... '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 ...

... STAGE fighting, especially with swords, has been an important aspect of theatre production, at certain periods being dealt with by selected experts to ensure accuracy as well as dramatic effect. Today, stage fighting production or arrangement has become something of an art in itself. For the amateur, youth or school company, though the professional too may find it of interest, the latest ...

... TO SAY AU REVOIR before embarking upon their American tour, the Royal Ballet are dancing in full force at the Royal Opera House this week and to celebrate the occasion the proscenium arch has been newly gilded and the dome brightened with a coat of sky-blue paint. Mar got Fonteyn graced Lea Sylphides with her presence on Monday last and translated the poetic ecstasy of Chopin's romantic ...

... pOMMLNTINO on the sudden termination of ihe season at the Westminster of Mal'hilda Beauvoir and her Haitian Voodoo Dancers. Richard Graham, who presented ihem in collaboration with Furndel Productions, stales that throughout the dispute he worked in close con sultation and collaboration with Equity, and that contrary to the impression that may have been con veyed, return fares to Paris for the ...

... 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 ...

... by R. B. MARRIOTT YOU should not miss Peter Cotes's fine production of William Inge's A Loss of Roses, with its three brilliant performances in the leading parts, which opened at the Pembroke, Croydon on Monday last. Joan Miller has rarely been better, Jane Griffiths establishes herself as an actress of formidable talent, and Alan Howard gives an outstanding study of youthful frustration ...

... Marlene Dietrich MARLENE DIETRICH, the incomparable artist, casts a magic spell on audiences at the Lyceum this week, holding them entranced for sixty-five exciting minutes From the moment the celebrated figure appears on stage, a slender sheath of shimmering gold, we are completely captivated by every teasing note and gesture, as she weaves her dazzling way through a programme of eighteen ...

... by John Montgomery DIRECTOR JOHN GOLD is to make The Harp that Once lor Columbia Pictures, with Nicol Williamson starring. jJIKMAN COHEN is to star Ldith Evans in Crooks and Coronets the first of two l>!ms which he will produce for Warner Brothers-Seven Ails. Jim O'Con- nolly will direct his own screen play. IYANNY KAYE and Terence Stamp are lo co-star in Felinni's IV! m The Satyricon of ...

... by ANTHONY MERRYN MERRIE ENGLAND, that hardy stand-by of amateurs, had a lull and lavish profesional performance in Sadler's Wells on August 10. Edward German was no Sullivan, but he had a nonius and person ality of his own. which has caused (his work to survive on the sheer strength of his tunefulness, music- i.msh p and light touch. Otherwise (he rather naive plot, about Queen Elizabeth. ...

... A VIEW FROM THE BRINK. by David Campion, had its first performance at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, last week. From first to last, these three short plays are consistently funny, with a humour which brings Mr. Canvp- ton's points home with deadly accuracy. The author himself and David Glover appear as two all-too- familiar statesmen, conferring with the all-too-familiar goonery of all ...

... Our Kindness to Five Persons EDINBURGH A PLAY which deals with the cohesion and tensions among a group of friends at a re-union party gets a more vivid playing from the students of the Queen Margaret College Drama School than the evidence of the plot justifies in Tom Gallacher's play, Our Kindness to Five Persons. The party-goers, in their maturity, discover a renewal of the influence ...

... The Shadow Of A Gunman LEICESTER SHORT, sharp and superbly performed. That's the Leicester Haymarket Studio production of The Shadow Of A Gunman. Yes it is drawn on the Ireland, and particularly Dublin, of the 1920s but Sean O'Casey's work goes beyond that and this play is as much about individ uals, human strengths and weaknesses as the troubled rimes. It had a striking effect when it was ...