11 JANUARY 1957, page 20

Verisimilitude

WHILE others have been sunk in hoggish slumber in their panto- mime seats I have been similarly employed at home. Certain phan- tasms have, however, floated through my......

King Oil

Giant. (Warner.) IT seems funny, to my simple sense of humour, to make a film three hours and nine- me in a state bordering on exhaustion by the end. It is also, though, one of......

The Prince And I A Thatee-acr Ballet By John Cranko,

with music by Benjamin Britten, scenery by John Piper and costumes by Desmond Hecley, launched English ballet into 1957. Its story is an amal g am of notions from earlier......