... France (TF 1) Number One: Raymond Devos, 51 minutes, no sub titles WE logged that 28W minutes of this production was taken up with the comedian star of the show, Ray mond Devos, doing a stand up act straight to camera. A sort of Bernard Manning who is very popular in France, Devos worked hard trying to inject some life into gags heard in the Paris music halls before televi sion ran them down. ...

... Switzerland The Little Guitar, 34 minutes AN orchestra rehearsing in the studio takes a break for lunch and the char is left to do some tidying up. This is her chance to realise her ambition of becoming a performer. She sees a small guitar and from there we are taken through some numbers, dream sequences and reality, with a little animation of instruments. There was a tango number, Indian ...

... Sweden Little Intimacies, 29 minutes, English subtitles THE theme of this was love and being in love. It began with a couple in a large pink bed with him thinking about an article he had been reading about sex and saying that because he is thinking about it he doesn't actually feel like making love. We then cut to a bar set and a song. That was faded and up came cushion replicas of male ...

... Great Britain (BBC) Not The Nine O'Clock News, 23 minutes, no sub titles LIKE The Plank this made people laugh a lot. Unfortunately delivery was a bit too quick for many non- English speakers (a risk a producer takes with that kind of show). Nevertheless, it stood out well among so much that had been un funny. Programmes at the 20th Golden Rose of Montreux DENIS NORDEN (left) talking to ...

... Great Britain (BBC) Kelly Monteith, 23 minutes, no subtitles THIS BBC entry died quickly in the press jury. One of the main reasons being that many could not under stand what was being said. Many said that it was not funny anyway even if they could have understood more of what was being said. ...

... West Germany (ZDF) Judy Winter: A Woman of Many Parts, 33 minutes, En glish subtitles THE star took four parts in this production: a journalist on a readers' problem page, a woman on a romantic sea voyage, a night club singer, and a salesgirl in a department store. The journalist is at home with her husband with a rotten cold but is replying to letters from readers. The readers are the woman ...

... Charley's Aunt CHESTER SUE WILSON, artistic director at the Gateway, Chester, made a wise choice in Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt as the opening production for the autumn season. Wilson obtains a superb response from her company with Malcolm McKee in full cry as Jack Chesney, the instigator or perhaps perpetrator of the central theme, with able support ftom Iwan Thomas (Charley ...

... Our Kindness to Five Persons EDINBURGH A PLAY which deals with the cohesion and tensions among a group of friends at a re-union party gets a more vivid playing from the students of the Queen Margaret College Drama School than the evidence of the plot justifies in Tom Gallacher's play, Our Kindness to Five Persons. The party-goers, in their maturity, discover a renewal of the influence ...

... Heartbreak House DUBLIN JOE VANEK'S pale, scanty set gives a sepulchral tone to this Gate production of Heartbreak House, and Patrick Mason's direction confirms the theme of mourning. The pace is as slow as a funeral march, and the Shavian humour is frequently overshadowed by a sense of doom. Individual performances are plausi ble. Ingrid Craigie is very fine as Ellie Dunn, and Alan ...

... POOLE The Last of the Mohicans STAND by, theatre-goers, the New Vic is on the war-path with its very individual presentation of James Fenimore Cooper's classic, The Last of the Mohicans. Remember the 1936 film of this story of courage and bravery, starring Ran dolph Scott and Binnie Barnes? Forget it. The New Vic's is about one Geoffrey Winthrop, secretary of the Sons of Hiawatha (Indian ...

... Hollies star gets behind Chicken Shed By RICHARD BALLS HOLLIES STAR Francis Haines is putting the final touches to a unique album featuring disabled youngsters from the London theatre group Chicken Shed. The flourishing theatre workshop group, who now have more than 250 members and were recently featured in a TV documentary Another Side of London, are preparing to take one of their shows to a ...

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