The Observer from London, Greater London, England • 11

11 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1955 Aimic Prom Problems At the Theatre NEW WRITING By KENNETH TYNAN At the Films ANTI-THESIS By C. A. LEJEVNE By ERIC BLOM Televman Variety By ALAN Bit I EN TN a week when no single item pushes itself forward for extended analysis, it is perhaps worth considering in detail the programmes 'for two evenings. Tuesday began with Top Town, in which teams of amateurs competed for the accolade from three a time of year when -naverr the cmema is rare, an interesting new film turns ud at able U'ade. compounded ol Jn.iu" and ibber rsh.

ftkc genc.il tcno is thai, in -spjic liI m.jiei mI I'rrN and 1 1 kmJ ot enn ri 1.1 r-spintualk dwindle-- ha slle he.L-a bouts reminds o1 ci b- thai vs.ls one Jo.c sccsctjFs In ihc next jl Pozo and Luck ieiuvn. inis -imc moving, just is pu poeinlk. 'he opposite diKetKin Ihc ous, but thev are unimpressive because they can result at best only in a knowledge of what the Promena-dcrs think they want, and certainly never ol what they need, which is ultimately all that matters. We always come back to that. It is not at all strange, as Sir Malcolm says, lhat people would rather have four Beethoven works alone than with a novelty put in for flood measure.

But why ask them Tney would not have wanted Beethoven in hit own time when his works were novelties, but woutd have clamoured for four works by Haydn, undisturbed by the VM'LL I AL virtue attaches r- htch remind ihe I'Miiu of how much tl can lio wttnout and slilJ exist. a i.n knon criteria, Mr. Samuel Waiting for Godot (Arts) dramatic vacuum: ptly the ho seeks a chink in its armour, lor it is all chink It has no plot, no cjimax. no nttnenwnr; no beginning, no middle and no c.id Unavoidably, has a situa-1 -mi' and it mighi he accused of suspense, since it deals with 'ir impatience oi two tramps, waiting K-nealh iree Hv a cryptic Mr Ciodol to keep hi appointment with but i hi. -i iwiiun is ncvei developed, ano gUncc the pio-ctdmnic ih.it Mr Oodot is not dead' vvnerc lhe arc A pjebcnung Godot i and regret tm(i thai be meet them to-dav II message ab vcslcidav child Luniphmcni is urubie ii the sdirn Men of goodwill must stand together.

You will also be advised that dictnrs are human bemRX. Nuns are human beings, prisoners srre human beings. Indians (Red) are troimm beings. Prostitutes are human beings. It is perhaps loo much to expect that we should have been tend, up to now, on This side of the Iron CuTtam, that Communists are1 human beings; or that thev should have bets soH, up to now.

on the other side of the Iron Curtain, that democrats are human bemgs But the repeated negation of an) soch belief raises a problem. It' a doctor is a human being, and a Communist lor Democrat) is not a human being, whal is the status of a Communist tor Democrat) doctor That is the sort of impaasr that thesis brings us to. The main trouble with most serious films is that they insist that people are people, and then refrain from showing them as people. How often do we sec a character who really comes lo life on the screen Once in a score of films? Once La Continentale, called The Barefoot BattsSoa. It was made in Greece, It sets out in the form ot a cautionary tale told to a young pickpocket by a reformed pickpocket a story of Salonika under German ocenpatiem, and the exploits of a gang of ragged boys who learn to -help the oWer members of the Resistance small but essential jobs of pilfering.

The talc appears no have some substance in fact. Members of the cast have been recruited from orphanages, reform schools and other Government lnsii-tutions. The dialogue is Greek, but there are American sub titles. The ruined crypts from which the children operate are relics of an ancient war against the Turks The celestial choir would seem to be a modern bonus. The Barefoot Battalion is on the short list for rhc Sclznick Golden professionals.

The performers were twice as assured and relaxed as their judges, who were in obvious terror of discouraging anyone. The turns were rather engagingly old-fashioned. The singers thundered robust ty about glorious Devon and only an English rose. The dancers "iff-i away as though suspended imxnobite from the waist upwards on hi visible wires. There were conjurers and ventriloquists.

It was all like, a good provincial music-ball bill of 1931. Next came Who SbM the second appearance of a new parlour game series. There was no studio audience, no scoring, no challengers, no guest artists, no buzzers or bells, no illuminated boards or little effigies of the panel. There were simply five same, ihev wait. The heio all th Crime and Pumhmcni rcnecis a condemned man had lo ic- lhL.

aiting for iciiisons everything going io (jodol ikl new -tangled intruder. The excellent pioneer work of the Third Programme deserves all the credit it can get, if perhaps also some the criticism it has had recently, and 1 never suggested Slat the "Proms" should exist primarily for the purpose of m-iroducing new music while agreeing lhat they are Jiot the place for the most extreme innovations or experiments. But the Third Programme preaches to the converted and is ignored by the unadventurous, whereas the Proms could to some eitent make new friends for new music among those who do not in the first place look for such friendship, if only the organisers would rid themselves of the idea that Their audiences' wishes must be considered all An early portrait by Mondriaan, at the Whitechapcl Gallery. At the Galleries Golden Egg By NEVILE WALL1S J)lSCUSSION of the four young realists presented by Mr. Quentin Bell at the Tate must be deferred, and only glancing reference made to the beguiling naivete of the modern, primitives at Arthur Jeffress' Gallery.

