... . A NEW screen role for Margaret Lockwood is that of a girl who, losing her sight, seeks sanctuary in a convent and the film, Madness of the Heart, is an adaptation of Flora Sandstrom's successful novel. Miss Lockwood is now touring in Noel Coward's Private Lives. ...

... . MONTACUTE, one of an increasing number of England's great houses which have passed from the hands of their original owners into the care of the National Trust and are open to the public, is one of her finest Elizabethan mansions. It was built between 1588 and 1601 by Sir Edward Phelips, successful lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons. It is essentially extravagant-domestic the grand ...

... LET'S GC RACING I REFERENCES to the uncertainties of racing are no longer con- fined to forecasting the first three horses past the post. Racing covers many fields-- in every sense To go racing used to mean, almost automatically, a day at Ascot or Goodwood or Sandown Park, ot any of a dozen famous courses where horses galloped and bookmakers! shouted and the crowds cheered, I But as horses ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO.., AND WE APPLAUD rHE three Poile sisters aged twenty-one, seventeen and thirteen years-- H all horsewomen since the age of four, have a long line of successes behind H them, and last season won over 120 prices for jumping. Recently they all three I took prizes at the West Kent Pony Club Hunter Trials at Heverham, Kemsing, I Kent Susan on Freddie, Barbara on Madam, and ...

... , For hitching his stardom to a dictatorship. SOME talk of Alexander and some of Paul Scofield. Bouquets had already come his way for his work at Stratford-upon-Avon, but the imaginative understanding with which he plays Alexander the Great in Adventure Story at the St. James's brought him to the top in a night. Echoes of Olivier are caught in his manner, and his treatment of the part is both ...

... . IT seems hardly credible yet it 's true that in order to strut and fret their hour upon the stage each of these players must spentf three solid hours in preliminary make-up. The elaborate camouflage is effected by the art and infinite skill of many brilliant backroom boys and girls who blush unseen in the stars' dressing-rooms. Shivashanker and Chatunni Panicker into the Lord Krishna and ...

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... COPPER-HAIRED, vital Sheila Burrell plays the wanton lover of a witch-boy in Dark of the Moon. From the Lyric, Hammersmith, Peter Brook's imaginative and speedy production was due to arrive at the Ambassadors Theatre yesterday, April 12. Photocraphed by ANTHONY BUCKLEY. ...

... Beverley Baxter TWENTY-ODD years ago a play was produced which added a new word to our vocabulary. It dealt with a scientifically produced mechanical man known as a Robot. The word became a part of the jargon of the day, and was recklessly applied to men who were lacking warmth, humour, delicacy and understanding. Then if passed and both the word and the idea were forgotten. Yet once more we ...

... . SO we 're all Londoners-- see glamorous and unra iBed'i ^ecree °f the Ministry of Fuel. The premidre coincided with the return of B.S.T., and huge crowds of th If ^'ccadilly Circus to gloat over the come-back of the winking, flashing signs in gold and white and colours I C li are fresh|y floodlit aspects of Brighton's Palace Pier; London's Houses of Parliament; Piccadilly Circus; 0lseum; ...

... GAFFE By Charles Cochran. COME years ago, be- >J fore Constance Cummings became Mrs. Benn Levy, and, I think, before she had played in England, Benn Levy brought her one day to I a little house we had in the country. My wife and I, and our guests, were all enchanted by her personality. Her name was unknown to us. During the evening, I summoned up courage to ask her if she had ever been on the ...