28 FEBRUARY 1969, page 20

Proved- Most Royal

ARTS HILARY SPURLING Tony Richardson's production of Hamlet opened last week in the Roundhouse at Chalk Farm; and it would be hard to imagine a more magical background for the......

Che Sera Sera

THEATRE MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH The only full-length new play to be presented in the National Theatre's season at the Jean- netta Cochrane was John Spurling's MacRune's Guevara (as......

Cinema

Tough luck PENELOPE HOUSTON Sweet Charity (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'A') Candy (Odeon, Kensington, 'X') The Sergeant (Cameo-Poly, 'X') It seems a little hard to criticise a......