15 FEBRUARY 1963, page 19

Theatre

Shock Proof IIAMBER GASCOIGNE B y Baal. (Phoenix.) — Jackie the Jumper. (Royal Court.) BRECHT'S first-performed play, Drums in the Night, took a favourite sentimental theme, a......

Cinema

Against the Head By ISABEL QUIGLY This Sporting Life. (Odeon, Leicester Square; 'X' cer- tificate.) DAVID STOREY'S novel This Sporting Life is an extra- ordinary one; but......

Ballet

Swan Queens By CLIVE BARNES to be found in Soviet Russia. They have been handed down to us from the original 1895 pro- duction and it is a pity to mess them around. Nureyev does......