... THE City of Cologne seized every opportunity lo make its new Opera House a technical masterpiece. It was fortunate that it could be started from scratch on the extended site of Julius Raschdorf's theatre, built in 1872 and destroyed by bombing. Dr. Wilhelm bahn s commission was to provide a full-scale theatre seating 1,400, but with an intimate atmosphere, and this architect succeeded bril ...

... by RANALD SAVERY MAJOR entrants on Broadway have been a comedy, Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (Martin Beck, March 3), and a drama, Blue Denim (Playhouse, February 27). The comedy is of a genre form erly more familiar to the American stage than it has been in recent years. It is broad, boisterous, often preposterous, fun depending upon concocted situations. The plot involves a husband ...

... On the Bandstands BATH'S FESTIVAL OF JAZZ NEARLY 5,000 people attended the Festival of Jazz which was given at the Bath Arts Festival last week at the Regency Ballroom, Bath, formerly the Palace. The project was an ambition one, with visits from the top-ranking Jazz bands of the country, lectures by experts, and a razz brains trust. The ballroom, if it made no money on the week, got ...

... VIVID COMMENT BY EISA BRUNELLESCHI NEXT MONTH Antonio returns to London for a six-week season at the Coliseum, which makes the appearance of Antonio and Spanish Dancing by Elsa Brunelleschi, published by A. and C. Black at 18/-, most opportune. It is a slender volume, which tempts to dc no more tnan a pen picture of the career of the greatest Spanish dancer of this or any other generation ...

... IN Valmouth, based on the novel by Ronald Firbank, Sandy Wilson has written a musical about a resort which not only has bracing air. but abounds in petty intrigues and plots by the score. It was presented at the New Shakespeare, Liverpool, on day. Stt in the prc-motor car period it reflects the satire of that time. Directed by Vida Hope it has a cast of 22 headed by Bertice Read ing. who ...

... SPANISH DANCE TOUR I he r.duardo and Navarra Spanish Dance Group conclude theit tour of Wales, which is in arrangement with the Arts Council of Great Britain this month. Another tour opens at Newtown on November 12 ami ends at Barmouth on November 21. Appearing with Eduardo and Navarra's company will be the Spanish Flamenco guitarist Antonio Navarro, appear ing as guest artist. On their return ...