... On Saturday the Actor's Theatre presented a new play by Alasdair Grant called The Silent Jackdaw. This plav might be more accept able if 20th-century audiences be lieved in witchcraft. It is well written, with many effective situations find some poetically- embroidered dialogue; but one is left with a feeling of detach ment through being unable to share the superstitious emotions of the ...

... London-born Antony Tudor, artistic administrator of the Bal let Theatre of New York, now dancing at Covent Garden, spoke from the stage of the Scala on Sunday evening to an audience who had gathered to see a pro gramme of ballet films, presented by the London Archives of the Dance. Mr. Tudor suggested that all ballets should be filmed at the time of their creation, thereby establishing a ...

... PAGEANTRY AT OLYMPIA On December 17 the twenty-second season of Bertram Mills's Circus opened at Olympia. From the grand opening parade to the finale there is presented a spectacular variety of animal, aerial, tumbling, and clowning acts with such speed that the three hours are never allowed to drag. Before and after the shows, and during the interval, there is a fun-fair adjoining the ...

... BERTRAM MILLS In full spangled glory Bertram Mills's Circus has opened once again. The Sylvans. two men and a woman with horses, whose tricks are original and cleverly carried out. give the first act. Then come the Tovarich Troupe, a brilliant company of who twist and turn and ?ti each other with amaz- 'Mity and beauty of form and line. Peggy Holt presents her Symphony in Grey, an equine ...