... Czechoslovakia From Prague to Monte Carlo, 50 minutes no subtitles THE Czechs were invited to the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo to stage a television show and this was the result. The Czechs told us they had only the stage lighting, two cameras and one hand held and if the result was a bit gloomy at times, that was a reason. It was a mix of live performance and a well known Czech puppet theatre ...

... Great Britain (ITV Thames) The Plank, 27 minutes THE first ITV entry was placed here and it brought the festival to life for the first time. Everybody laughed a lot. Everybody also mentioned that had the entry been in the humorous category B it surely had to be in the running for the Golden Rose. ...

... Holland (NOS) Jan J. de Bom, Before the Friend of Children, 30 minutes, English subtitles ONE out of a series for children which dealt with problems such as those at school, those with parents, homework, sex, and fear, this programme offended some delegates. The subjects in the series arise from letters sent in by young viewers. The Dutch chose the programme on sex for Montreux since it was ...

... Holland Martine Show, 38 minutes THIS was the first show in Category B. (Humour). The star, Martine Bibi, sings and goes in for sit com by the look of it, for here (and she was a co-writer of the show) we had an ironic look at Christmas rituals. She first sang in English accompanied by four girls dressed as Santa Claus before going into a sketch about a well known television quizmaster who ...

... Belgium Urbanus, Dead or Alive, 35 minutes, English subtitles THE name in the title belongs to the writer and star of the show. He is doubtless a clever chap but we very much doubt his sense of humour would be to British taste. He is bearded, long haired and of medium height. The story began with him going into a bank with a stocking mask on his head and being con- fronted by the staff who ...

... West Germany Nonstop Nonsense, 24 minutes, English subtitles A FAST Buster Keaton type opening to the music of the Donald O'Connor number Be a Clown was the intro for the first sketch with the star in all the main roles as a petrol station attendant for whom everything goes wrong when an attractive blonde turns up in her Mercedes. The air hose jams and one of her tyres blows up; the petrol ...

... France Collaro Show, 47 minutes, English subtitles (in blue) THE title came from the name of the writer and producer Stephane Col laro. Alas, it was another dud, un funny French show fussily put together. Television was meant to be the theme how to get- into it. executives, and how ideas are worked out. The linking was either the newsreader idea or by one of the performers. A still cartoon ...

... Hungary Toothache, 23 minutes, no subtitles THE middle-aged office manager goes to work with a toothache and it distracts him and he begins to visualise people's faces distorted. The office beauty is the centre of a lot of the camera's attention and in one sequence he pictures her doing a striptease on a table. He goes to a chemist, takes a pho tograph of himself in a booth to see what he ...

... List!-- Lift! Oh. List! Radio is responsible for interest ing development. When the Home Wireless craze arose in America drew attention to it and pro phesied that we should soon see it worked here from our own broad casting centres. This has already been done with the Carpentier Lewxa fitfbt. Now America if starting on another method of oon Yuriin* movies into apeakiee. Already monv U.S. ...

... Why Not See More Hicks? I interviewed Seymour Hicks recently. He told me that he has arranged to appear in ten new comedy films with Miss Ellaline Terriss This will be his first screen attempt for several years. Before the was he had a fling at kinoma acting, and these were early days, when picture producing ua* still in its early etoge, and he did not think much ...

... THE executive committee of Equity considered on Tuesday morning the position arising from the dispute between the Musicians' Union and the BBC and issued the following instruction to all members of Equity Members are in structed riot to intervene in the dispute between the Musicians' Union and the BBC by accepting engagements offered in substitution for the employment of musicians. Naunton ...

... THE story of Star Maker is certainly not an original idea. It has all been done before, but never, one imagines, with such zest and animation as in this newesi offering. The book is witty, and the latest music from the new team of Ornadel and Croft fulfils one's STAR MAKER 1 Musical play with book by lan Stuart Black, music and lyrics by Cyril Ornadel and David Croft, choreography by Mark ...