For the arrival at the Whitcchapel Gallery of a selection from the comprehensive exhibition of Piet Mondriaan's works lately shown at Zurich is an event of recognise thcatt 1 1 Mom-house, as 'litigc, no passport dec la re. el il gc's iMch( a pilgrim Irom ihis, I believe, by a definition of drama da mental than any in c. 1 nd i i i i i M.i I. rtpPCrt hn much mo. i tic book 1 niain si.mdmi; on a square ard o( spjee arS his lite, a thousand vcars.

eicrniiv ueie bctie: to live so than tii die at once Man is a vile and vile is he who vails Tvm ilc lor that Someihmg of iissed rm mind as ihc U.l Mr t.ji"c de-m ilior -toies Ihe pin seei the human ii bagg panls and red noses Hastih labelling heir drsquict disgust. man ot ihe first-nighl audience lound it pretentious- Bui what, exacth. aie its pretensions r' lo stale thai mankind is wailing lor a sign which is late in coming is a plaiitudc which none hut an illiterate would inlcrpret as mak I vAuumu wiiii uica lo laeniny quotations and then discussed their meaning. Seme of the extracts were among the least memorable snippets of prase outside of a Christmas' cracker, but many of the obiter dicta were worth cherishing. Robert Hen-riques would like to wear a skirt because itis so cool and comfortable." Gilbert Hardinc disliked A.

pla, asserts and ill a means of spend-(hc dark without pi ovc. is int l) hours Laurel Award, an annual American award confined to films made outside the United States. The results will be announced at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and 1 shouldn't be at all surprised to see this entry win, for the producer, Peter Boudoures Greek-American restaura in a hundred The rarity ol the phenomenon is not as a rule the actor's fauli. Sometimes a small-part player, through artfulness, or a small child, throoiih artlessness, can get the better of an unobservant script But a leading actor, with a long part to ingest being bored Ik nulhor is an Irishman living in France a fact v.hich should prepare ns or ihc cxira. oddly serious ing Ltmms to profundity.

What vexed the plays enemies was. I suspect he opposite it was not pretcn-tious enough to enable them lo deride it 1 care little tor its enormous success in Furope over the past three ears. but much for the way in which and stirnulaicd mv own nervous li-kc he now pl.ts on us. issin ihc i.me in the dark, he suggests not only what di i.i is Libout but also whal is iifniui Existence depends on those meiaphviiCdl Miuwhcrs who will go on jiting. agair-st all rational a rgumcnt something whjch nid one day turn up to cpk.

in 1 he purpose of StR MALCOLM SARGENT'S letter in List Sunday's Orni rv u. read in coniunction svith of ihc week before, la whii.li it is reph. shows how impossihie it is for the B.B.C organisers tt please evervhtKiy. It is nut rcalk. Ihal the? do nol trv.

Slill. Ihc question remains whether the should endeavour even lo least- the Promenade audiences themselves -that is. the audiences as thc arc pi event constituted For the rest. Sir Malcolm and 1 are nol nearlv as much at loggerheads as he perhaps imagines. My articles are nccessanlv short: iherc ts haidlv ever space enough to turn round and see every aspect of a suhfeet 1 am well aware, for instance, that the problem of introducing novelties, especially foreign novelties, differs to-dav from that of thntv vcars ago.

New music then was on Ihc whole much more acccs-sihle than is now. in more senses one Ihc latest orchestral piece let us sa. Roger-Ducasse or Kodak or Rloch was written in an idinm immediately understood hy Irequentcrs of these concerts, whether thev liked a particular work or nol This is much more rarelv the case nowadays, and often the vcr music thai re most representative of the new tendencies about which it it arguable that the Prom audiences ought to know something again whether they like it or nol speaks a language utterly unintelligible to those not prepared bv some preliminary study Again, much of to-day's music is so difficult 10 pei form as lo be hardlv presentable without far more preparation lhan the conditions of these particular concerts will allow ly colleague pointed out last week that a bv Schocnbcrg made its impression al the -ix-en-Provence Festival onlv because it had been subjected 10 the mosi rijioious ichearsing IINAI i Y. so Ui as 1 need go at the moment, there is the purely maienat consideration thai new orchestral music is less icadily published nowadays than it used to be S'i Henry W'otvd in earlier days simph bought slacks ot scores and pails that had come fresh Irom ihc press in a dozen different countries and got on with their performance Now it would more olien than not be a case of laboriously hiring material liom all over Europe and America, nol lo mention the fact lhat a con duel or cannot easily study manuscript scores without commit-nng himscll to a performance before he can be suic that a work deserves And. ol course, loreign composes will not send their manuscripts for inspeclion.

as Bntish ones arc doubtless vcrv readv do. 1 am slue ih.it the pi cpondcrance of British works among this yeai's few novelties, lo sav nothing of other cars. is not due to chauvinism, but in the tact that material for their performance is easily oblaincd. Accessi-bibtv again. I This will do lo show Sir Malcolm I lhat 1 sec the difficulties as well as he docs 1 pari company wuh him merely in ihe matter of his notion.

which his letler sucgests is also Ihe H.C lhat ihc public must be given whal it wants The methods of ascertaining I is arc no doubt mgeni- tocks in shorts and thought kissing an indelicate and uncomely sport." Nancy Spain liked kissing but thought one could not say whether a book was good or bad only whether it sold well or not. The' evening ended with Caviar to the Geaeral, a weak wet snigger of a play about Americans trapped behind the Iron Curtain. This was Ninotchka without style or wit, and equally insulting and inaccurate about both nationalities. THURSDAY night was almost Observer night. It opened with Looting Back, in which Patrick CDonovan discussed the subject of Nationalism illustrated by film ovemdms importance, reminding us, incidentally, that true purpose of art is not to win our favour (if it does, tant mieux) but rather to satisfy the creative urge and intuitions of dedicated artists.

