... Holland (NOS) Jan J. de Bom, Before the Friend of Children, 30 minutes, English subtitles ONE out of a series for children which dealt with problems such as those at school, those with parents, homework, sex, and fear, this programme offended some delegates. The subjects in the series arise from letters sent in by young viewers. The Dutch chose the programme on sex for Montreux since it was ...

... Holland Martine Show, 38 minutes THIS was the first show in Category B. (Humour). The star, Martine Bibi, sings and goes in for sit com by the look of it, for here (and she was a co-writer of the show) we had an ironic look at Christmas rituals. She first sang in English accompanied by four girls dressed as Santa Claus before going into a sketch about a well known television quizmaster who ...

... Belgium Urbanus, Dead or Alive, 35 minutes, English subtitles THE name in the title belongs to the writer and star of the show. He is doubtless a clever chap but we very much doubt his sense of humour would be to British taste. He is bearded, long haired and of medium height. The story began with him going into a bank with a stocking mask on his head and being con- fronted by the staff who ...

... West Germany Nonstop Nonsense, 24 minutes, English subtitles A FAST Buster Keaton type opening to the music of the Donald O'Connor number Be a Clown was the intro for the first sketch with the star in all the main roles as a petrol station attendant for whom everything goes wrong when an attractive blonde turns up in her Mercedes. The air hose jams and one of her tyres blows up; the petrol ...

... France Collaro Show, 47 minutes, English subtitles (in blue) THE title came from the name of the writer and producer Stephane Col laro. Alas, it was another dud, un funny French show fussily put together. Television was meant to be the theme how to get- into it. executives, and how ideas are worked out. The linking was either the newsreader idea or by one of the performers. A still cartoon ...

... Hungary Toothache, 23 minutes, no subtitles THE middle-aged office manager goes to work with a toothache and it distracts him and he begins to visualise people's faces distorted. The office beauty is the centre of a lot of the camera's attention and in one sequence he pictures her doing a striptease on a table. He goes to a chemist, takes a pho tograph of himself in a booth to see what he ...

... 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 ...

... CRANKO'S COMIC BLOOD- AND-THUNDER BALLET by Eric Johns THE LONDON PREMIERE of John Cranko's music-hall burlesque of Sweeney Todd was given by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden on Tuesday evening last. With tongue in cheek Mr. Cranko has re-told the tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, using a highly eloguent dance vocabulary. Most ingeniously he has chosen movements which are the ...

... THE Brighton and Hove Repertory Company were in top form for the opening Ust week of The Gaye Affair, a comedy by J. Barry Roach which concerns a novelist, Gaye by name and nature, particularly where the ladies arc concerned. His generous use of sex and medium has put him in the best-seller class and his publisher as clamouring for the completion of his next novel. He choses a luxury hotel ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...