28 JULY 1990, page 38

Sale-rooms

Inflation and perversion Alistair McAlpine T here has been much holding of breath in the world's major sale-rooms in the last few months — a couple of Van Goghs passed the line.......

Cinema

Interrogation (`18' Premiere, Swiss Centre) Process of torture Hilary Mantel T onia is an `artiste'; in Poland, in 1951, she warbles and wiggles in fishnet tights a lame dress......

Theatre

The Silver King (Chichester Festival Theatre ) A cut above melodrama Christopher Edwards H enry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) was considered, in his time, to be an lbsenite'.......