More contemporary art seems, indeed, implicit in Mondriaan's ceaseless experiments, which touched on impressionism, symbolism, cubism, expressionism, and eventually purest abstraction, than in anyone else's save Picasso's. Carefully chosen to illustrate the Dutch artist's complex yet logical development, the collection btvgins with portraits and willow landscapes done at the turn of the century. teur from San Francisco and the director, Gregg Tallas now working in have been at pains to present their film as a thesis. The subject of their thesis, as stated in a prologue, is that N.0 people can be truly free unless all peoples are truly free." As a description of The Barefoot Battalion the statement is utterly misleading. In legal terms, it is incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial.

The film is an adventure story; a gang story; a Robin Hood story about a band of juvenile outlaws who steal things from the rich and give them to the poor. It has nothing whatsoever to do wih the relations between individual and universal freedom. In fact, it is at its very best when it remains most strictly locai. But the broad messaee sounds impressive. he had chosen from the B.B.C.

Library. This essay on the greatest political emotion of our time would have been moderately interesting in print and rather dull on the radio. On the television screen, it became fascinating. The talk was deliberately abstract and generalised most of the ihe time. It is a principle in commerce to pretend that the customer is always right, though everybody knows that this is obviously untrue, rt is not commerce or should not he.

and though we heed not therefore say that its customers aTe always wrong, it is quite a sound policy to assume that they are. Hovingham Hovingham Festival, which sporadically rears its head in a handsome country house not far from York, is palpably not satisfied to rest on the laurels of its setting and its connections with the great Joachim. This year, though the music played came from as long ago as the reign of Richard Coeur de Lion in the past and stretched to Stravinsky and beyond in the present, only one Schubert movement represented the well-worn nineteenth century. The operas were Telemann's intermezzo Pimpinone and for the first time in English Monteverdi's beautifully contrived onslaught on Mantuan chastity. Ballo dell'Ingrate," both under the sensitive direction of Stewart Deas.

A splendidly devised divertissement of Tudor and pre-Tudor music in costume starred Alfred Deller, whose bearded splendour seemed to enhance his musicianship. In concerts of orchestral and chamber music, a clever blend of national and local talent was attained. Among the prominent artists wefe Marie Kor-eh ir.sk a. ihe Wigmore Ensemble, Iris 1 emare and her Orchestra. Margaret Kuchin.

Pamela Bowden and William l.ang Kenneth Leighton's Concerto for two pianos, strings and percussion and sustain, is ultimately dependent on the author's skill in bringing his character to life. The miracle does happen, now and then. Brief Encounter has become a classic of the cmema; nol because it had any message to convey, but because it had real people to discuss. "The Divided Heart" was memorable and affecting; not because it dealt with a recorded case of a boy who was claimed by two mothers, the one who had lost him. and the one who had adopted him, in the terrible accounting of the war; but because each woman Was a real woman; sentient, biased, gallant obstinate, devoled, lonely and always human.

"The Barefoot Battalion" is a humane film; but, with the exception of the pictures of one small boy, who somehow catches, in his shy, old face, the pattern of the sun and cloud of childhood, its interest is less concerned with the individual than the mass. The characters are moved about in blocks; good ones this side, bad ones that side. Sometimes the lines are extended, like a game of ha4ma; sometimes they close up like a game of draughts. No one is particularly real; but since this is a thesis film, one side, of course, is evidentlv right, the other side ridiculously wrong. Each character is a piece in a match fixed to win.

If "The Barefoot Battalion" has a message it mieht be. "No character can be truly free unless all characters are truly free." And what a turmoil thai would set up in the cinema' svstem It summoned the music hall and ihe paiable to present a view of lite which banished The scntTncntdhU of 'he music hall and ihe pa 1 able tulsome upliM It foiced me to re examine the rules which have he Mo gover ned diam.i, and. having done so. to pronounce ihcm not elastic enough. is alidl new and hence declare mvscll.

as the Spanish would sa atHlnnsta Mr. Peter Hall pla with a marvellous to: Us elusive rhvihms. and Messrs. Peter Vs ood-thorpe and Paul Oaneman give the tramps a compassionate lunacv which onh prolessional clowns could excel fmvsicallv. Mr Peter Bull is Poo tii the hie vocalK.

he teiplavs his hand Mr Timolhv Baieson 1 uekx is anguish made comic a remarkable dchiexemcni pcrlcctK in keeping with the spir it nl the pla From this subdued impressionism Mondriaan first departed witih atmospheric pictures as simplified as bis water-colour of a farmhouse, and in 1908 we find him painting a wood with the expressionist conviction of a Munch, and using patches of radiant fauvist colour in a Windmill in Sunlight." In the following, feverishly creative years, he was obsessed with bare towers and dunes, and a wonderful series of tree studies, their vivid wriggling branches expressing a personal vision as intense as Carl Hill's. By 1911, in which year Mondriaan settled in Paris and began to evolve a cubist technique, his apple tree was whittled away to the barest schema of blossom and branches. The larger Continental exhibition showed even more clearly how he continued to revert to Nature for fresh motives to schematise, in what he called excluding the arbitrary." Thus a brick facade was reduced to living Tm.p' cars ago Mr Od ts had us wailing for Lef the sk i 1 1 less naiveK Mr KcLkelt bid-s wail lor Godot, the s.pn 1 1 u.d I signpost. His two tt amps pass the lime ot day just as we, the HudicnuC, arc passing ihe time ol night Were we not in the theatre, wc should hkc them, be clowning and aimlessly bickering j)mlcssl making up alt. as one ol ihcm s.ls.

