... vear-old Avril Ticehurst. playing her first professional part as Red Riding Hood, steals the show whenever she appears. She speaks her lines and stngs her songs with confidence and charm so much so that many of the young audience are relieved when the principal ...

... deference to criticism, but simply because the plot dispenses altogether with a Prince Charming. Since King Cole has no history to speak of, Mr. Nesbitt's authors have been free to invent a history for him that is like all the fairy stories rolled into one. There ...

... moved to the sick-bay: he learns, now, that the ship has been mined an immediate evacuation is ordered. He and an Italian-speaking lieutenant remain aboard with the prisoners and when a tremendous explosion rips up Valiant's bows, all happily survive. ...

... LPs (OLPC1214) some fairly hefty cuts had to be made in the performance. Which means, of course, that it is not strictly speaking a complete recording, but for most people it will be complete enough. Cimarosa's opera, which is gay, cheerful and witty ...

... that in the sixteen years since his death, the inventor of Fascism was almost totally neglected by writers in the English- speaking world. Christopher Hibbert's BENITO MUSSOLINI (Longmans. 25s.) goes quite a way in repairing this omission. The author has ...

... Mr. Kirkup was invited to work for two years as English lecturer in a celebrated Japanese university. The book is, broadly speaking, a journal of the time he spent during those years, his impressions and the effect that the strange but to him perpetually ...

... cover many subjects, such as death and rebirth, the nature of man, suffering and life in the world. On all of them the Sage speaks with wisdom and considerable humanity. Some of the dialogues have a humour all their own: Devotee: I have a toothache. Is ...