... Cth t&T'ifxAjfff Salad Days (Vaudeville) BAD acting often enchants by virtue of its very artlessness. Only it must be true artlessness. One unfortunate touch of precociously acquired technique, and the quality that delights us in the spon taneous acting ...

... NEW SALAD FOR JADED PALATES George Gulley EVERY so often (a phrase which can be taken to mean infrequently) a new idea creeps into the entertainment business. In the case of Share My Lettuce at the Lyric, Ham mersmith, the newcomer is more of a flavour ...

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... Summertime Apollo Surprisingly, the now inevitable Ugo Betti wrote a play for a Salad Days audience. This (Henry Reed's version) is the lightest of comedies, a mountain picnic in North Italy fifty years ago. Gcraldine McEwan gets her man (Dirk Bogarde) ...

... permanent waiter whose job is shaking. He and resident survive all blasts No wonder when the parts are played by Gordon Harker (salad oil) and Marjorie Fielding (complete cruet). Rex Frost's document- comedy is lively and well done and I see no reason to be ...

... for the most part a medley from past revues does bring back La Loge. And what don't Thelma Ruby and Jimmy Thompson do to Salad Days THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNY- PACKER Here is Mr. Pennypacker (Nigel Patrick) with one of his wives (Elizabeth Sellars) and ...

... some agreeable singing (Denis Quilley's, for example), and the visual invention of Ronald Searle. I was quite as happy as at Salad Days let us leave it at that. Nothing seems to make the angry passions rise so much as discussion of the modern musical. ...

... astonishingly long- lived Salad Days at the Vaudeville with a new show, might have done well to ponder the worldly wisdom of this austere rule of authorship. The replacement turns out to be a close and inferior imitation of Salad Days and at curtain fall ...

... countryside. Hardly hilarious, but the mixture of grimness with gaiety is an old tradition of the cinema, dating at least from the salad days of Alfred Hitchcock, and in Charade Mr Donen shows that he has learned a trick or two from the old master. The film opens ...

... disinterred a Broadway success and a West End near-miss to bring in audiences. If you can imagine Ten Little Niggers and Salad Days brewing together in tne same barrel, then this James McDonald-David Vos-Robert Gerlach-Ed Linderman concoction will ...

... and you have the theme of Anna Russell Sings. Mr. Strauss Comes to Boston tells its own story. The Pajama Game, Kismet and Salad Days will last for a long time yet. Frank Sinatra's Wee Small Hours, Peggy Lee's Black Coffee, Pete Kelly's Blues, That ...

... Miss Vida Hope which had spared no sort of trouble to authenticate the period insipidities that were to be guyed. Coming to Salad Days at the Vaudeville we again encounter inspiration, but one different in kind and one, as we remember, that took critical ...