"to give us die im-pieson thai we exist" r. Bcckctfs i ramps do no: ol icn talk hkc that. For the p. i ihc converse in ihc do ol vaudeville, one ol mem has the ragged aplomb ol Mi Hi i sic i Keaton, the other is al his airiest and taincsi. heir exchanpe arc hkc those 1 inns a i the next table which one Omost but not guile deciphers human speech half-heard and vmi ail its non cqutf urv ab-KurdK linaei From hmc to time niher charaelcts intrude.

Fat Poz7n. Humplv Dumplv uiih i whip in his ftsi, purls mto sight with Luckv, his dumb sIhvc The. ae cie.trK pomp sinncwheic in a hun perhaps thev knuw where Godot is 1 But the iniei-view subside lnio Lewis Carrol ha inanitv. All thai emerges is that the master needs the slave as much as the slave needs ihc master, 11 pives both a sense of spurious purpose, and Line ihinks of Laurel and the ideal casting in these roles-Commanded to think. Ludt stammers out a ghostly, ghastly, intermin Thesis films are popular these days in what passes for the serious cinema (there are not many picturegoers left to recognise that the early Chaplin comedies were more serious acts of cinema than most of the grave works that followed them).

It is difficult to go to the pictures now without stubbing your toe against a thesis. From the pictures you learn that The colour problem is a serious problem. Criminals are mentally sick people Great power corrupts. Tvrants invile their own downfall. Poor people are nicer than rich people.

Loneliness warps the soul. The future is in the hands of vouth. nanu1 Sec rhc IN hi1, M-lr. pet Mi 'ihui Bl.ikc Stars i DuLh-j-si. time.

The individual and concrete examples were expressed in the pictorial images. Often the words and the pictures strikingly reconciled two separate points and chimed brilliantly together. In Down Yoo Go, Paul Jennings appeared as a kind of parlour game prodigy. This is one of the mildest and least irritating of these entertainments, appealing to the crossword puzzle mind. So successful was Jennings that, unless the clues are more ingeniously scrambled next time, there will be hardly any point in hiring other members for the panel.

Robinson Crusoe was illustrated in the Radio Times with a photograph of two girls 'in their little sisters' bathing costumes arched forward like the carved figureheads of a sailing ship. Nothing so naughty or so nautical appeared in the programme which was just about what you would expect of a pantomime tn water." Tt was like a giant ice show bogged down during a sudden thaw. The Scarecrow was a horribly-imaginative French cartoon which lost most of its point with the loss of hnw4 htmcli cnthiiMdtc bii iliphils fhscsscJ tcnialc His nil iif liimons atnl ticcictl unmcn. sulIi M. Kimic-vclt nnd Miss Bctic Davis, is cnlitcK Plivmp men he is ntLich -ldmirablc less SCCUIC- RADIO NOTES: By PAUL FERRIS KEPT thinking there wooluVfee sentenced to spen First Nights I o-sk wjkuvs Vrudf.

F-csjia( Hslll Tirin 1 hr Rtmunsirk' Orrr At. Rcprnt Park I VVsnNisn-o. I itkr Your Pick (New Lindsr i i receiving its nrst performance), despite its talented first movement, proved rhythmically a shade uninven-tive. Stravinsky's recent Shakespeare Songs," finely sung by Miss Bowden. appeared as undeniable masterpieces.

But the surprise of the f-cstival was a setting of four Lorca a oatoh in Thp Pnrantf irisfflfe -front of a television set he might be siven some good Picturesque, a mundane acootat- radio scripts to read. There was one the Lakes, out early tourism a system of plus and minus signs his search for a universal harmony leading him at length to painting purely geometrical designs in primary colours, intended for modern interiors. Fry," confided Tonks once, has been continually trying to find the source of the Golden Egg, and of course he can't." Mondriaan believed he had. At any rate, when he died in New York in 1944, his essays in balance and tension had left him nothing further to say, though something still for Mr. Ben Nicholson to embellish.

Extraordinarily imaginative though doctrinaire, sensuous and puritanical at once, Holland's most influential figure since Van Gogh remains an absorbing study. the catch had come earlier, in the songs by Austin Rennick a local composer! sincere and moving in a genuinely Spanish idiom. Most of the Festival's defects, such as loud orchestral playing and helplessness of operatic production, could be remedied if the Arts Council would back this obvious winner even more largely than to date. H. H.

not unattractive billing. It was a long forty-five minutes a paste-pot or reference-library script, without twist, edge or purpose other than to provide posthumous re-publication for what somebodies said about the Lakes in eighteen hundred and something. Not only whether a programme succeeds, but whether it should have been written that way in ihe first place, needs looking into nowadays; it seems fair to say that anyone found in possession of a script littered with banal descriptive bits should be colour, size and clarity. It might have been an early Felix the Cat projected on a hand-operated epidiascope. The evening ended with a tele-recording, also rather muzzy and blurred, of The Sacred Flame.

