the post review of next week &apos;s shows . another from salad days stable . the team behind the longest running musical in the world ( salad days ) have come up with another musical which goes to the West End the week after it has finished at the Nottingham Theatre royal . the latest from the pens and pianos of Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds is wildest dreams , due to open at the Vaudeville on August 3 . wildest dreams is set in Nelderham , a country town in which a girl called Carol , just out of school , meets Mark , a young reporter sent to write up in satirical terms the town &apos;s reactions to his newspaper &apos;s questionnaire . as in salad days , the young couple have personality and purpose . Carol , though monosyllabic , rebellious and scruffy in the manner of some of the modern young , has a strong vision of her character and a determination to preserve it in the teeth of her aunt &apos;s interference . and Mark believes he has it in him to convert a whole country town . Anna Dawson plays the girl . now 24 , she got her first theatrical chance in a previous Slade-Reynolds musical , free as air , and , apart from pantomime and repertory experience , has been in marigold at the Savoy . John Baddeley , who partners her as Mark , was also in free as air , as well as follow that girl . aged 27 , he is an actor whose experience has varied from repertory at Birmingham , Sheffield , the Bristol Old Vic and Guildford to a tour in the lilac domino . with Julian Slade at the piano , Miss Reynolds plays the domineering aunt , who meets a composer who tries to sing his own songs ( Angus Mackay - in private life Miss Reynold &apos;s husband ) . the musical numbers are by Basil Pattison , and decor by Brian Currah , who recently designed for the caretaker . Playhouse : third week of second post , a revue of 28 items by various authors , produced by Val May before he leaves for Bristol Old Vic . targets range from the familiar skits on beat the clock and the Archers to the offbeat , with a cast of thirteen topped by Rhoda Lewis and Arthur Blake . City cinemas . following the same formula of a tearaway technique compounded of slapstick and double entendre , the sequel to dentist in the chair is dentist on the job at the ABC and Metropole cinemas . in this , the manager of a firm putting out a new toothpaste ( Eric Barker ) gets a couple of dentists to endorse it . it seems a good opportunity for the Dean of King Alfred &apos;s dental College ( likewise Eric Barker ) to unload a brace of recently graduated deadheads , Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens . with dental mechanic Kenneth Connor , just out of gaol , they dream up schemes to promote the new paste . in the process they meet Shirley Eaton - in a bubble bath on to which they turn a wind machine . their biggest achievement , however , is when they hear that the Americans are launching a satellite which will broadcast a tape recording of goodwill for seven years . now if a tape extolling the virtues of their toothpaste could be substituted &amp;hellip; ? some hardworking man at the Disney studios has counted the spots on the Dalmatians in one hundred and one Dalmatians at the Odeon . each dog wears 32 to 72 spots , depending on which side is exposed to the viewer - which accounts for 6,469,952 dancing spots . which is only right and proper in a 4,000,000-dollar production involving 800 miles of drawings , 1,000 colours and 800 tons of paint . the most sophisticated to date of Disney &apos;s 53 features , one hundred and one Dalmatians , brings together a human bachelor who owns a Dalmatian called Pongo and a shapely girl who owns one called Perdita . it is love at first sight , marriage at first opportunity , and soon fifteen beautiful puppies are born ( to the Dalmatians , that is ) . but enter a villainess , Cruella De Vil , rich , cunning and with a passion for coats made of Dalmatian hides . she dognaps the pups and puts them with 101 others in a haunted old English manor house . Scotland Yard is baffled , but the dogs of London get on to the scent . with gunlight at Sandoval , Tech Texas ranger Tom Tryon avenges death of friend killed trying to prevent bank hold-up . Dan Duryea . it was inevitable that Peter Ustinov should join the exclusive four-star club by writing , producing , directing and starring in one film . in Romanoff and Juliet , at the Gaumont , he is literally a four-star general , not to mention also being President and UN representative of the tiny country of Concordia , so small that even UN colleagues can n&apos;t locate it on the map . but the President wants to keep it that way , knowing that when it is discovered it will be either swamped with aid or blown off the map . love and laughter , he feels , engender more happiness than politics or philanthropy . at a meeting of the united nations he causes pandemonium by abstaining on an important vote involving an amendment to an amendment to an amendment , and on his return to Concordia becomes the target for the Russian ambassador , Romanoff , and the American ambassador , Moulsworth , both of whom insist on giving his country aid . keeping a wary eye on each other , they woo Concordia - while their respective offspring ( John Gavin and Sandra Dee ) are breaking down international barriers with a spot of wooing themselves . Technicolor . with a date with death , Gerald Mohr tracks policeman &apos;s killer . in the roaring expansion of the west a century ago , no town is more terrorised than Warlock ( elite ) where the people have been reduced to a handful of cowardly citizens as one sheriff after another is murdered or run out of town in the monthly beat-up the place receives from a bunch of cowboys from the San Pablo ranch . the brawlers , drinkers and killers include Richard Widmark , who has grown to hate these descents on the defenceless town since he took part in the massacre of harmless Mexicans . in desperation of