19 JANUARY 1962, page 16

Television

Not a Happy One By PETER FORSTER THE most extraordinary com- mercial of all has arrived. It shows a platoon of commandos blowing up a bridge, while a • soft, urgent male voice......

Ballet

The Cinderella Story By CLIVE BARNES To call the Prokofiev music sub-Tchaikovsky is not particularly insulting. In ballet music it is rather the equivalent of saying: 'That's......

Cinema

Uncertain Amis By ISABEL QUIGLY Only Two Can Play, (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — Purple Noon. (New Victoria and general release.) WHY doesn't Kingsley Amis come across on the screen?......