This grand old stager of repertory was given a vigorous but not too exhausting gallop that admirably suited its age and blood pressure. All in all, who will boast that these two evenings are the sort which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner. BALLET DESIGNS: SJgD about Dartmoor a lew months ago that described without being overtly descriptive perhaps the art of being a raconteur, of being able to describe what your holiday town was like without invoking maps and snapshots, or drawing sketches all over the guide book, is the necessary one. Somehow all but the best feature programme! have an air of trying: we'll make a rather abstruse point, and then we'll go on to a passage of colourful dialogue, and then we II have Effects, and then. And then I think I'll turn off; or at least torn to something less painstaking.

Peter Pears, talking on the Third about Writing for tat Voice, gave a solo performance full of charm and information. An Australian, filling in a few minutes after a Prom with a despatch, gave a kind of Kangaroo Notebook interval words make a change from interval music and seem to be finding more favour. And then there was Hermione Gingold, doing, notably, a Mrs. Doom's Diary sketch. No one seemed to be trying here no one needed to.

That gatpmt; voice moved about like an elastic apparition; (nil is the only progTamma know whera the studio audience seems permanently unsure of itself, not quite clear if all these jokes are jokes and this wild woman is quite safe. To-day's Radio and Television Programmes Dobujinsky's Kingdom of the Sweets, designed for the Sadler's Wells Casse-Noiselte in 1936. This was pretty and fantastic, but on the whole again like Benois he is best when he designs with his feet on the ground. The seventeenth-century Paris houses behind the fruit-stalls in the first scene of the original American production of Mamzelle Angot are conceived with knowledge and affection, as are the costumes of street vendors for the same ballet. The gilded satjoo of Graduation Ball is charming.

And how touching in Dobujinsky's setting for the first production of Ballet Imperial (so much superior to Berman's) is the glimpse he gives us of monuments on the banks of the Neva at St. VISITORS to the Festival Ballet at Royal Festival Hall should not fail to see the exhibition of ballet designs by Mstislav Dobujinsky, which is being held in that building. Dobujinskv and Benois are the onlv two survivors of the famous movement Mir isskustva. the World of Art. which brought about a renaissance of art in Russia at the turn of the century and produced, among olher things, the Diaghilev Ballet.

In their eighties both Dobujinsky and Benois (who has just held a big exhibition with two other members of his brilliant family at Comol are still active. Like Benois. Dobujinsky is both a man of the theatre and a scholar of art: both are erudite, devoted and professional. 1 remember as a youth admiring the sugary Tightness of Twentv Questions, 2.15, "The Barlowes ot Beddington 2.45. The Man About Town.

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Chamber Music. s33, The Arcbaoisma 7.50, Concert; Approach to Self -Government In the Comznonsrealth: 9.45. Anton Webern, 10.5S-11JO, Alps and Elephants. TELEVISION. 5.0-6.0.

Children: 7.30. Newireel; 7.45, Find the Link; S.1S, Cities of Europe Londom; t.40. Preview of tho Edinburgh Fothral; 1 .41, Night Was Our Friend 10.15. Paul Tortolier; 10.45, Evening Hysxvn; News (sntind only). HOME (330 Newi: S.15.

Morn-ina Melody: Organ; 9.30. Service, to.15, la Search of the Put; 19.30, Concert Choice. Cridcs; l.e. News; 1.1. Country Town; 1.40, Ooeretoi Record: 2.15.

Literary Portraits; 2.30, County Count; 3.0. Coo-cert; 4.M. Tjchlflety'i Rifle; 4J0, Cmtl the Tune; 5.0, Children: Nen; 6. IS. Education In West Africa: 6.M.

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Further Tale from Che Pacific; 10.15. Chamber Music: 10.52, Epilogue; 11.0, News. LIGHT (I.SO0 m.i 247 S.t. Light Music, S.45, Accordion; 9.0, News; 10.0. Chapel in the Valley: 10.3, Homespun Tunes, 11.0.

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Thur -Sal Schebera-Fsde, Hude. lor Fuo WAT 3111 ROl vl FFSHVM Ha.lt. WT 5191). 1h i 'SV 4 lo and to arKl SISDWS 1 A 21 M'tjlST SI 1-1 LSI hRMON IN TfrtlMCOLOR OF PI CCIN1 OPF.R Ihe industry which does not look ahead has no future, whether it is producing battleships or beer, fabrics or films. The film-maker must have a programme, just as the architect must have a plan.

In providing entertainment for millions of cinemagoers all over the world, the J. Arthur Rank Organisation knows "that it must look ahead constantly. It must promise comedy, drama, romance, excitement and novelty. It must regularly give its customers a good supply of good films. Fourteen years ago the Rank Organisation was unknown.

Today it is by far the largest unit in the British Film Industry, producing some twenty first-feature films a year, selling them at home and in the highly competitive international market. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS DME BUTTERFLY (V) ft 1 1 Noni ihe r.ikai a till 1 BnJ (him and (r.helr.i the R'lV rict-R mil SF RI i1E THEATRES, soacstr ot ants itji unnu. VILLAGE FEUD Fer-nandel gives a brilliant performance Standard. VTOLETTES IMPERIALES l. CARLTON.

A CINEMASCOPE Picture. Clarlc Gable. Sutan Hayward. Soldier of Fortune IAJ. Col.

To-day 4.30. 7.23. Wkdys fr 1 3. CASINO. Ger 6877.

CJuermeso U). 4.45. 7.30. WHdys. 3 Perfj.

2 30. 6.0 8.40 Bookable CIPfEPHONE (opp Selfndges) MAY 4721. The Beach tX) (adults only). Marline Carol. The Yellow Balloon tAl.

Kenneth More Great double feature programme. CONTINENTALE. W.l. MUS 4193. BatUe-shap PotrsakJa IXl.

