next week &apos;s entertainment in the City . Carne &apos;s study of youth &apos;s aimlessness . the youth whose symptom is a strange restlessness and a desire to take the best from life without putting anything into it - the beatnik - is depicted in les tricheurs ( youthful sinners ) , the film coming to the Rex next week , directed by the brilliant Frenchman , Marcel Carne . the setting is St Germain-des-Pres and the Latin quarter of Paris , but it could be anywhere where semi-students and semi-idle youth forgathers , with negative emotions , drowning doubts in jazz and drink , betting stupidly and cheating with life , love and truth . acting awards . Marcel Carne does not condemn them ; he believes that their way of life is caused through lack of parental interest , and hopes , that through this film , some of these adults will wake up to their responsibilities . les tricheurs was the most successful film to be shown in France last year . it was awarded the grand prix du cinema Francais , and its two stars , Pascale Petit and Jacques Charrier , were given the best actress and actor award of the year for their performances . Mummers in play debut . to follow their successful production of all my sons by Arthur Miller , shortly to be presented again for the arts Theatre , C.U Mummers will give the first Cambridge presentation of the dream of Peter Mann by Bernard Kops at the A.D.C Theatre next week . Kops is well known for his Hamlet of Stepney Green , whose production at the arts two years ago caused such widespread interest . the dream of Peter Mann , whose only previous production was at last year &apos;s Edinburgh festival , sees Kops striking a balance between the urgency of his ideas and his talent for vital , colourful entertainment . it is to run at the A.D.C from Tuesday to Saturday of next week at 8.15 , with a 2.30 matinee on Saturday . Guinness and Mills conflict . based on the best selling novel by James Kennaway , the controversial tunes of glory , comes to the Regal Cinema next week to give cinema-goers the opportunity of seeing two of Britain &apos;s most brilliant actors . for playing the leading parts of two C.O.&apos;s of a highland regiment are Alec Guinness and John Mills , the one having won the affection of his men by leading them through the war , and the other a hard , efficient newcomer who is heartily disliked by the majority of the soldiers . the relationship between the two men and their influence on the regiment forms the basis of the plot , while the affairs of the soldiers in their off-time , provides an opportunity to introduce some glamour into this tough and tragic film . supporting roles are played by Dennis Price , John Fraser , Kay Walsh and Susannah Yorke . the film is produced by Colin Leslie and directed by Ronald Neaman . Christie play on film . following the West End stage success of the spider &apos;s web , Agatha Christie &apos;s thriller has now been made into a film starring Jack Hulbert , Cicely Courtneidge , Glynis Johns and John Justin . it is to be shown at the Central Cinema next week . the action covers one day in the lives of the occupants of a pleasant country house who find they have a body on their hands shortly before the arrival of an important foreign diplomat . guest artist . at all costs this must be covered up so that the important conference with the V.I.P can take place , and it is in this endeavour that the plot develops , drawing into it a number of mysterious suspects . introducing 13 years old Wendy Turner to the screen as the daughter of the household , the film also enables David Nixon to make a guest appearance . new group &apos;s arts visit . the glass menagerie , thought by some American critics to be Tennessee Williams &apos; greatest play , it is undoubtedly his most heart-felt , has not yet been performed professionally in Cambridge . at the arts Theatre next week , it will be presented by the group of three , a new company recently created by Charles Vance , who will direct the play with the same cast - Imogen Moynihan , Ben Hawthorne , Joan Shore and himself - that has won critical acclaim elsewhere . Charles Vance comes from a theatrical family especially well-known in Northern Ireland . of the other members of the group of three , Imogen Moynihan has experience in management as well as being an actress of talent and Joan Shore has been delighting audiences at Ipswich , Northampton , Cromer and other theatres in East Anglia . Ben Hawthorne , a young New Zealand actor of great promise , has the important role of the son in the glass menagerie , and completes a cast that is an unusually well-balanced team . backstage slums . substantial improvements have taken place over a wide range of theatres since 1946 , but there are still far too many theatrical slums which could be vastly improved at small cost , declares the quarterly equity letter . it calls on all members of the British actors &apos; equity association to write asking their M.P.s to urge the government not to omit theatres from the proposed legislation concerning amenities in shops and offices . two artists who live in mills . where paints &amp; music go together &amp;hellip; . music and painting live side by side complimenting each other at Pampisford Mill , the home of the Campbell-Taylors . while her 24 years old daughter practises at her grand piano , Mrs Campbell-Taylor is often painting at the other end of their ground floor studio . I can paint better with music as my companion , she said . the mill has been converted attractively . the river swirls a few yards from the front door and provides just the setting of this artistic family . Mrs Campbell-Taylor does not like to trade on her husband &apos;s name - he is a royal academician - so she uses her maiden name of Brenda Moore . specialising in portraits she resumed her profession five years ago having seen her daughter launched in her own career as a pianist and teacher . won scholarships . her art training started when , at the age of 14 , she was sent for a trial term to the Oxford School of art . later she went to the Brighton School and was awarded a