27 DECEMBER 1969, page 22

Opera

Fighting cock CHARLES REID When choosing what `Christmassy' piece to put on, theatre managements do not, as a rule—a rule which applies in Opera houses as elsewhere—ask......

Cinema

Last things PENELOPE HOUSTON John and Mary (Riako, 'X') On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'A') The Sea Gull (Cameo-Poly, 'A') Karl Miller was inveighing......