31 DECEMBER 1965, page 14

Ba Llet

A Russian Christmas N OT only have the Russians invented the steam engine, the telephone and nearly everything else, it seems, from the ballet offer- ings this Yuletide, that......

Vintage Swine

An ideal Husband. (Strand.)—Babes in the Wood. (Palladium.)—Twang! (Shaftesbury.) AT the Strand a second instalment of Mt. Peter IABridge's scheme unfolds. Late Wilde follows......

Television

Funderbirds T HE first few minutes of Thunderbirds (ATV —6.35 p.m. Saturdays) is taken up with yells of recognition as the rockets and space ships, their code numbers blazoned......