... West Germany Julia's Guide to the Opera, 26 minutes, English subtitles OPERA singer and comedienne Julia Migenes was the star of this satirical Iook at popular opera. A striking red head, she began with some clowning at a dress rehearsal before intro ducing straight to camera the main sequence which was a take-off of Don Giovanni. Thanks to the star's performance this had some very funny and ...

... Yugoslavia Don't shut your TV, 29 minutes ITHIS had English subtitles for links only and. since it was meant to be a satirical look at contemporary life and at television, this was a pity. The designer had put in some good work on the sets, animation, graphics and chromakey to fit his subject. A very glamorous blonde dancer doing a rock number got the show under way, followed by a group who ...

... WHAT she claims to be the first Welsh television puppet series is the creation of Jane Phillips. It all started, the says. when she gave a five-minute glove-puppet show in Welsh last Christinas as part of the BBC's Welsh children's magazine gramme. Telewek, which goes out in the mornings on Satur days. Following (he Initial ven ture, Ifan O. Williams, the pro gramme's producer, invited ...

... RICHARD MARKS, designer for ihe Liverpool Repertory Com pany, has excelled himself in the boiuifuHy s'.agcd and dressed pro duction of Glad Tidings, an American comedy by Edward Mably, presented on Tuesday last, at (he Liverpool Playhouse. The whole spirit of ihe play is gay and exhilarating, with wedJ- clched and well pUived charactci studies. Taking place on (he terrace of Steve Whitney's ...

... 'Two Plays' TWO one-act plays by the Polish author Slawomir Mrozek, were presented at the Traverse Theatre. Edinburgh, on August 28. The Party in its original language may have held some deep significance for Polish audiences, but it must be admitted that most of the audience at the Traverse at the opening performance seemed somewhat puzzled. Three young men noisily burst into a room, ...

... . While Samuel Goldwin and other people are hunting for stars in every walk of life exccpt those most likely to produce them, and Douglas Fairbanksi from the opulent seclusion of a Paris hotel, is telling us we never shall be able to make pictures, certain publicity experts are Jetting dawn the dig nity of a hard-working section of tho profej-sion by referring to its members as supers ...

... . BLACK WATERS (W. and P. British and Dominione.) Adapted from John Willard's play, Fog, this feature has several distinctions. It is the first all-talking picture which can be called international it was made by a famous American producer in Hollywood for a British firm iit naa inniuu ow ferent theatres, the New Gallery and the Tivoli, on tho same day, and it is undoubtedly the best ...

... THE CHANTICLEER EASTER On Saturday last, the Anglo- Arts (Drama) Club presented Easter. uv August Strindberg in a new translation by Elizabeth Sprlgge. with d6cor by Geoffrey Moss. The plot tells, it will be recalled, of an ill-fated family's return to happiness over the Easter period, and is full of sym bolism The producer Margaret Morris, rightly stressed this, for the characters are ...

... THE Q CLOUDED VISION On Tuesday was presented here a play in two acts and four scenes by Mary Lumsden entitled Clouded Vision. Played in the consulting room In Wimpole-street of an eminent ophthalmic surgeon, this new play hinges on the success or failure of an operation to graft the cornsa of a person's eye on to that of a blind person. Julie Dennlson. the sister-in-law of Sir Cosmo ...

... BRITISH EQUITY THEATRE CONFERENCE A members' meeting, to receive and discuss the deleqates' report on the recent British Theatre Conference, drew a large number to Victory House on Friday last. Sir Lewis Casson presided, and Gordon Sandison gave a comprehensive account of the proceedings and the resolutions carried under the sponsorship of Equity. The Minister of Health's announce- ment in ...

... BRISTOL PREMIERE FOREVER IN MY HEART At the Little. Bristol, on Mon day. the Rapier Players presented tor the first time on any stage a play by Brenda Green, entitled Forever in My Heart. This play has many faults, but it contains the germ of a good play. The author has. however, paid too much attention to trivialities It opens in a draw ing-room at Putney in May, 1929. A group of young ...

... CARISSIMA Shirl Conway at the Palace. ...