... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Oliver Warner The Earl of Avon's The Reck oning (Cassell 42s.) is a work covering not only the span of World War II but much of what led up to it. The author's own part in standing up not merely to the dictators who once over shadowed Europe, but to those at home, in office and else where, who had little under standing of foreign affairs, is set forth in detail. This record is of such interest ...

... Spike Hughes Pianists are not, on the whole, the most adventurous of musicians. When one extends his repertoire of works for piano and orchestra beyond the minimum needed to ensure a return engagement on the international circuit, it is pretty astonishing. When not one, but two, unfamiliar works of this kind find their way on to one record it's a miracle. Miss Marjorie Mitchell, from Oklahoma, ...

... J. Roger Baker Maurice Ravel wrote two operas, both short and both like the rest of his output in other forms, polished and re fined to a degree that makes one more immediately aware of the artificial glitter of the surface than their strong sen sual undertow. One of them, L'Heure Espagnol, has been seen in a New Opera Company production a few years ago and more recently at Covent Gar den. The ...

... Elspeth Grant There was quite a fuss in France over Jean-Luc Godard's latest film, Une Femme Mariée--a witty, perceptive account of 24 sex-crammed hours in the life of a young married woman who is toying with the idea of leaving her husband for her lover. Because it was originally called La Femme Mariee it was banned and refused an export licence as the French censor felt this title gave the ...

... I Elspeth Grant The smile, slightly crooked hut indulgent, with which Signor Pietro Germi sent-up the Sicilians in Divorce Italian Style seems, in Seduced & Abandoned, to have given way to a savage, snarly grin. One could almost assume that he heartily agrees with the character, a bored police chief who feels it would be better for everybody if Sicily were wiped off the map in view of the ...

... / Elspeth Grant, There's a wink in the voice of the narrator, John Dehner, as he introduces The Hallelujah Trail (U) with a solemn account of the sad state of affairs in Denver City, Colorado, in 1867, when, through a combination of most unfortunate circum stances, only 10 days' supply of whisky remained in the whole community to see the hard- drinking miners through the rapidly approaching ...