Arts Round-up
Theatre
Christmas Shows: Next week's additions to the holiday shows already playing in the London theatre are Sooty's Christmas Show (May Fair) and Toad of Toad Hall (Duke of York's), both for matinees from December 20; Cinderella (Palladium) from December 21; and The Wizard of Oz (Victoria Palace), matinees from December 24. Others are due to open on Boxing Day; complete guide to all of them in next week's Spectator. The National Theatre's last production of the year and its last at the New Theatre, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, with cast including Laurence Olivier, Constance Cummings and Ronald Pickup, opens on December 21,
Cinema
Holiday choice of ' big ' musicals and other epics in London includes Fiddler on the Roof (Dominion), The Song of Norway (Casino), Nicholas and Alexandra (Odeon, Leicester Square), How the West Was Won (Astoria) and Ryan's Daughter (Empire). Specially for the kids: Willy Wonisa and the Chocolate Factory (Plaza), and they should also like Jacques Tati's Traffic (Prince Charles).
Otherwise recommended: Gumshoe, reviewed in this issue (Warner West End); Milos Forman's Taking Off (Odeon Kensington); the revival of MA*S*H, the incomparably and uncomfortably funny picture of Americans at war (Studio One); and the bizarrely contrasted double-bill, Death in Venice and Woodstock (Times, Baker Street).
Art
Don't miss: the Hogarth show (over 200 works) at the Tate, where there is also an exhibition of Blake's illustrations for poems by Thomas Gray; and in the private galleries, 'emblematic expressionist' Adolph Gottlieb at the Marlborough Fine Art, and the late Joan Eard/ey, pastels and paintings, at Roland, Browse and Delbanco.
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