... Flip tempted into the Canteen A LEGENDARY American sax player has been tempted to the UK for an ex clusive season at London's newest jazz club. Flip Phillips, one of the great names on the US music scene in the forties and fifties, has agreed to play Covent Garden's Canteen on condition that he flies straight back to his home after the two- week season. His refusal to tour extensively has kept ...

... The Promise CHICHESTER THE CABLE Theatre Company, a new professional group, presented The Promise at the Chichester New Park Road Community Centre. This Russian love story by Alexei Ar- buzov revolves around three teenagers, a girl and two boys, who are thrown together and develop a strong relation ship during the siege of Leningrad in 1942. Later, the return of the boys from the war, Marat ...

... Much-needed music club in Manchester MANCHESTER IS to have a much-needed music club, catering to all tastes, thanks to the work of local jazz lovers. i nc jazz i>cnirc oocieiy s norm-west office has shouldered the hefty financial burden of converting one of the city's original Victorian ale houses into a six nights a week music venue. A year of fund-raising has taken the JCS halfway to its £50 ...

... A second catastrophe for Court MOIRA PETTY reports A SECOND catastrophe has hit Liverpool's financially crippled Royal Court Theatre. Less than a month after it shut its doors in the face of a mounting tide of debts, natural disaster struck, with burst pipes causing floods a couple of feet deep in the theatre. Joint leaseholder Allan Knipe had been conducting delicate negotiations to ease the ...

... Showbiz crusaders CRUSADING LONDON performers have banded together to help newcomers on to the first rung of the showbiz ladder. The Artists Variety Association has taken on the ambitious task of helping to educate and find employment for per formers in a shrinking market-place but AVA itself has been beset by teething problems. Although its founders began doing the groundwork three years ago, ...

... Pop artists turn to theatre world POP PERFORMERS are turning to the contemporary theatre world with a vengeance. l nis week tormer Hawkwind lead singer Robert Calvert moved into the West End's Arts Theatre for an extend ed rock cabaret essay on the theme of hype. The show is intended as a pilot for Calvert's dream of staging a full-blown musical based on his exploration of the unattractive ...

... New Image ONE OF Britain's top model agencies has expanded its horizons only weeks after the collapse of a major rival. The folding of Bobton's sent ripples through the fashion world just before Christmas. And this week Wimpole Street's The Model Agency announced that after six years it is to be known as Image, in an at tempt to reflect a planned change of em phasis within the company. Founder ...

... Vivid style of a cartoon strip UPSTREAM You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown THE MUSICAL version of Schulz's famous cartoon strip has a bright new production this Christmas at the Upstream in Waterloo, which has been its home for several seasons. Clark Gesner's score is entrusted to Roger Sisson at the piano. David Roger's set comprise* a simple raised platform with Snoopy's kennel. Other scenery ...

... Grounded by an icy slip BRITAIN'S ICY roads have put Shef field singing trio the Song Spinners out of action for up to three months. Guitarist Phil Stanley slipped and badly broke his left arm recently as he made his way home after a date at Chesterfield's Aquarius nightclub. Remaining Song Spinners, cousins Harry Richmond and Babs Lawrence, battled on to finish the week's engage ment there as ...

... Fairy-tale luck A TWIST of fate saved a Leeds pan tomime when its star fell ill suddenly last week. The City Varieties' home-grown pro duction of Cinderella seemed doomed when its leading player Ken Platt col lapsed with a chest complaint. In desperation, ATS Agency chief Stanley Joseph phoned popular children's comedian Charlie Cairoli at his Blackpool home. He was in luck. Not only had ...

... Lightfinger RATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY AUDIENCES HAVE expectations about the type of show they imagine they will see which have as much to do with the venue as with any other aspect of cultural presumption. Taking their children to a play in the lecture theatre of the Natural History Museum, they no doubt anticipated a straightforward environmental demonstration wrapped prettily in a dramatic ...

... Horsham loses out HORSHAM THEATRE-LOVERS have lost their battle to retain the town's Capitol Theatre. A full meeting of the West Sussex Council this week voted to go ahead with its controversial plan for a Marks Spencers. The retailing giant wants to be on site by October, when it will demolish the theatre, and erect a new store in its place. The council plans to provide alternative theatre ...