... GOOD EDTinG Unaccustomed as I am to tour-course dinners, unaccus tomed as I am to caviare soup or frogs' legs or olive tart, un accustomed as I am to having so little choice in what I eat (outside my own home), un accustomed as I am to talking to a restaurateur-chef who says people take food too seri ously. Unaccustomed, in fact, as I am to Parkes. This is the tiny (10 tables) restaurant in ...

... THE BIO SHOP ON THE CORNER Part 2 WHITELEYS, Queensway, W2 (BAY 1234). Whiteleys is one of the most cosmopolitan food halls; it is situated in a part of London that has many foreign colonies, and caters for them all. You can buy Polish, Hungarian and German food; and the ingredients for a Chinese meal are sold here not only to English people but to Chinese, who can buy the same brands as they ...

... RRLLET ROYAL BALLET, Opera House. Covent Garden, EC2 (COV 1066). Sat 2 Apr: Scenes de Ballet, Stravinsky/Ashton. Les Biches, Poulence/Nijinska. Les Noces, Stravinsky/Nijinska. Conductors: Lanchbery, Young. Principals Page. Usher, Bergsman, Parkin son, Blair. 7.30 T 5 Apr: Card Game, Stravinsky/ Cranko. Les Biches, Poulenc/ Nijinska. Les Noces, Stravinsky/ Nijinska. Conductor: Lanchbery. ...

... TELEVI5IUII FIRST FIVE: 1 Ready, Steady, Go! Live from Paris (ITV, 1 April, 6.8 pm). 2 Redcap (ITV, 2 April, times vary). 3 Sinatra- A Man His Music (BBC-1, 2 April, 8.30 pm). 4 Green Acres, comedy series (BBC-1, 3 April, 5.5 pm). 5 Lucky Jim, film (BBC-1, 3 April, 7.25 pm). A single bright gleam escaped from the soggy brown clouds surrounding the strangling of that BBC nuclear attack pro ...

... A MAN BIG ENOUGH TO TAME BRANDO AND LOBEN It was a slow flow of coffee up the sugar cube, comments Brando of Chaplin's influence on him while filming A Countess from Hongkong. But directing this modern romantic comedy has provided Chaplin with a new flow of creative energy that has proved a revelation to everyone who has worked with him. Report by SAM INGLEBY The shooting has stopped and ...

... He's a mover, and I've got to stop him moving, explains Cooper, commenting on the Big Fight. Clay's loud-mouth reputation has won him a following that makes him the natural baddie which is fine, since Cooper is everyone's idea of the ideal goodie. COLIN BELL takes up the story from here, and investigates the pros and cons of the two fighters who battle it out for the World Heavyweight ...

... I By T. A. Layioj WINE waiters can be a men ace: when a colleague dined the other day at the Sump tiferous and, ordering a 50s. claret, found that they had not got a decanter in stock into which to pour the wine (and fine old Bur gundies and clarets should always be decanted), he brought matters in the wine trade to a head. Lectures on the correct presenta tion of wine are now being widely ...

... THE show season has started and there is every likelihood that many of the events will be larger than ever this year. While numerous entries, avenues of trade stands and phenomenal attendances are a healthy sign which no one would deprecate, there is cause for regret that as the shows increase in size they become correspondingly similar to one another, very often with many of the same names in ...

... NEARLY ioo members of the English Jersey Cattle Society were among the many visitors to the Island Show at Springfield, Jersey, the entries at which indicated that the breed is main taining its high standard in its own country. In some classes the judges had a difficult task to make their decisions. The Female Championship was awarded to an aged cow, an unusual occurrence at the Jersey events, ...

... Insect Acrobat The Click-Beetle CLICK-BEETLES, or skipjacks, are very common in grassy places in summer, and their antics bring back childhood memories. In later life we tend to be not amused, having learnt that the click-beetle is the parent of the notorious wireworm. If a click-beetle is touched, it curls up its legs and lets itself drop to the ground as though shot. It seems generally to ...

... Robins are well known for their eccentric choice of a nesting site and they are as likely to select an old boot or a vehicle as a woodland bank. The construction of tfie nest depends largely upon the spot chosen and varies from a small quite neat affair to a large and untidy one. The pair of robins who decided to build inside a bedroom at a house in Ewell Surrey chose to erect an outsize nest ...

... THE Midwest Research Institute in the U.S. has recently developed a new process for exploding cereal grains into flour by means of compressed air or other gases. The invention has possibilities of revolu tionising the milling industry to the advant age of both the miller and the baker. The new process, which has been given the name explosive dissociation, differs from the manufacture of ...