... 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 ...

... Fredd Wayne's Success At the Berkeley Restaurant. W.l, Fredd Wayne (from South Pacific scores a marked success with original patter, catchy songs, and crisp lyrics. At the start, after mentioning very many introductions and their outcome-- Flanagan meet ing Allen, Ava Gardner meeting Frank Sinatra, and so on he presents himself to patrons. Sly digs at British types are worked in, a brief but ...

... Sean Fielding IN war, and because of it, many men come to the first discovery of their full stature. This is a simple truth which, however morally and intellectually disturbing, is well understood. For equally well-understood reasons, it never fails to cause surprise. The soldier who wins a Victoria Cross is most liable to have his closest friends (in civilian life) declare their astonishment: ...

... THEY WERE MARRIED The TATLER'S Review BAILEY-- LINDSAY The wedding took place at Newcastle County Down, between Cdr. Edward Anthony Savile Bailey, M.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. second son of Mrs. W. A. Bailey, of Kingston Manor, Taunton, and of the late Mr. W. H. Bailey, and Miss Florence Claire (Sukhi) Lindsay, younger daughter of the late Mr. D. C. Lindsay, and of Mrs. F. Lindsay, of Eniskeen, ...

... Uy E. V. Knox I have heard Maynard Keynes des scribed as a financial wizard with an astonishing flair for new monetary devices and economic schemes in the adjustment of our affairs between World Wars One and Two; and again as a man who, in the course of juggling with the world's commercial chaos, managed to make a fortune for himself and (as bursar) for King's College, Cambridge. Something of ...

... Balloonist* Beware Anthony Cooliiiiiiii NOTHING (fortunately) has happened to cause Miss Beatrice Lillie, during her long absence abroad, to change her belief that we are all living in a completely mad world. She comes back to us at the Globe just the same terrible child that we remember in the 'thirties-- so open-eyed to our general absurdity that it hardly seems to matter which of our pet ...

... E. V. Knox RETURNING from an alcoholic progress round the greater part of the un civilised globe, Mr. S. J. Perelman narrates his Odyssey in The Swiss Family Perelman (Reinhardt and Evans; 12s. 6d.) and we note with sorrow that America finds him in as much trouble as the barbarous lands beyond. He makes you laugh. It is rather like reading a mixture of P. G. Wodehouse and Mark Twain and Mr. ...

... Chicken Every Sunday (Savoy) IT is a sobering reflection for those who make light of national differences that the airiest trifles when put to the test are found to have their roots deep in the soil of a particular country. We all know that while on one side of the English Channel Racine is despised and Shakespeare worshipped, on the other Shake speare is tolerated and Racine adored, but here ...

... RECORD DF THE WEEK THE musical taste of the general public often takes a curious' twist, and those who are sworn anti-jazzites suddenly become conscious that something of this day and age is worth while. In the same way the jazz fiend discovers that the basis of this type of music is often directly traceable to a solid knowledge of the classics. Thus it is interesting to see that Sidney Torch ...

... Elizabeth Bcwen s BROWNS AND CHESTER: A Portrait of a Shop (Lindsay Drummond; 15s.) has an unusual author-- Mass-Observation. Up to now, this form of research has been applied to contemporary affairs; and enlighten ing, if sometimes startling, have its results been --we have been documented, if one may so put it, up to the hilt. We may still be ignorant as to our neighbours' ways of life if ...

... THERE are two recent recordings of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and though it may seem too much to suggest that both versions of this major work are heard, no one who really enjoys and appreciates music should miss listening to one or other set of records. Apart from the actual performance of the orchestras concerned, both recordings show how much in advance British recording systems are ...