14 JUNE 1963, page 19

) Era And Ballet

Marriage Talk By DAVID CAIRNS COVENT Garden have not had a very happy season. The postponement of Billy Budd owing to casting difficulties, the cancellation of the Visconti......

Bird-watching

p ERHAPS the craft or cunning of ballet criti- cism has something in common with bird- watching. Certainly the thrill it can provide for its practitioner—that of unexpectedly......

Cinema

Illiberal Dream By ISABEL QU1GLY The Ugly American. (Odeon, Haymarket; 'LP certificate.) SINCE the days when he was expected to scratch his head and grunt his way through the......

Theatre

Skill in Surgery By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Masters. (Savoy.)—Wher e Angels Fear to Tread. (New Arts.) — On the scene had to be cut, compressed or even shift i ed from its original......