... Pat Wallace Miss Lesley Storm's The Paper Hat is played for the most part in an atmosphere of good tem per and affection. This, of course, rules it out entirely from the category of contem porary misery probers and therefore means, I suppose, that it follows no fashionable trend. It poses no new problems and even the old ones it illus trates--of young love andfamily relationships are not ...

... by Fenton Bresler No one can walk into a theatre and de mand to be admitted -just because he is willing to pay and accommodation is available. All theatres reserve the right to refuse ad mission, to use the cant phrase. Some put up no tices in the main foyer which is un necessary. Most in sert a line amid the small print in their programmes where it has no legal effect whatsoever since by ...

... book and lyrics and music by Lionel Bart. New Theatre Opened; 30 6 60 Tickets: advisable to book in advance. Re-visiting Oliver! after a gap of some four years is a forcible reminder that, like Oklahoma! and West Side Story, this is a great original. Never since has Lionel Bart achieved the same cohesion of material, the per fect welding of words, music and narrative. Sean Kenny's set was an ...

... , book and lyrics by Ronald Millar, music by Ron Grainer. From an original idea by Fred G. Moritt, based on The Barretts of Wimpo/e Street by Rudolph Besier Lyric Theatre Opened 20: 10 64 Tickets: booking in advance essential Designer Malcom Pride and director Wendy Toye collabo rated on a number of operettas for Sadler's Wells and the same problems applied there: an excess of decoration, ...

... , by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley. Criterion Theatre Opened 27 6 63 Tickets: choice of any part of the house half-an-hour before curtain This must be a collector's item now: a play that has changed gear completely during the course of its run. A variation of programme design seems an indication. The original car ried an amusing sketch, the present one is simply lettered; the original ...

... , book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; music by Richard Rodgers. Palace Theatre Opened 1 8 5 61 Tickets: no general difficulty but naturally the good seats go first Film versions of musicals tend to expand the wrong things and diminish the valuable ones, but there are exceptions and how the stage account of The Sound of Music continues successfully in ...

... Oliver Warner Whatever one's political belief, the advent to power of Mr. Wilson is among the most exciting internal political events since the war. Anthony Howard and Richard West, who are professional journalists and wary admirers, disclose the matter in The Making of the Prime Minister (Cape 25s.) This book is digestible reading and there are moments, for instance the end of the tug ...

... I Spike Hughes It was quite like old Diaghilev times again to find a composer being mentioned in the same breath as the name of the ballet he'd written the music for. This happened last month when they put on Romeo & Juliet at Covent Garden and Proko fiev's not inconsiderable con tribution to the three-act ballet was mentioned quite generously. What ballet supporters will think of it I don't ...

... Pat Wallace English plays and English players in the last few years have been among our most successful exports, so success ful indeed that, a season or two back, there was dark talk in New York about a second British Invasion and Man hattan satirists were busy pointing out the possible dangers to home-grown pro ducts. Now things have settled down to a more peaceful two-way traffic and English ...

... Elspeth Grant/ It's no easy matter to assess the precise amount of money being earned abroad by British films because, as the British Film Producers Association will con firm, there's no industry like the film industry where the obtaining of essential financial backing and the final appor tioning of profits or loss are concerned. When I approached the above-named affable and efficient ...

... I Gerald Lascelles, While the old and near historic tracks by Big Bill Broonzy contine to be the most popular in the eyes of the purists, one must not overlook the work and influence of men like T- Bone Walker. His guitar play ing is exemplary of the electric style guitar work that has made such an indelible impres sion on pop music of the past two or three years, and his singing m T-Bone W ...

... Robert Wraight I could write this week about the South African, Cecil Skotnes, whose unique carved- wood panels are on show at the Grosvenor Gallery, or about the Australian, William Dobell, whose first one-man show is, rather belatedly, at the Qantas Gallery. And then there are all those exhibitions connected with the Commonwealth Arts Festival that ought to be written about. But this is the ...