15 MAY 1959, page 14

Television

Six-Minute Test By PETER - FORSTER THE first six minutes, it is often said, determine the viewing figure; if they can take that much, they will probably take the rest. In which......

Ballet

The Girls to Watch By CLIVE BARNES NOWADAYS Covent Garden rarely has the chance to'put its gala face towards the World, and the off-stage spectacle pre- sented for the Shah of......

Theatre

No Epitaph for Osborne B y ALAN BRIEN The assault was completely provoked—St. Sebastian Osborne issued the arrows personally, chalked , a bull's-eye on his chest, and let it be......