local scholarship . when she was 20 years old she won a leaving scholarship to the royal academy Schools . one of the first visiting members of the royal academy to instruct her was Mr Campbell-Taylor who was to become her husband five years later . rather than branch into commercial art on leaving the academy , she became an apprentice to a picture frame maker , and still makes mounts for her water colours and drawings . although her painting career was interrupted , she helped her husband and continued to accumulate painting knowledge . you never lose the ability to paint once you have absorbed the first principles in art - practise is not as essential in painting as it is for instrument playing , she says . child portraits . on the difference between the professional and the amateur artist , Mrs Campbell-Taylor said : it could not be defined by income or pay packet . the professional is never satisfied with an easy answer and believes that nothing is so worth-while as the problem that arouses all the receptivity , excitement and competence he is capable of experiencing which tuition has accelerated . for the amateur it is an emotional outlet which can also have its own monetary value in these days . in the studio she has some delightful portraits and drawings of children , so I asked if she particularly enjoyed this type of work . Mrs Campbell-Taylor replied that while having no preference for the age of her subject , she did find painting children particularly interesting and often a challenge . she usually stays with the family and makes studies of the child when asleep before attempting the painting . you really have to get an idea of the personality and form before you start . it is as exciting and difficult for a child to sit as it is for the painter to paint . clay modelling . the fun of portrait painting , she added , is in trying to assess and understand the temperament of the people you are painting . as an artist she has learned a considerable amount from clay modelling , which she has exhibited as well as paintings - including one of the anointing of the Queen Mother , then Queen , at the coronation of George 6 - at the royal academy . and recently Mrs Campbell-Taylor had two drawings at the royal society of portrait painters &apos; exhibition . &amp;hellip; and a studio that will be lit by glass dome . I met another artist who will soon be living in a mill - this time a windmill at Hemingford Grey . Mrs Jeanette Jackson , a London abstract painter who is currently exhibiting her work in Cambridge , hopes the conversion of the windmill will be completed by the early autumn . the windmill has been admired by Mrs Jackson since childhood and many times , like Jimmy Edwards , she has attempted to buy it , at last being successful . it will have a glass dome to let in the light , and the four floors will give plenty of studio room . frame problem . the family - she has a son at Trinity and one daughter - will spend their week-ends at Hemingford Grey , Mrs Jackson working as an art teacher in a London school during the week . the day I met her she had a problem on her hands . one of her paintings , 8 ft by 5 ft was sent unframed to the women &apos;s international art club &apos;s exhibition . it came back that morning with a frame , and would not go through the front or back door . Mrs Jackson is an extraordinary prolific painter . in one year she paints more than 200 pictures , though not all these survive her critical scrutiny . other interests . she is passionately fond of cooking . having lived in Germany for several years she always cooks their national dishes for her friends unless they are foreigners - then she always cooks roast beef and apple pie . her other interest is collecting Victoriana . when she first started this 25 years ago she bought a Victorian chair for 7 s 6 d , which she is sure will now fetch somewhere in the region of &amp;pound;30 . a soldier who turned to pottery at age of 52 . work of Reychan exhibited at Heffer Gallery . the Heffer Gallery have just opened an exhibition of the works of Stanislas Reychan , the Polish soldier who began training as a potter at the age of 52 . his remarkable success must be due to some extent to heredity - he is of the fifth generation in a family of potters - but heredity can not explain everything . almost everyone must have seen his pieces of pottery sculpture at some time or another . the shiny little black bulls , with curly foreheads lowered ; the rather pear-shaped Adam and Eve figures sitting happily under a snake-entwined tree in a pottery Eden - pieces like these must be familiar to thousands . Reychan has exhibited in the open air exhibitions in London , and for the past six years at the royal academy . his work has been welcomed as an important modern flowering of the tradition which produced the exquisite pieces of Bow and Chelsea , and the curiosities of Staffordshire . Reychan &apos;s knights in armour , his medieval heroes , classical personalities , are undeniably works of art of a very vital and individual kind . their appeal , being modern , is direct and uncomplicated . in spite of the humour that has gone into a good many of them , they are not without dignity . two companion pieces , lion and unicorn , are rather attractive ; Hercules ( taming a lion ) , Silenus ( his arm thrown blissfully over a barrel ) , a centaur , executed in unglazed red earthenware , turning to shoot an arrow back over his shoulder - these are just a few that catch the eye , among many . their prices , considered against the prices of more conventional pottery , are certainly not excessive . P.O . Selwyn Mitre players good choice . Shakespeare &apos;s two gentlemen of Verona , this year &apos;s production by the Selwyn Mitre players , has emerged as a choice well-suited to the available talent , and in general commendable for its boldness , fluency and straight forward interpretation . performed in the College Hall against a dark backcloth , with no scenery other than an odd chair or table to relieve the bareness of the stage , it naturally depended entirely upon the acting for its success . 