29 OCTOBER 1988, page 45

Arts

Dance Prometheus unsound Deirdre McMahon The Royal Ballet (Covent Garden) W ith the advent of the new regime at the Royal Opera House, there has been a lot of soul-searching in......

Cinema

The Dawning (`PG', Odeon Haymarket) Innocents abroad Hilary Mantel I reland, 1921: Nancy Gulliver is 18 and s just left school. Her father disappeared years ago and her mother......

Jazz

Cream cornettists Martin Gayford he cornet has been out of fashion for 60 years. Early New Orleans music was dominated by cornettists such as King Oliver and Buddy Bolden,......