21 MAY 1988, page 50

Theatre

The Shaughraun (Olivier) French Without Tears (Haymarket, Leicester) Irish charmer Christopher Edwards S o 19th-century melodrama has at last found a home at the National......

Jazz

Sharp dressers Geoffrey Smith A ll the signs indicate that the current flowering of public interest in jazz seems set to continue. The coming season's festiv- als, like Brighton......

Cinema

Tampopo ('18', Metro; Screen on the Hill) Noodle cuisine Hilary Mantel A ccording to a recent report in the Daily Telegraph, the Ministry of Education in Japan is gravely......