ever getting a new sheriff who can protect them by law , the townsfolk hire Henry Fonda who will be able to use his fast gunplay and be above the law . accompanied by crippled gambler Anthony Quinn , the new Marshal arrives and makes his mark . sickened by all the lawless killing , Widmark throws in his lot with him . Dorothy Malone . CinemaScope , Tech . with between heaven and hell , CinemaScope , Terry Moore feels that the feudal attitude husband Robert Wagner has towards the sharecroppers on his land will one day cause trouble . and when he is called into the army , it does . Mechanics : there was a crooked man . ex army explosives expert Norman Wisdom is persuaded to join gang of safecrackers by the argument that if there were n&apos;t any criminals , all the clergymen , police and probation officers would be out of work . after a few successes , the gang disguise themselves as American army officers and work a gigantic swindle by blowing up an entire town . Susannah York . Alfred Marks . with trapeze , crippled and embittered by a fall , circus star Burt Lancaster refuses to teach American acrobat Tony Curtis the dangerous triple somersault . whirling round in the circus tent , they solve an emotional triangle involving Gina Lollobrigida . in Japan , apparently , they play something called the Cola game , described at the Scala . a circle of boys and girls place a Coca-Cola bottle on its side and spin it . when it stops , the couple to whom it points must make love in front of the others which explains why Coca-Cola sells very well in Japan . a pretty young co-ed named Junko gets into the game and thus meets a youngster with whom she has an affair . discovering herself pregnant she has an abortion , but her lover could n&apos;t care less and goes off on a ski-ing trip with the girl in the next apartment . Junko moves out of his flat and goes to live with a young architect whom she respects greatly and who feels sorry for her . in this way , it says here , she experiences the true meaning of love and happiness . X-certificate . Phillipe Lemarre has been the scapegoat of some doubtful pals in les clandestines at the Moulin Rouge . sent to gaol for two years , he has quixotically , refused to clear himself by betraying his colleagues , and , when he gets out , finds his grandfather has been driven to suicide by a bunch of crooks . now there is a thriving call-girl racket operating from the old man &apos;s apartment which they have taken over . with the help of blonde mannequin Nicole Courcel , the released prisoner pieces the story together . with the parasites , Jeanne Moreau is a streetgirl forever searching for real love in Montmartre . when her protector is betrayed to the police she gets entangled with other shadowy creatures of the underworld . both films X-certificate . the post review of next week &apos;s shows . Jessie and Ralph twinkle again . two veterans of the twenties and thirties - one remembered for her vivacity in musicals , and the other for his assinities in a series of world famous farces - visit Nottingham next week as a team . Jessie Matthews and Ralph Lynn come to the Theatre royal in a farce called port in a storm by Rex Howard Arundel . the ex Cochran young lady and the monocled ass of so many pieces of Ben Travers at the Aldwych are cast respectively as a crime novelist and her old flame . she hides him at home when he is on the run from his virago of a wife until she discovers that she is also harbouring a stolen diamond necklace . the writer has a house staff of ex-convicts to keep her in touch with the way of the underworld , and the farce &apos;s ingredients include a long-lost son , a runaway secretary and a lock-picking butler . the play is on its pre-London tour . Jessie Matthews made her first appearance on the stage in 1917 when she was ten years old , and took to revue five years later . she made her first hit while still in her teens , understudying Gertrude Lawrence in America , and when she came back to London she twinkled for many years as C B Cochran &apos;s brightest discoveries in shows that ranged from this year of grace and one damn thing after another to the famous evergreen which , as well as being made into a film , ran for two years . Miss Matthews last came to the Nottingham Theatre Royal in 1955 when she and her daughter Katie played in Coward &apos;s private lives . nearly 80 . now a lively 79 , Ralph Lynn has been going strong on the stage since 1900 ( when he appeared in King of terrors at Wigan ) , and about 1925 was up to his debonair tricks at the old repertory theatre in Hyson Green , Nottingham , when the Grand was a going concern . he , Tom Walls and Robertson Hare made the name of the Aldwych synonymous with farce through such classics of foolery as cuckoo in the nest , Thark and Rookery Nook . Mr Lynn and his bald sparring partner appeared at the Theatre royal in 1952 in the premiere of a later Ben Travers farce , wild horses . they were together again two years later in Peter Jones &apos;s the party spirit . Mr ( oh , calamity ! ) Hare can be seen again in Nottingham , by the way , on October 16 , when he plays in the tour of the bride come back with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge . Playhouse : fourth and positively final week of the revue second post twenty-eight items of song , sketch and dance by various authors . two of them have just been sold for the new west end revue the Lord Chamberlain regrets - Lady of the camellias , in which Rhoda Lewis sings a la Dietrich , and cries of old London involving three decrepit bellringers and a stomach-heaving sick joke . City cinemas . a ten-year-old opus by Alfred Hitchcock is re-issued at the ABC and Metropole - his strangers on a train . a long train journey often prompts complete strangers to strike up a casual conversation . they will talk about the weather , politics or crime . but it &apos;s rare for two people to talk about murder on a personal level . 