... Canada Dream Weaver, 50 minutes, no subtitles A SORT of variety ice show, this might have been an outstanding production had it not been for a poor beginning, and mixing just a little too many solo pieces. Performed in front of an audience, it looked like a very expensive and very rehearsed production. Star of the show was skater Toller Cranston and he was joined by song writer and performer ...

... 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 ...

... ROBERT HELPMANN'S picturesque and imaginative production, treating the work almost as ballet, remains the best thing about this revival. The elaboration and grace of the grouping, and the enchanting brilliance of colour place the right emphasis on LE COQ D OR Revival of the opera by Rimsky- Korsakov. Presented by the Covent Garden Opera Company at Covent Garden on February 10. Scenery and ...

... 'FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY' J CINCE it opened in June of last year, For Amusement Only. at the Lyric, has seen several changes in the cast. and this has brought new material to replace that which beat me dated in this fast-moving world. Wallas Eaton has inherited most of the numbers in which Hugh Paddick was featured and brings out their flavour extremely well, in Some Day You'll Find Me he gives a ...

... STAGE fighting, especially with swords, has been an important aspect of theatre production, at certain periods being dealt with by selected experts to ensure accuracy as well as dramatic effect. Today, stage fighting production or arrangement has become something of an art in itself. For the amateur, youth or school company, though the professional too may find it of interest, the latest ...

... THE UNITY SIX MEN OF DORSET To those accustomed to the excellent standard frequently achieved in the presentations at the Unity Theatre the production of Six Men of Dorset seen on Friday will be something of a ?i) ...

... NEW LINDSEY WINTERSET On Monday. Independent Theatre Productions, by arrange ment with the New Lindsey Theatre Club, presented a revival of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset. The group of young players, sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, the American Correspondents' Association and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. who have put on this production, deserve every help and consideration for ...