... DEADLINE MIDNIGHT PRINTERS'ink was running and the presses rolling to herald the return of Deadline Midnight (Saturday, March 11. ATV). I his series held a reputation for being one of the best seen on ITV. But Saturday's open ing episode was not as good as some seen in the past There was a lot of unnecessary ill-feeling between Daily Globe Editor Joe Dunn (Peter Vaughan), who was handing ...

... This production puzzles HOME AT SEVEN THAT the BBC should have chosen to revive R. C. Sherriff's indifferent and dated thriller for their Sunday even ing drama spot is a puzzle. It was a pity, too, that such a gifted and intelligent actor as Alec Clunes should have been cast in the part of the hum drum little bank clerk who fears he has committed rob bery and murder during a bout of amnesia. ...

... The] slapdash and the facile mm Victor Pasmore, New London Gallery. Bernard Buffet, Lefevre Gallery LAST WEEK I WENT TO VICTOR Pasmore's show at the New London Gallery and I didn't know whether to cry or laugh. I am still wonder ing whether I should think of it as a tragedy or a joke. But before I say more let me tell you briefly something about this artist of whom Sir Herbert Read has said, ...

... ■HUM A Motley to the View, by Marigold Armitage. (Faber Faber, 15s.) Four Voices, by Isobel English. (Longmans, 16s.) Wolfbane, by Pohl Kornbluth. (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) Marilyn Monroe, by Maurice Zolotow. (W. H. Allen, 25s.) Zsa Zsa Gabor, by Gerold Frank. (Barker, 21s.) IF THE OBJECT OF WRITING-- A difficult, lonely and dispiriting business at the best of times-- is to produce a masterpiece, ...

... m MR. JOHN WHITING IN THE DEVILS-- presented by the Stratford-on-Avon company at the Aldwych-- makes a bold attempt on the big, fine play which it seems in the natural order of things he should some day write. But for one reason and another this study of religion, true and false, in 17th-century France, though hold ing attention closely for some three hours, finally misfires. One reason is the ...

... All rie'ht, Arthur o 7 we understand IF THERE WERE NOT SO MUCH talent, involved in The Misfits, one would not for a moment hesitate to say that it is a pretty poor film-- The Misfits. Director John Huston. (Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift.) Ballad Of A Soldier. Director Grigori Chukhrai. (Vladimir Iva- shov, Shanna Prokhorenko.) The Virgin Spring. Director Ingmar Bergman. (Max ...

... modern fable of Chicago m MUST BE ADMITTED THAT it on the question of racial nation, a splendidly acted film, Raisin In The Sun, based on Miss Hansberry's moving play, not primarily concerned with at problem. It simply tells an story of human hopes and -- of dreams deferred which thanks to the courage of the dreamers, are not allowed to d up like a raisin in the ...

... MWSSSSSm Marc Chagall, painting litho graphs, O'Hana Gallery A TWO-FACED COCKERED, CLUTCHING palette and paint brushes, hovers over Paris; a blue-faced cow with a pink parasol dances on the rooftops of a Russian village while a bride and bridegroom make love in her tail; a flying fish plays a violin on top of a pendulum-clock floating high above the Seine-- this is the world of Marc Chagall. ...

... ■HI MR. WALT DISNEY, WHOSE CARTOON films sometimes looked a trifle old- fashioned compared with those of certain newcomers to the field, has made a triumphant comeback: One Hundred & One Dalmatians, based on Miss Dodie Smith's book, simply couldn't be better. It is a pure joy. Dog-lovers will dote on it and I do believe cat-lovers will, too, for though the enchanting tale is essentially a ...

... ■BH RUTHLESS, CRUEL JAMES BOND rides again-- or rather drives again in his Bentley Continental with the Rolls Mark IV engine with 9.5 compression and two-inch pipe twin exhausts and the £3,000 body from Mulliners with black morocco upholstery. Just so that you know where we are. Thundcrkall for me marks the beginning of the dec adent period either Bond's or my own. That is to say, I am now so ...

... ■Hill IT IS DIFFICULT, WHEN WRITING about the mass of jazz records that appear monthly, to do justice to those of purely British origin, especially when so many of them are devoted to that spurious music of traditional origin which recently prompted a well-known writer to suggest it as a substitute for rock 'n' roll! Thus I found it more than refreshing to listen to Johnny Dankworth's Jazz ...

... A FEW WEEKS AGO, WRITING IN THIS column about a Tate Gallery lecturer who had referred to Augustus John's painting as slick and had suggested that soon Gwen John's work would be rated above her brother's, I said: One day it might be worth while to investigate the charge of sliek- ness against artists like John and find out if their prodigious dexterity and skill as draughtsmen and painters ...