... eighteen-year-old Italian circus artist, who dances with twenty pigeons. ...

... Vanessa Redgrave, daughter of Michael Redgrave, who sings on the professional stage for the first time as Principal Boy in Mother Goose at Leatherbead. After this pantomime excursion she goes to Stratford-on-Avon for the 1959 Shakespeare season. ...

... Volcano on Ice, one of the spectacular features in Holiday on Ice at the Empire Pool, Wembley, reviewed on page 32. ...

... Charlie Drake as the King and Thelma Ruby as the Queen in the spectacular production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Palladium. ...

... Laughing despite her injured right forefinger, television and cabaret artist Tonia Bern and her bridegroom, world water speed record holder Donald Campbell, are toasted by Terry-Thomas at the wedding reception at London's Savoy Hotel on Christinas Eve. A car door had slammed on the bride's finger as she and her bridegroom left Caxlon Hall after their wedding earlier in the day. ...

... Stephen Murray as Svengali and Jill Bennett at Trilby in the BBC-TV version of George du Mauricr's novel, which will be shown on January 16, produced by Christopher McMaster. ...

... ALEX MUNRO'S OSCAR Alex Munro, now appearing in Jack Gillam's Goldilocks and The Three Bears at Oldham Empire, shows 14-year-old Gerald Woods the Outspan Oscar he won last year. Gerald plays Baby Bear, Cedric, the precocious son of the Dame and has a solo singing spot. ...

... Janice Cook in one of the genuine Victorian costumes being used in Peggy Ann Wood's production of The Amazing Adventures of Miss Brown at the Little, Bristol. ...

... Diana Guest-Smith as the Goose and Michael Spice as Mother Goose in Margate's pantomime at the Royal. Gary Watson, Keith Marsh and Maureen Quinney in Dick Whittington at the Queen's, Hornchureh. Tristram Jellinek, Patricia Rogers, Vivian Pickles, Basil Moss and Kenneth Dight in Mother Goose at Leatherhead. ...

... Marlene Dietrich was first to go back-stage to congratulate John Gielgud when he gave his one-man Shakespeare performance at New York's 46th Street Theatre just after Christimas. ...

... Lionel Hamilton as Widow Twankey In Northampton's Aladdin, his thirteenth consecutive Dame role for the company. ...

... DAVID KELSEY'S FAREWELL Last week David Kelsey made his farewell appearance at Oldham Repertory as Archie Rice in the play of his choice, The Entertainer. ...