Roseau Holl day U. CURZON. Gro. 3737. RIM (X).

Masterpiece of suspense." Ev. Standard. 4.35. 7.15. EMPIRE.

Ger 1234. Today 5.20 g.S. Lane Turner, Edmund Purdom In The Proatlgal (A) CtnemaScope. Perspecta Sound. EVERYMAN.

Hampstead 1525. Today The Conquest of Everest IL'l. Mon' Cry, the Beloved Coflatrr (A). Thurs: The lsaportausca of Being Earnest IU). FORUM.

Fulbam Road. KEN. 5234. To-day Brilliant Italian comedy Sunday in August IU). Maria Cesares Bsrasrrres 1A).

GAUMONT. Havmltt. THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON IU1 col. 5.20. 8 5 LEIC.

SO. TH. Olivia de Hsyilland. Robert Mitchum Frank Sinatra. Gloria Grahame.

Brodenck Crawford. Charles Bickford. in NOT AS A STRANGER IA1 4 45, 7 40. LONDON PAV. To-day Irom 4 30 (Door.

4 Richard Todd. Dawn Addams. Francome Arnoul. Martlne Carol. THE BED (X.

Marble arch pavilion. Kirk Dougiu. Sllvana Mangano In ULYSSES (U), Technicolor Programmes 4 30. 10 ODEON, Leic. So istaVuoon.

IKICTOR AT SEA 1UI. In Tech At 5 30. 25 Dpi 4 ODEON. Mblc Arch John Mills. Yvonne Mitchell Alanalr Sim in ESCAPADE IL'l.

WINDFALL IU). 4.30. 7 20 Doors 4 RI SLTO. A Cinemascope Picture Marilyn Monroe. Tom Ewcll The Seven Y'ear lleh (A) CoJ Today i 30.

0 Wkdy from 12 35 RITZ. Ger 1234 To-day al 5 15 A 7 50 Gafbo lelurns in M's CaMILLE iai. Robert Taylor LM! 4 daw STUDIO ONE. Disney THE VANISHING PRAIRIE IU) ai 4 30 6 40. 8 50 AIo SIAM tUI.

Dm 4 pm. Last prog. 7 50 WARNER (Gerrard 14231 James Desn in LAST OF EDEN (A). CinemaScope Col To-dsy 4 30 7 15. Wkdys from 10.20 LYRIC.

H'snilth. Rlr. 443J. Be. 7.30.

Ttaurs. A Sat. 2 30. Dorothy Tutin In THE LARK. or Anomlh.

Trans. Fry. Last week. NEW Tern 3878. 7.45 Sal 3.30, 8.30.

Tue. 231) Nijel Painck. Elizabeth Scllars. Hugh Wakeneld Resnrkable Mr. PenairpsnAer.

"A hilannus show cheered solid." D. Exp. NEW WATERGATE. TRA 6233 9. Revue.

2nd Edn. HAPPY RETURNS. Mean Si- VI. OPEN AIR tHun 0925). Tu.

nil. 7.30. W. 2 30. Roeasntleks.

2.30. 7.30. The Dream. PALACE. Oer 6834.

(Aug. 8-13) KING LEAR. 7 ill 2 30 Glelgud Ashcrott. Bloom. Ltaicr.

Shakevpcarc Mem. Th Co (Aug. 15-20) MUCH ADO. 7 30 2 10 (6 wk only). Com Sept.

20 ITALIAN OPERA. Now Bkt. PALLADIUM. Gcr. 7373 6 8 45 Weds.

2 40 GUY MITCHELL. Buiy de Wolfe, etc PHOENIX (Tetn 86111. 7.30. St. 2.30.

L-1 lit Palmer. BELL BOOK CANDLE, by John Drulcn. London's Gayest Comedy uh Athene Seyler and Esmond Knisht. PICCADILLY. (Ger 4506).

Com. Tuea. nxt. Evs 3 Thur A Sal 5.30 A 8 30 Brazilians All-Coloured Ba I el-M usica 4 weeks only. PRINCF OF WALES Whl B6SI.

6H 4 8 50 BbNMY HILL in New and Exciting Fi.lics Reraerc PARK BY NIGHT. Tommy Corner PRINCES. Ev. 7 45 S. 5.30 8 30 Th 2 30 Jack Hyllon prcs WONDERFUL TOWN.

Sham VValtis Sidncv Jamcv Tcm 6596. ROYAL COURT. Evs. 8 Mat. Th 2 30.

5 Mix vdriao. Betty Msrwleo. June Whit-hcld Rnbard Tone in From Here Si There. ST. JAMES'S Whi 31031.

Evm 7 30 Sat 2 30 Ern. Portman. Mamarct Leighlun in separate Tables by Terence Ratligan. ST. RUM'S.

Ev- 15. Sal 5 30. 15. Tu 2 JO Twtst) VBautes Ml'SICAL SAVTI.LE. Tem40ll 7 45 Wed.

Sal 2 10 John Oemenli. Jane Basler. Raymond Hunljev. Patrick Barr in The Shadow of DoabL S4.VOY. Ev "45 Sat 5 10 8.30 Wed 2 43.

Marejrcl LOCK WOOD wuh Fein Aylraer in Asatha CHRISTIE'S SPIDER'S WEB. STOI.L. Hoi 3701 30 Sat 2.30 8 10 2 10 ALFRED DRAKE In svJSME I wilh Doretta Morrow. Joan Diener. STRAND tTem 26601 "10 15.

