20 JULY 1974, page 25

Fringe Theatre

Ever since Eden Gill Pyrah There is an old story that the first thing Eve did when Adam came home at night was count his ribs, and ever since Eden writers have been preoccupied......

Cinema

Are you sitting comfortably? Duncan FaHowell The Conversation Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Star: Gene Hackman. AA' Universal, Regent Street (114 minutes) The Nun And The......

Television

Old style Clive Gammon "Tommy is driving his battered car along a deserted road when he is suddenly waved down by a damsel in distress. . ." The words do not evoke confidence,......

Opera

Cheltenham Festival Rodney Milnes No doubt about it, Cheltenham is is a four-star festival town. Less severe than Bath in its architectural beauty, more cheerful, with its......

Will Wasp

There is plainly a need for some sort of central subject register in the film business — for even the unlikeliest subjects, once in the public domairt, are apt to be taken up......