... ONE BRIGHT DAY is a problem play. For its dramatic effect it relies on the problems facing a group of people concerncd with the running of a drug factory, and it sets the audience a pretty problem ONE BRIGHT DAY 1 Pla> by Sigmund Miller. Pre sented by Peier Saunders at the Pavilion. Bournemouth, on Febru ary 13. Decor b> Michael Weight Julian PrejtCOtl Clive Brook Frederick Newberry ...

... A NEW play by Leo Lehman has been chosen to ring down the final curtain at the Q, after which it ceases to be a professional theatre. It is an entertaining play of WHO CARES? Play by Leo Lehman Presented at the Q on February 14. Decor bs Elizabeth Agombar. Harry Stephen Murray J.G Peter Howell Felicia Mary Laura Wood Stefan Vivian Matalon Bubbles Jill Raymond Directed by Peter Zadek. ...

... 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 ...

... ROBERT HELPMANN'S picturesque and imaginative production, treating the work almost as ballet, remains the best thing about this revival. The elaboration and grace of the grouping, and the enchanting brilliance of colour place the right emphasis on LE COQ D OR Revival of the opera by Rimsky- Korsakov. Presented by the Covent Garden Opera Company at Covent Garden on February 10. Scenery and ...

... 'FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY' J CINCE it opened in June of last year, For Amusement Only. at the Lyric, has seen several changes in the cast. and this has brought new material to replace that which beat me dated in this fast-moving world. Wallas Eaton has inherited most of the numbers in which Hugh Paddick was featured and brings out their flavour extremely well, in Some Day You'll Find Me he gives a ...

... Anglo-Indian 'Othello' rpHE Touchstone Thc.it re Com- pany, a group of amateurs with high ambitions, presented a production of Othello with Ranen Roy, an Indian actor, as the Moor at Unity, on August 30. Francis Butler's direction, especi ally on this small stage, was notable for its pace and breadth, although subtlety and a unifying style were lacking. Mr. Roy, tall and broad, looked an ...

... FILM VIEW Margaret Cowan's THIS week saw the beginning of the new Autumn schedules, and among them the new filmed series. More will follow as time slots become available. So this is as good a time as any to review the TV film field from the actor's point of view. What are the opportunities and what, if any, are the draw backs One thing is certain the filmed series, in one form or an other, ...

... FILM VIEW Margaret Cowan's STAGE TWO at ABC, Elstree, was very lively when I looked in a day or two ago. It is definitely my impression that TV film production by our own people is hustling up far more than in the early days. I remember when it used to be rather a leisurely business, with a goodish time taken over shots, and several re-takes. It is the pres sure of economics and also of ...

... FILM VIEW I PROMISED readers of this column more details of the newly-formed Rapallo Pictures, now in the process of making their first series, an anthology of half-hour plays with the over-all title of Rendezvous. Here thev are. This first venture is partly financed by America's C.B.S. and our own Associated-Rediffusion. C.B.S. will distribute in the Western Hemisphere and A-R in the ...

... Margaret Cowan's ALMOST inextricably mixed together are our producers of feature and TV films today. Take this quote from F. N. G. Leevers, President of the British Kinemetograph Society: It is not every exhibiting or producing company which has suc ceeded in extending its operations into the new medium of television, but I am certain that without the successful launching of ITA the effect ...

... MICHAEL CROFT's Youth Theatre production of Julius Caesar which began a short season it the Oueen's on August II. opens on a note of brilliant unconventionality with teenage Romans living in the streets to the strains of traditional jazz. And with thi^ Mr. Croft transforms v into a tale which b Tiding relevance to MoUcm-UiV ?.ire has often been i pon-- and more times tli. -vith gootl ...