8 30 Th 2 10 Peggy Mount SAILOR BEWARE. A million shattrnnB laugh -Daily Mirror. UDFII.LE. Evas Ji Sat. 8 Th 2 30 Ml Slt'AL SALAD DSYS.

2nd Year VICTORIA PALACE. kt 1317 615 8 45 TH 1 CRAZY GVNG SJervo A Knos Bud Flanagan. Naushtun A Gold Jokers Wild. WH1IEHVLL. JO.

Hi 2 30 Sat '15. S.15 lohn Suici. Brtan Rn. Bjm' I old Dry Rot. WINDMILL.

Pier. Cirt KEY CDFVILLE. 24i year 2ih Edn (3rd week) Com dl 12 I'-10 1' Last Perl pm A Van Damm Produvrion "WE NF ER CIOSED WYDH.M'S. Tern 3028 Les 8 30 Sat 30 10 Wet) 2 10 THE BOY FRIEND. I phi CONCERTS MUL ALBERT HALL HENRY WOOD PROMENADE CONCERTS RRC pre will i 61 ir Nlthllv (Sundays excrpledl at 7.

JO. imtil Saturday, Sept. Proapeclua I6d I and Ticket! 8,6. 5, i si Hall (Ken. 82121 A Aaents.

AM vests sold lor Aua. 13, Sept 3. 17 2 non PROMENADE, 26 mahtly ai doom. ROYAL ALSSrRT HauT St NDAY, AUG. Mth AT 8PM America's most famous choir THE SALT LAKE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR FROM UTAH.

S.A. Ave Verum Ltlct Come. Btrst Repose (Cboral Bach Listen lo tile Lambs Dsjr Alletall TanaW Psatm XXIII Lei the Mountains Sftovt for joy. 2 lJs? Bo Handel Beho d. God the Lord Passes By jf ndntsokn Behold, ihe Posncr of lesus' Name alt Van than Williams 9.lr- Laud, and Honour, art Schrtlmr My Redeemer LWes Gattt Rise! Up! Artie! Mendelsohn Also wvrk hr Tcnrmokov.

Worst CnvtanA. reston. Rnbertron Cla ton. Jenkins. Cousins.

The choh- rem hear In Cinerama at tha London Casino. Tickets ie6. 76. 36. Siandjaa at 21 from usual aienis or ho -office fKen ml).

Nob No ttrkels east be sold OS fas aetaal day nT EDUCATIONAL st. oodhics secretarial COLLEGE. 2. Arkwnshi Road. London i.

Tel HAMtKErad 198(4 St Oodrtc'i ii a day and rtiident.al Cnlleee Lad en is of horn a quarter come rVoffl abroad Snecialmed Traintnt for differeM brancheji of aecretana worlr Laruruaiet and foreim shorthands. Imenaive iratftmc for GraJrjatea The High rtandard ot St Godne'i training recotnifled by emDloyer throughout the EnglLsh Courses for Foreign Siu-dem Apply W. LoverWgt, A (Cantab GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION. The Rapid Reulta Cotlece fEtt lfi proldea up-to-date lurtwsTt for G.C TJnEveriity deireea and proenfonal natninaiicini Accountancy, Secret a ryshrip. Law.

Clil Service. Local Govt. Banking. Ac NO PASS NO FEE Guarantee. For FREE 100-oafe Boo write to-day to The Princirraf THE RAPID RESULTS COLLEGE, Dent 022F.

Tultkm Home. Lrnidoti. SWj (or caH at 215. Grand BtiiUfhiaa. Trafa'nr-Sq C-2 Open weekdayt.

including Saturday momingn Tel WHI 8T7i TOREICN L.NGL1AGESt New term private A cluti tuttkm daily am-" LocVifl Scrtool for I.aneuaaes. 20 1 Prince Hanover Sq 1 Tel MWfair 2120 IDEAL CAREER" FOR THF TNTEX TG izTT MODERN YOtJNO WOMAN Stcnotypin i machrne jihorthsftd) is qufek Iv rd eauirv leamt uxed increMaRfllr hy leading home and iLfAaril, 'n. lilt 1 VLK OF IHE IOW7M. il 1 rm "n-l Spn. lauuhier RrMie IIWK II IHl BD a- 1 1) i Sal special contributions And so to the cutting-rooms and laboratories, before going on into the complexities of distribution and exhibition Tiida hlm-makim; is one of Britain's most important and influential industries The Arthur Rank Organisation is proud to be providing hncr entertainment for more people than cs cr bctorc Todav the men who plan ahead have their ccs on next year's target And, however h-ig the programme, there is no prototype lor films Each is a new creation On the studio floor everv camera shot is planned and even- set has its blueprint In the workshops, carpenters, plasterers, painters, scenic artists, electricians, metal workers nd cnsinecrs al! make their Sin 1 10 10 Mn.hai-1 Reditrar Waller I TIGER ST THE Irur-lalcJ ov Fry VTFS.

IS I Si.n Waillnc I t.odi, VMRRIIK.h. ten rha K-hn. Hdc Paintings Drawlnn hy BOl'DIN, COROT. COURBET. DFG AS LATOl PICASSO.

SIGN AC A others Uaily 10-5 30, Sal. 10-12 30 OH ANA GALLERY. 13 Carlos Place. Gros-venor Sq. Exhibition of French Masters of llh A 20th Century Mon -Fn 10-6- TME REDFERN GALLERY, 20.

