27 APRIL 1991, page 38

Sale-rooms

Wooing the Japanese Alistair McAlpine W ith almost monotonous regularity the great sales of Impressionist and mod- ern paintings come around again and the dealers sit and look......

Cinema

Hamlet (`U', Odeon Haymarket) Unmelancholy Dane Gabriele Annan A t school we were made to read J. Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet. It made us see that Hamlet is a thriller......