... 'IVANHOE' SERIES: 'The Circus' IVANHOE it a Sidney Box production, distributed by Screen Gems. Roger Moore stars in the name part. Usual formula of the champion of right against I the wrong-doer in power. The period of good King Richard the First, and bad Prince John. In this episode, the people rally to 'The Magpie, a singer of sub versive songs, and The Falcon, who is lvanhoc. They are ...

... by ANTHONY COOKMAN MR. T. S. ELIOT is a fine but difficult poet whose almost inhuman distrust of earthly love has given his poetry a distinctive flavour. His detached criticism of the most universal of the emotions has helped to make him the idol of several generations of intellectuals. His latest play (seen at the Edinburgh Festival and opening shortly at the Cambridge) is going to give his ...

... by ELSPETH GRANT WHEN I was very young and a very bad sailor I went to Algiers aboard a Dutch ship. After a night of acute discomfort in the Bay of Biscay I looked miserably out of my porthole as the dawn was breaking-- and there, not more than a couple of hundred yards from us, her swan-white canvas blushing in the sunrise, was a square-rigged windjammer in full sail. I forgot all about my ...

... by GERALD LASCELLES STANDARDS of jazz are as infinitely variable as most others I know. When performers break away too far from the basic standards I shout long and loud, hoping that my readers will heed my alarums. Well, the bounds of jazz are exceeded by an affected version of South Pacific, the work of a modern group normally held in high repute the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Almost as remote ...

... The furs-- and the laughs-- fly THEATRE by ANTHONY COOKMAN MIXED-UP kids are all the rage in modern drama. After many hours of studying their rather dreary behaviour it was about time that we were given the chance to learn that the mixed-up are not all of one class or of one age and that they are not all painful to contemplate. Mr. Peter Coke's pleasantly non sensical Breath Of Spring at the ...

... CINEMA by ELSPETH GRANT THERE are moments when one regrets that in addition to that decoration awarded for valour there is not one bestowed for honesty. Some such tribute is due to Sir Michael Balcon for his epic production, Dunkirk-- written by Messrs. David Divine and W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Leslie Norman. The truth is not always pleasant, but Sir Michael tells it, regard less-- ...

... by SIRIOL HUGH-JONES HERE AND THERE, with the desperate gallantry of an underground movement, poetry is being published. Editors of political and literary journals-- brave, fool hardy men-- regularly publish one little lonely poem, or maybe even two or three in a small defiant group. Publishers, wailing of irreparable loss, will even occasionally bring out an entire collection with the air of ...

... by ANTHONY COOKMAN I DO NOT RECALL a more mixed up musical than Mister Venus at the Prince of Wales. It suffers from so many inner conflicts that a world conference of trick cyclists might sit for a year before it had sorted them out. On the spur of the moment we can only guess at the root cause of the trouble, and I should say it is that Mr. Frankie Howerd and his script writers are trying ...

... Onee more into the desert by ELSPETH GRANT THERE WAS, I thought, a frown upon the desert's dusty face throughout Sea Of Sandy There was certainly one on mine at the when, spitting a little of that familiar from between my teeth and huddling to my now well-worn burnous, I settled to endure another spell of through North Africa. I did not know was in for a rewarding ...

... So pure and so dull --THE CEVSOIt'S OWH Ft EH! by ELSPETH GRANT MR. ARTHUR WATKYN used to hold the unenviable position of Film Censor and, if one can rely on the whisperings in the bazaars, he was something of a headache to those members of the British film industry whose growing predilection for violence, sex, vice and horror for horror's sake, he apparently felt it his duty to curb. It was a ...

... by SIRIOL HUGH-JONES THE publishers describe Brighter Than A Thousand Suns (Gollancz, Hart-Davis, 21s.), by Dr. Robert Jungk as a terribly topical book, and indeed it seems to me a book that everybody should read immedi ately. If this sounds like a matron issuing a stiff round of tonic to the whole school, let me sugar the pill by adding that this frightening book is also obsessively ...

... Mr. Bygraves v. the children-- a draw bv ELSPETH GRANT MISS BARBARA MURRAY plays a good- hearted, but impulsive young welfare officer in Mr. Lewis Gilbert's A Cry From The Streets-- a film which I found delightfully human, touching and funny. Her concern is with deprived children-- children abandoned or left homeless by parents impoverished, irresponsible, callous or criminal. At Ranelagh ...