Cork Street. I SUMMER EXHIBITION OF 1VI5 Hour 10-6 Sat. 10-1 Cloves Aub 27lh ST. GEORGE'S GALLERY. Cora I JOAN EARDLEY.

first one-man eshioition. Sr Georse Gallery London Group Prizewinner Important PICASSO tTCHINGS. 1't FOLR FRENCH REALLSTV Arts Council Exhihinon of Pamtinas by Andr MlDStus, Ginettc Ranp. Rocer Montane. Jean Vtnay TATF GALLERY Open till 4 Scot weekday.

10-6 ITae. Thurs. 10-81. Suns 2-6 Admission free SOME WATER-COI OURS DRAWINGS OF TO-DA1. Al KER GALLERIES, 1 18 New Bond St MONDRIAAN lin2-l44: retro.pecllye exhnM-lion WHITECHAPEL ART OALLERY.

Wkdys 11-6. Suns 2-6, closed Mondays Admrwon free Adjoins Alfjsale Easl Slanon ZHF.MMER GALLERY, 26. Litchfield St WC2 Vol NG MIDLAND ARTISTS Alia. 9-Sept 10 Daily 10-6 p.m. Inc.

Sats EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITION art THE BUILDING CENTRE. Tuticnham Cnun Road 1 xi- a all'1 and creative tab of Londnn apprentice. 9 30 a io m. Saturday Admin ion Free BRIGHTON I ROYAL PAVILION, Rec encr LxMbiuon. Original PavUJon rjrniiurc lent from Buckmaham Palace by gracious wilh of H-M.

the Queen. Gold-plate and iJlver by Regency uaficmeo. The State and Private Apartments completely furnished Nw rmorxtiorn and eihibiu. 10 to 8 daily, incliKtins Sunday HOVE MUSEUM OP ART. PatntLot ti a Pleasure Exhibjinm direct from ihe Traf-fnrd fJallerv London Admhsion 2'- by illustraied catalrnrae Proceed Tor Toe Houn 10-1.

2-5 daily 2.iO-5 Sunday WOOLLANDS OF NIC HTOBRJpQE. S.W.I, tiac pleasure in presenting an Exhibition of selected work by the Rnyal Col. cue of Art in Leramtcn nilver aw, and other branches nf industrial desien From Ann flth tn- 27. in the Modern nteru'r on the third floor ZOO. Argent" Park Open Oiiiry 9am 2 10.

Adult J.i. Cfeild Or.c 1 1 111 BIIK HM T1 Bl I IM1 I (lllvll iSrm i i VI 1 'in HI .1 i- It Porter HVHV RI imillN vv n. 1 ii lnilmjiry al VO Ro.jr )Hl 1 IM. iU-r niiii lb hiac and I. Ill kF.

OF HIRX-s. lem Fv 1 M.rL. IN 'n rtfl. Pa I ,1 Will) 1HVMI. tvtPHhss I I KKn.nd Ml XHVl Mr vt (mwi st.ir hllll WI1.DF1BF.

I.r Miukil LIC -4- wj in vita ft i ui 1:1: t.rr I a "JU VV CJ Sal lei Fralja lltiams r))laa Ibnaosa (jrowiaa p- al crk i1! vn cJ 1 i.inr SrnniJ a Mr Wrllic ART GALLERIES, IHVVUKMI. VV 1 1 SHAKF-SPFARF MEMORIAL THEATRE. The th Seaton ol Play ti, William Shakr-ircJaU-c Evcntnjcn at 7 HI Matintes Thun-dav- and Saiurday ai 2 JO 2 tt to 14 Ticket, from London Aienu or Box Office. RESTAURANT 10 I A HJiMcr VlKriicI HrR MUl-T hi ROYAL ACADEMY, SUMMER EXHIBITION To-day 2-fi Admusion 2s. Lart week ACNEW i Old MsMcrx at under 200, 43, Old I Bond Strecl.

W.l BFtUX ARTS GALLERY. Brutcm Plact. 1 SUMMER EXHIBITION. 10-5 30 Sau. 10-1 VICTORIAN AMERICA." Currier A We Pnou 28 Portman Square Mon IU a.tn -4 p.m.

Sunday 2-6 p.m Admuwioa ART GALLERY. Cbarina Croo- Road. Exhibition of FIESTA GLASS. clly fine Sais) until 27ih August Adm Free G1MPEL M. 0.

South Mohan Si 1 SUMMER EXHIBITION. Owreinporary Btth French 0 FN I A I N'T with a charts of its ni JIlPrOOROMF. (jci THF DfsPFRATF HOI Rv overscan nreaniiatJOna Tor reroatim report ma and rfiBrlrr-iTrade ecr eta rial work tnifrrUng and T(HTriYt prwtii wti-h opioTt i urut ir fat i work aornad Oood rerouneration and ttattta. Demand for trained rtrnorvtrfitu no rxceedal cipp1v U'nte for pronecroi of day nd evenhag i r. H-inrnr or raM fnt demonrttalion palnntTp CiHeee 22 3,1 Hi ah RoVbortf WCl.

I Teicoh.e WOT born 5tI THE ARTHUR RANK ORGANISATION LIMITED i fr' ear arrK nunaacrocni mui rt a rcion Con 1 1 chanaing attrav.ti tr menu cnurrls meal or hajrty mack quHi ril: de'iciou i-mclctie 3-deA sandwctvtr. Noon to 1 1 0 rm GRILL A CAFE Si. Twvad CTv.ua iHt Lett oft Shut ttabuty A1. Ml lbrrt rifiT i.