... ON January 25 Dorita Y Pepe are due lo make their sixth ap pearance on the BBC' Light Pro gramme's Guitar Club the only artists, save, of course. Ken Sykora and the resident group who have made, so many appearances. On Sunday, February 2, they will be in Follow the Stars, the Sun day night variety show on sound radio. Their recently-issued 12-in. LP record Amor, (The Art of Dorita y Pepe) ...

... CHANGE OF POLICY AT ILFRAC0MBE ILFRACOMBE Council have de- L cided to invite tenders for all 1 of their entertainments, whic-h have been municipally controlled in recent years. Theii entertainment rights in clude the Victoria Pavilion, where summer shows are staged the Alex- andra Theatre, the home of reper- tory; the Holiday Inn. with its licensed bars and dance hall the bandstand, from which ...

... Anthony Cookman IN making up a party for the Lysistrata at the Royal Court (or later next month at the Duke of York's) there are sensible reasons for choosing your guests with particular care. The jokes about sex are as broad as ten thousand beeves at pasture, and it is hardly possible to mistake their meaning. Some people cannot abide such jokes. It does no good to point out that in usage ...

... lould never have been forced into the Church, as he was, by powerful family's ambition. He relaxed, though probably litt: nore, in the company of a delightful group of young wo: each of whose portraits, in words, our author provides. As atesman, he was temperate and adroit; he did all he pos could to avoid the final showdown with Savonarola but ,s, the martyr impaled himself on his fate. The ...

... by ELSPETH GRANT THE PARTNERSHIP between Miss Kim Novak and Mr. James Stewart, begun in Vertigo, continues in Bell, Book And Candle-- one observes that, though it does nothing for Mr. Stewart (he is invariably as good as ever he was), it may eventually do something for Miss Novak. In her, one felt, a couple of pictures back, room for improvement could be measured by the acre. She is be r in ...

... Book Reviews BETTINA LINN'S novel, A Letter To Elizabeth (Chatto & Windus, 15s.), is one of those infrequent books which remind one how great fiction's stature can be. The main situation, in itself striking, is declared in the first sentence of all: Foresta Jordan was going to see her father for the first time. And it is Foresta, aged sixteen, who speaks the closing words of the story: I ...

... by ANTHONY COOKMAN WE will put up with a great deal from a that is inflated by the absurdly personality of Mr. Robert Morley. He has a way of hinting that even if we take the story at all seriously there still a private joke to be enjoyed-- the of a mischievous small boy struggling to get out of a portly gentleman who is hard to be petulant or apoplectic ally with a ...

... Catkins and Cotton-reels TREES hold some sort of fas cination for everybody. The manner in which they depict the moods of the weather and the changing seasons never lets them pass unnoticed or be taken for granted. For this reason a great many literary works have been written about them, some plain and factual, others less informative but more inspired. In The Living Forest (Thames and Hudson ...

... The Humble Cattle Several decades of painstaking work have gone into The Aberdeeir-Angus Breed, a History (Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society; £2ios.), which has surely emerged as one of the most comprehensive breed histories ever to be put together in a single volume. Every herd and every animal which has made any notable contribution to the advance of the breed is recorded ever since the breed ...

... Little has ever been written about the ancient West African king dom of Benin, and therefore Ray mond Tong's Figures in Ebony (Cassell 16s.) will be welcomed with interest. The author, who spent four years in the province with the Colonial Education Ser vice, writes with clear understand ing and affection for Benin and its peoples. Besides painting a vivid picture of Benin and the Binis of to ...

... For 'lis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard Shakespeare THIS well-known quotation from Hamlet has been applied to many and varying circum stances. Shakespeare, of course, uses the word sport in its original sense of a diversion from the rigours of work-a-day existence, of amusement or fun. But sports in the modern context of various forms of athletic competition can ...

... 1 book which must have demanded a great deal of research, for it covers the subject in workmanlike and thorough fashion, is Automatic and Repeating Shotguns (Kaye 1 6s.) by Richard Arnold. The author himself, as he makes clear, is not particularly an advocate of this type of weapon, but he accepts the fact that many people like them, and that they have their considerable uses. They are, of ...