... Hungary Schooltime Blues, 15 minutes, no subtitles SIX episodes of similar length were made in this series in which the performers celebrate what the pro ducer called their maturity exam, continued on next page continued from previous page alias school leaving. All the instal ments in the series used the same technique which we think of as under cranking or frame shooting and then inserting ...

... Austria The Crazy Horror Show, 27 minutes, American voice over A CHAP sitting at a news desk dressed like Frankenstein's monster reads out some news headlines and the sketches follow from that. These Horror TV sketches began with the 97th part of a series on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, although all we saw was Snow White trying to boil an apple in poison and subse quently being chased over ...

... Soviet Union Once There Lived a Tuner, 51 minutes, English voice over A PIANO tuner who has dreams about conducting was the subject of this leisurely programme. Music wakes him up in the morning and, still dreaming, he falls out of bed. He conducts his breakfast and sets off to work smartly dressed with his tools in a violin case. He works for a Diano tuning and rental firm and he goes to the ...

... Great Britain /LWT) It'll Be Alright on the Night-2, 50 minutes AFTER the previous sad little Rus sian tale, delegates relaxed and en joyed the clips presented by Denis Norden. There really hadn't been much to laugh out loud about and this was a most welcome change. A pity the British didn't have more entries, said an east German to us afterwards; now there's a compli ment for you. ...

... Norway Slim Sala Bim, 31 minutes, no subtitles THE Norwegians usually come up with a funny entry at Montreux and this year was no exception. This happy look at the slimming industry began with a tattish lady ti eating herself to an enormous breakfast. The postman brings an invitation to a class reunion and she starts to think about what dress to put on. Every one she gets out of the cup ...

... 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 ...

... Talk about it WATFORD The Picture Of Dorian Gray THERE is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about-says Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Palace production of the play deserves and will be talked about. For an evening of satisfying theatre look no further than Watford's Clarendon Road. Wilde's way with words demands complete ...

... Heartbreak House DUBLIN JOE VANEK'S pale, scanty set gives a sepulchral tone to this Gate production of Heartbreak House, and Patrick Mason's direction confirms the theme of mourning. The pace is as slow as a funeral march, and the Shavian humour is frequently overshadowed by a sense of doom. Individual performances are plausi ble. Ingrid Craigie is very fine as Ellie Dunn, and Alan ...

... RICHARD GILL'S Travellers, presented by the Repertory Players on Sunday last, has for characters the circus and fairground folk with whom the author, now an actor, once worked. In consequence, the characters and dialogue have an air of authenticity which makes the unsua' and to some extent unfashionable theme dramatically exciting throughout the first act and even succeeds in holding the ...

... FOR as long as one cares to remember the work, of Gilbert and Sullivan has. apart from the D'Oyly Carte, been presented by amateur companies with hearty gusto and moderate finesse. There can be few who Have not joined in the fun on one side or the other of the foot lights, cherishing memories of harmonious music and worthy witticisms of an individual style which has no equal. One therefore ...

... 'The House of The Dead' LAST Friday evening saw the fifth and last production in the Prague Opera Season at the King's, Edinburgh, the British premifcre of Janacek's The House of the Dead. Written in 1928 to his own libretto adapted from Dostoevsky's Journal from the House of the Dead the work is a powerful evocation of the liv ing death of a prison camp in Siberia. Almost without plot, the ...