... Charley's Aunt CHESTER SUE WILSON, artistic director at the Gateway, Chester, made a wise choice in Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt as the opening production for the autumn season. Wilson obtains a superb response from her company with Malcolm McKee in full cry as Jack Chesney, the instigator or perhaps perpetrator of the central theme, with able support ftom Iwan Thomas (Charley ...

... Rock Circus, 30 minutes, French subtitles THIS was a rock concert in a circus setting in the studio. Performances and music were good and the de signer particularly caught the eye. He used motor bikes and an Ameri can car with lighting and effects that were very imaginative. Producer and director had worked out a very good balance of material for what could have otherwise been a non-televisual ...

... Italy Celentano; fear of triumph, 51 minutes ADRIAN CELENTANO is said to be the biggest show business talent at the moment in Italy. In this rather pretentious pop-documentary we were frequently cut from one of his very successful outdoor concerts to him in his dressing room waiting to ko on and then to his discussion with a television reporter about his fear of such big crowds as he attracts. ...

... Bulgaria Elixir for All, 31 minutes A STRAIGHTFORWARD opera compilation with next to no linking and done in the studio in front of an audience, this had no place in a light entertainment festival. We asked how it had come to be admitted, but the chairman of the organisers said that he had referred it back to the originating company who said that it was what they wanted to enter and it had ...

... Canada Dream Weaver, 50 minutes, no subtitles A SORT of variety ice show, this might have been an outstanding production had it not been for a poor beginning, and mixing just a little too many solo pieces. Performed in front of an audience, it looked like a very expensive and very rehearsed production. Star of the show was skater Toller Cranston and he was joined by song writer and performer ...

... France (TF 1) Number One: Raymond Devos, 51 minutes, no sub titles WE logged that 28W minutes of this production was taken up with the comedian star of the show, Ray mond Devos, doing a stand up act straight to camera. A sort of Bernard Manning who is very popular in France, Devos worked hard trying to inject some life into gags heard in the Paris music halls before televi sion ran them down. ...

... Switzerland The Little Guitar, 34 minutes AN orchestra rehearsing in the studio takes a break for lunch and the char is left to do some tidying up. This is her chance to realise her ambition of becoming a performer. She sees a small guitar and from there we are taken through some numbers, dream sequences and reality, with a little animation of instruments. There was a tango number, Indian ...

... Sweden Little Intimacies, 29 minutes, English subtitles THE theme of this was love and being in love. It began with a couple in a large pink bed with him thinking about an article he had been reading about sex and saying that because he is thinking about it he doesn't actually feel like making love. We then cut to a bar set and a song. That was faded and up came cushion replicas of male ...

... Great Britain (BBC) Not The Nine O'Clock News, 23 minutes, no sub titles LIKE The Plank this made people laugh a lot. Unfortunately delivery was a bit too quick for many non- English speakers (a risk a producer takes with that kind of show). Nevertheless, it stood out well among so much that had been un funny. Programmes at the 20th Golden Rose of Montreux DENIS NORDEN (left) talking to ...

... Great Britain (BBC) Kelly Monteith, 23 minutes, no subtitles THIS BBC entry died quickly in the press jury. One of the main reasons being that many could not under stand what was being said. Many said that it was not funny anyway even if they could have understood more of what was being said. ...

... West Germany (ZDF) Judy Winter: A Woman of Many Parts, 33 minutes, En glish subtitles THE star took four parts in this production: a journalist on a readers' problem page, a woman on a romantic sea voyage, a night club singer, and a salesgirl in a department store. The journalist is at home with her husband with a rotten cold but is replying to letters from readers. The readers are the woman ...

... ROBERT HELPMANN'S picturesque and imaginative production, treating the work almost as ballet, remains the best thing about this revival. The elaboration and grace of the grouping, and the enchanting brilliance of colour place the right emphasis on LE COQ D OR Revival of the opera by Rimsky- Korsakov. Presented by the Covent Garden Opera Company at Covent Garden on February 10. Scenery and ...