... 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 ...

... John Salt/ The trouble with time is that there is too much of it; the trouble with civilization is that everything sooner or later becomes a matter of record, and the trouble with people is that they have too long memo ries for their own good. I Politi cians, of course, suffer most grievously from this tripartite state of affairs and after politicians, playwrights. It fol lows, then, that a ...

... I Oliver Warner What a story-and-a-half is un folded in Richard J. Whalen's The Founding Father (Hutch inson 60s.). The author accur ately describes it as a study in Power, Wealth and Family Ambition, and it is filled out in all the detail which Ameri cans enjoy, and which their best journalists dig out so tire lessly. It is the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the late President ...

... Elspeth Grant It was impossible to remain for any length of time unaware of The Beatles-- they came at one from so many directions, there was simply no dodging 'em- hut without taking any delib erately evasive action I was able to ignore the existence of The Dave Clark Five until I ran across them in their first film, Catch Us If You Can (U). I still don't know what endears them to their ...

... Oliver Warner Despite the claims of at least two other biographies of merit, I have no shade of doubt that pride of place should go to George Painter. The second, long awaited volume of his Marcel Proust (Chatto & Win dus 40s.) sustains every scrap of the impetus and skill that were so startling in the first. He now takes the great French novelist up to the end of his brief and extraordinary ...

... Robert Wraight Until comparatively recently, when we talked about the Im pressionists, most of us thought only of Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and the other great masters of the movement, but during the past few years dealers, faced with a shortage of quality works by these great ones, have done themselves and us the on galleries Continued from page 133 service of discovering or re discovering ...

... John Salt There is sooner or later, I am much afraid, a bright little three-acter to he written about the fortunes and foibles of people engaged in the daily purveyance of radio and tele vision serial soap operas. Let me say at once that The Kil ling of Sister George at the Duke of York's Theatre, though concerned at the outset with similar subject matter, is rather more than a bright little ...

... Robert Wraight/ Just how different the results can he, when two original art ists are preoccupied with the same basic subject, is strikingly stressed by two exhibitions now on in Cork Street, Mayfair. The first exhibition, at the gallery of Roland, Browse & Delbanco, is of new paintings by John Selway. The second, at the Waddmgton Galleries, is of imoos by Bryan Wynter. The basic subject of ...

... John Salt Once upon a time there was a love story. It involved a hand some Crown Prince and a mys terious baroness who may have been a spy and it ended in death for both of them at a hunting lodge some distance from Vienna. The violent pas sing of Rudolf at Mayerling did not launch a world war that distinction was left to his cousin Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo a quarter century later but it ...

... Elspeth Grant/ The Boulting Brothers' Rotten To The Core (U) opens with a series of still, silent and rather unkind candid camera shots of Mr. Harold Wilson-- mouth ajar, mostly, and arms outflung in the haranguing politician's typical gesture. Ho hum, one thought the Brothers are go ing to have a bash at the Government this time. Alas, no. Mr. Wilson is simply there because a speech of his on ...

... Spike Hughes/ The Russian MK label has recently issued its first couple of stereo recordings, a tech nical feat that will no doubt be duly entered in Soviet school books as another great Russian invention. At present the rec ords seem to be stereo only; which is a pity, as those who don't like cluttering up the room with loudspeakers may be deprived of two most in teresting performances. Rach- ...

... John Salt In remote districts, it is said, the simple virtues linger long est, those of courage, virtue, duty and honour. Such a claim has been made for the Border. Mr. John Arden takes us to the region in his latest play, Armstrong's Last Goodbye, in the National Theatre Pro duction at Chichester. The period is early 16th century in the salad days of James V of Scotland when it speedily ap ...