIBISE In ANNABEL LEE Variations for four (Premiere): Symphony fo. Fu NATALIE KRASSOVSKA In Graduation Ban Tlelceta: 25-.

21-. 15-, Return Visit oC tbe Superb BULGARIAN STATE COMPANY 100 Artisw En programme oC MUSIC, SONG AND DANCE from BULGARIA One of tne most brilliant and bapplecl cBtertaltuneau a' risers and dancers alike seeanec to love every moment oC the performance Dally Express. MONDAY to SATURDAY, 9 to 14 SEPTEMBER, at p.m. Matinee SATURDAY at 2 P.aa. SUNDAY, IS SEPTEMBER, at 7 34) p.m.

CONCERT PERFORMANCE TlcVeta 15-. 126, 10-. T6, 5-. HAROLD HOLT LTD. announc ISAAC STERN ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TUESDAY p.m.

17 SEPT Overture "Prince Isor" DO ROD IN Violin Concerto No 2 PROKOFIEI-F Vlohn Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony N'o 4 in flat BEETHOVEN 5-. 716 10 TO-MORROW. 1 SEPTEMBER, at 4 30 and 7 30 The Russian Colour Film of Shakespeare's Immortal trsRedy. OTHELLO (A) LAST TWo PERFORMANCES Tickets. 0- 716.

5- (all bookable). HOULDSWORTH HALL TUESDAY MID-DAY CONCERTS Founded 1915 SEASON 1957-8 1 10 to 3 DENIS MATTHEWS NOWAKOWSW GWYNETH GEORGE BRYAN VICKERS PAMELA BOWDEN IOHN OGDON ROGER WINF1ELD NEA.MAN PIANO TRIO EVELYN ROIHWELl MICHAEL HEAD MARGARET LANE PHILIP CHALLIb RALPH HOLMES EN A M1TCHLLL IOHN LAWRENSON JEREMY GOTT HONOR SHEPPARD DAPHNE SPOTT1SWOODE BBC NORTHERN SINGERS COUN HORSLEY JEAN REDDY INTIMATE OPERA WILLIAM COOMUES SUSAN TUNNELL TESSA ROBBINS CONSTANCE SHACKLOCK DORIS ELL BERNARD ROBERTS PETER KAT1N OLIVER VELLA WENDV WATERMAN FREDERICK GRINKE MICHAEL HEAD MARJORIP THOMAS IRENE KOHLF.R MAUREEN GUY JOHN CLEGG KING'S LYSN I-'ESTIVAL ENSEMBLE CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS 5ELJJCK 28 Coupon Ticket, 50-FORSYTHS 126 Deansgatc Manchester. First Concert Sept. 17 Piano Recital DENIS MATTHEWS GEOFFREY BUCKLEY (Recltallst Tuesday Midday Concerts. Witmore Hall London) Houldsworth HaU.

BBC. etc) can accept from September a limited number of pupils In AdrnrKeiJ Pianoforte Ptaylnjt. Write cjo PoriylM 126 Dca rafale. Manchcater S..