Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 5

SHOW PAGE minti Top for THEATRES We're still in the middle of the annual midsummer famine as far as Liverpool theatregoing is concerned. But at last the plans for the Royal Court are beginning to take shape for the autumn. Towering over everything else it the week's visit of the Royal Shakespeare Company in October. This will give Liverpool audiences the chance to by ROY WEST ass two top actresses in roles which have recently won them considerable praise. From Monday.

October 2, to Wednesday. Dor ot Tutin will be seen as Rosalind in As You Like It," and for the rest of the week Dame Peggy Allicroft will be playing her highly-acclaimed role of Helen Alving in Ibsen's "Ghosts. Turning up in his rather less familiar capacity as a Shakespearian actor in "As Yon Like It is comedian Roy Kinnear. Re is best known from his TW3 satire days on 8.8. C.

Television, but before that he was a stage actor actresses the Court A A A 4 40 0 Dorothy Twilit (above) and Dame Ashcroft will appear In Liverpool with thi Itoral Shakespeare CowllMaY is October. with Joan Uttlewood's Theatre Workshop. Nearer at band, the Royal Court reopens after its summer facelift on Tuesday, August 15, with the British premiere of Donald McKayel's new dance production "The Black New World." This is presented by impresario Peter Bridge in conjunction with Ellis Haizlip and Rudolph Stober. From Liverpool it aili go to the Edinburgh Festival and ultimately to the West End. The ne comedy by that inveterate team Hugh and Margaret Williams arrives at the Court the following week.

The title Let'a All Go Down The Strand refers to the fact that the divorce courts are situated at one end of London's Strand. It sounds the usual sort of marital mix-up. What distinguishes it is the cast list which is headed by Dame Gladys Cooper and also includes Evelyn Laye, Avice Landon. Dinah Sheridan. William Kendall and author Hugh Williams himself.

Monday. September 4 sees the return to Liverpool of another familiar face. Margaret Lockwood, who Played here in both visits of the Oscar Wilde comedy "An Ideal Husband." This time she will be co-starring with Donald Houston in a new play by Richard Lorts called The Others." Presented by Bridge Productions, this will be directed by actor Nigel Patrick. Looking further ahead. November sees the annual beano for Gilbert and Sullivan threeweek visit of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

The repertoire has yet to be announced. The only other booking at the moment for the Royal Court is the Bachelors' Christmas Show. Incidentally I understand that after some uncertainty. magician Johnny Hart is now definitely back on the bill. Meanwhile it's still steamer and the only live show en Merseyside at the moment is Jackson Envies tireless Melody Inn revue at New Brighton's Floral Pavilion.

Highlights of the current show, which is basically a repeat of the No. 4 progratlune, are Speakeasy 1900" and "Burmese Ballet," which features Joy Caville and the Lido Lovelies. victim at an unknown enemy. His daughter Allmon (Valerie Wendy cell in the family doctor to friendly bulldog named Disraeli is the special agent in the comedy, "The Spy With A Cold Nose." The dog Is sent by two M. 1.5 agents, played by Lionel Jeffries and Eric Sykes, into the Kremlin.

In his role as spy with a cold nose, the dog relays secret information out of Russia--end there is an tanner. Also stars Leurenee Harvey and Denali Levi. brings together on the screen two well-known young people making their screen singer Paul Jones and internationallyfamous fashion model Jean Shrimpton. Paul Jones plays a musical star in the film. in which he sings.

The film is in technioolor and also stars Jeremy Lloyd and Harry Davies. Wisdom plays a car-cleaner who wants to be a policeman, but is refused because he is too small, in "On The Beat." Norman is dejected until he gets his big chance to help the police solve a number of big jewel a secret agent As usual, thing. do not go to plan with Norman around. The support, "The Fast lady," is about a young man and his ambition to spy with a difference, Derek That is beck in more exciting adventures in hia latest film. "In Like Flint" James Coburn stars as the hero who is called in to investigate when some mysterious actions seem to threaten to sabotage a government attempt to launch the first space platform, along with the follow-up of sending men to establish a space research laboratory.

Flint finds Mewed bottling with a group of women who plan to take over the world. Also stars Lee J. Cobb and Andrew Denim. A.8.C., Lints for a second week, "El Dorado" brings together two of the screen's most professional Wayne and Robert Mitchum. The sheriff of El Dorado, J.

P. Harrah, a renowned gunfighter, rules the town with an iron hand. His authority is challenged when a range war breaks out in his territory. Then a hired gunfighter arrives in his town. double does of horror is offered in "Dr.

Blood's Coffin" and The Four Skulls a Jonathan Drake." The firm film is about mysterious happenings in a tiny Cornish village. Young Dr. Peter Blood (ffeiron Moore) eventually suspicion is thrown upon him. The second concerns a family living under a centuries-old curse. Jonathan Drake (Jkluard Frans) is to be the thud NIGHTMARE IN THE NEW FILMS You feel as if you are corning into a factory in middle of a wildcat strike.

An asyl couldn't be more frantic, a prison more ugly and violent Wore a hanging. On the notice board are orders to report any cases of suspected psychosis. Feet stamp, doors clang. A bell like a fire alarm pierces the hubbub, only to be followed by a loudspeaker announcement "Disregard all belle. Repeat all bells!" The living hell is in one of this week's trouble spots.

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7.10. CLASSROOM Calvin Coolidge high school as it appears to a young by FELIX teacher in "Up The Down Staircase' (4.0. Coming up the down BARKER staircase on her first bewildered day, this fledgling from some refined and gentle academic nestling is flung among the hawks and carrion crows of a co-education state school in Manhattan's poorest quarter. The window of her ehmsroom is broken. There ip no chalk.

A sullen Spanish boy fingers a flick knife in the back row. When she reproves a moustached adolescent who lounges in with: You are late," he snarls back: "I'm not late I'm absent With an incisive power, rare i American films. Alan Pakula, the producer, and Robert Mulligan. director 'the team which made "To Kill A plunge us and the teacher into this alien, almost world. The girl.

whose 'tp trembles, as well it might, is Sandy Dennis, we last saw her as the young. distraught wife in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 7" Under the strain of her class of misfits. hooligans, and suicidal adolescents, Miss Dennis' nerve starts to crack. Her eyes become bleary from loss of sleep, her speech stumbles. Bravely she tries to relate Dickens and literature to a philosophy that will have some meaning for her pupil-load.

as they are with official inhumanity. It is a superb performance in a superb film. I have high-lighted the stridency of the setting not the subtlety of the interpretation. With its implicit social criticisms. this is the best film out of America for a very long time.

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Game Is Sensuous, over: decorated and the kind of film in which the sulphur smell of hell-fire is only slightly disguised by aroma of expensive incense. In a sumptuous Parisian house full of judo skulls. eastern idols and chinoiserie. Jane Fonda pursues Peter They are about the same age, but she is married to his father. Her hunting costume consists of a chinchilla wrap and white lace panties.

In tartar makeup, he is dressed as Genghis Juan. Their love affair is inevitably and erotically reflected In a distorting mirror. Puritans are advised be keep clear. I don't think British rule in India is any too accurately suggested in be Low Duel tU Still. Trevor Howard is there to represent thr more enlightened type of British kind whom his bone-headed superior officer.

Harry Andrews. contemptuously calls an Indian-lover." They are in pursuit of skirt-ewtshing tribesmen led by a turbanned Yul Brynner. Andrews uses machine-guns. Howard prefers humanity. A lot of shooting, some bogus Indian dancing, and a long duel two Brynner is subdued and Howard walks off into the mountains with Brynner's darkskinned son.

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