... Peter Street offices there is a rather flashy tele vision which receives cable and satellite programmes, in order to keep up with cultur al events not covered in the terrestrial service such as The Simpsons, one pre sumes. A little while ago. Mary Allen ...

... Bag at the Duke of York's, has issued a writ for libel against Bernard Levin, the critic. The writ alleges libel in a review of the play written by Mr. Levin. Hat Trick ELLEN POLLOCK is at present directing A Midsummer Night's Dream for students of ...

... House later in the season as a guest- artist to sing three performances of Amncris. For the first time for more than a year a Richard Strauss opera will rejoin the repertoire. Elektra will have four performances in German with a cast of principals all singing ...

... Yvonne Arnaud in a comedy part in Dear Charles, a play which, under the title of Les Enfants d'Edouird, enjoyed a run of over 500 performances in Paris in the Theatre de Madeleine and was withdrawn last year. Miss Arnaud will be seen as a witty mother of ...

... Drury Lane on Saturday, November 1. A.T.P.M. Meeting The monthly council meeting of the A.T.P.M. was held on Septem ber 11, with E. J. Hinge in the chair. The hon. secretary, Nat Day, was instructed to proceed to arrange a joint meeting with the producing ...

... CHIT CHAT OWING to the appeal that Giuliano Vasilico's 120 Days of Sodom is having for a younger audience, the Round House has decided to implement a price reduction for students for the rest of the run. ON NOVEMBER 6, a showcase in memory of Richard ...

... will be All Kinds of Men. a new American play by Alex Samuels. The principal parts in a cast of twenty will be played by Wilfrid Lawson. Patric Doonan. Ann Firbank. Miriam Karlin and Meier Tzelniker. The play, which is set in a moderate-sized American town ...

... of that theatre for a straight play. It opens at the Strand on Tuesday next with the same cast, headed by Pamela Brown. Paul Scofield, Virginia McKenna. Michael Goodliffe and Marjorie Fielding. Never a Word Jean Burns is staging a revue in mime at the ...

... CHIT CHAT Equity hasn't got a Cluedo A CRAZED killer seems to be stalking the headquarters of Equity. No sooner do we hear that actor Michael Balfour has been unceremoniously killed off (in word at least, if not in deed) in the pages of the union journal ...

... year, promises a programme of three to mx months' study and travel, and permits the recipient the fullest possible lati tude. Fredbjorn Bjornsson, one of the Royal Danish Ballet's princi pals, has also been given a fellow- .'iip. V. & A. Print Room THE ...

... PLAYGOERS' DIARY January 1 Don Giovanni (Covent Garden). January 2 Jack and the Beanstalk (Unity). January 5 Diary of a Mad man (Mercury) January 9 Curtains (Canon- bury Tower) January 12 Sleuth (Brighton Royal). January 13 The Burning Mountain (Victoria ...

... Garden). March 21 Un Fil la I'alte Comdtdie Francaise (Aldwych). The Cold Wind and the Warm (Rudolph Steiner). March 22 A Dash of Spirits Repertory Players (Wyndham's). March 23 Alexander's Death (Ashcroft, Croydon). Busybody (New, Hull). March ...