10 JANUARY 1969, page 19

Cinema

Plantagenets please PENELOPE HOUSTON The Secret Life of an-American Wife (Rialto, 'X') 'It's 1183 and we're barbarians.' sings out Katharine Hepburn's Eleanor of Aquitaine in......

Apres Moi, Who Cares? Arts

STEPHEN GARDINER When I pass the Shell Centre or that squalid row of office blocks across the river from the Tate or some similar monstrosity, I invariably think, perhaps for......

Beauty In Distress

BALLET CLEMENT CRISP I imagine that controversy about the new Sleeping Beauty at Covent Garden will simmer for some time, but, for the record, I must here register my own......