... GOOD EDTinG Unaccustomed as I am to tour-course dinners, unaccus tomed as I am to caviare soup or frogs' legs or olive tart, un accustomed as I am to having so little choice in what I eat (outside my own home), un accustomed as I am to talking to a restaurateur-chef who says people take food too seri ously. Unaccustomed, in fact, as I am to Parkes. This is the tiny (10 tables) restaurant in ...

... THE BIO SHOP ON THE CORNER Part 2 WHITELEYS, Queensway, W2 (BAY 1234). Whiteleys is one of the most cosmopolitan food halls; it is situated in a part of London that has many foreign colonies, and caters for them all. You can buy Polish, Hungarian and German food; and the ingredients for a Chinese meal are sold here not only to English people but to Chinese, who can buy the same brands as they ...

... RRLLET ROYAL BALLET, Opera House. Covent Garden, EC2 (COV 1066). Sat 2 Apr: Scenes de Ballet, Stravinsky/Ashton. Les Biches, Poulence/Nijinska. Les Noces, Stravinsky/Nijinska. Conductors: Lanchbery, Young. Principals Page. Usher, Bergsman, Parkin son, Blair. 7.30 T 5 Apr: Card Game, Stravinsky/ Cranko. Les Biches, Poulenc/ Nijinska. Les Noces, Stravinsky/ Nijinska. Conductor: Lanchbery. ...

... TELEVI5IUII FIRST FIVE: 1 Ready, Steady, Go! Live from Paris (ITV, 1 April, 6.8 pm). 2 Redcap (ITV, 2 April, times vary). 3 Sinatra- A Man His Music (BBC-1, 2 April, 8.30 pm). 4 Green Acres, comedy series (BBC-1, 3 April, 5.5 pm). 5 Lucky Jim, film (BBC-1, 3 April, 7.25 pm). A single bright gleam escaped from the soggy brown clouds surrounding the strangling of that BBC nuclear attack pro ...

... A MAN BIG ENOUGH TO TAME BRANDO AND LOBEN It was a slow flow of coffee up the sugar cube, comments Brando of Chaplin's influence on him while filming A Countess from Hongkong. But directing this modern romantic comedy has provided Chaplin with a new flow of creative energy that has proved a revelation to everyone who has worked with him. Report by SAM INGLEBY The shooting has stopped and ...

... He's a mover, and I've got to stop him moving, explains Cooper, commenting on the Big Fight. Clay's loud-mouth reputation has won him a following that makes him the natural baddie which is fine, since Cooper is everyone's idea of the ideal goodie. COLIN BELL takes up the story from here, and investigates the pros and cons of the two fighters who battle it out for the World Heavyweight ...

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... at the May Fair Hotel was a new fund- raising venture by the charity committee of the Charterhouse Clinic. It ended a lapse of 23 years since the first ball in 1938 when the clinic was built. The Duchess of Gloucester was this year's guest of honour Miss Ann Lloyd- Davies Mrs. Robie Vniacke PHOTOGRAPHS BY A. V. SWA ERE The Duchess of Gloucester (centre in the picture left) watched Noel ...

... Queen Victoria amused BY HECTOR BOLITHO THE PRINCE CONSORT died 100 years ago this year, and so began the widowhood that gave rise to the notion of Queen Victoria as a humourless tyrant, living in a crypt of self- pity. The notion, I believe, is a legend. Everyone I have met who knew Queen Victoria has insisted on her delightful laugh. Her grandchildren always recalled the jokes they shared ...

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