NEXT WEEK'S ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CITY .sx CARNE'S STUDY OF YOUTH'S AIMLESSNESS .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx ACTING AWARDS .sx 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 .sx " Les Tricheurs " was the most successful film to be shown in France last year .sx 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 .sx Mummers In Play Debut .sx 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 .sx Kops is well known for his " Hamlet of Stepney Green , " whose production at the Arts two years ago caused such widespread interest .sx " The Dream of Peter Mann , " whose only previous production was at last year's Edinburgh Festival , sees Kops striking a balance between the urgency of his ideas and his talent for vital , colourful entertainment .sx 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 .sx GUINNESS AND MILLS CONFLICT .sx 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's most brilliant actors .sx For playing the leading parts of two C.O.'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 .sx 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 .sx Supporting roles are played by Dennis Price , John Fraser , Kay Walsh and Susannah Yorke .sx The film is produced by Colin Leslie and directed by Ronald Neaman .sx CHRISTIE PLAY ON FILM .sx Following the West End stage success of " The Spider's Web , " Agatha Christie's thriller has now been made into a film starring Jack Hulbert , Cicely Courtneidge , Glynis Johns and John Justin .sx It is to be shown at the Central Cinema next week .sx 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 .sx GUEST ARTIST .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx New Group's Arts Visit .sx " The Glass Menagerie , " thought by some American critics to be Tennessee Williams' greatest play , it is undoubtedly his most heart-felt , has not yet been performed professionally in Cambridge .sx 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 .sx Charles Vance comes from a theatrical family especially well-known in Northern Ireland .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx Backstage 'Slums' .sx 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 .sx " It calls on all members of the British Actors' 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 .sx Two Artists Who Live In Mills .sx WHERE PAINTS & MUSIC GO TOGETHER .sx . MUSIC and painting live side by side complimenting [SIC] each other at Pampisford Mill , the home of the Campbell-Taylors .sx 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 .sx " I can paint better with music as my companion , " she said .sx The mill has been converted attractively .sx The river swirls a few yards from the front door and provides just the setting of this artistic family .sx Mrs. Campbell-Taylor does not like to trade on her husband's name- he is a Royal Academician- so she uses her maiden name of Brenda Moore .sx Specialising in portraits she resumed her profession five years ago having seen her daughter launched in her own career as a pianist and teacher .sx Won Scholarships .sx Her art training started when , at the age of 14 , she was sent for a trial term to the Oxford School of Art .sx Later she went to the Brighton School and was awarded a local scholarship .sx When she was 20 years old she won a leaving scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx Although her painting career was interrupted , she helped her husband and continued to accumulate painting knowledge .sx " You never lose the ability to paint once you have absorbed the first principles in art- practise [SIC] is not as essential in painting as it is for instrument playing , " she says .sx Child Portraits .sx On the difference between the professional and the amateur artist , Mrs. Campbell-Taylor said :sx " It could not be defined by income or pay packet .sx " 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 .sx " For the amateur it is an emotional outlet which can also have its own monetary value in these days .sx " In the studio she has some delightful portraits and drawings of children , so I asked if she particularly enjoyed this type of work .sx 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 .sx She usually stays with the family and makes studies of the child when asleep before attempting the painting .sx " You really have to get an idea of the personality and form before you start .sx " It is as exciting and difficult for a child to sit as it is for the painter to paint .sx Clay Modelling .sx " The fun of portrait painting , " she added , " is in trying to assess and understand the temperament of the people you are painting .sx " 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 .sx And recently Mrs. Campbell-Taylor had two drawings at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters' Exhibition .sx .sx .AND A STUDIO THAT WILL BE LIT BY GLASS DOME .sx I MET another artist who will soon be living in a mill- this time a windmill at Hemingford Grey .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx It will have a glass dome to let in the light , and the four floors will give plenty of studio room .sx Frame Problem .sx 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 .sx The day I met her she had a problem on her hands .sx One of her paintings , 8 ft .sx by 5 ft .sx was sent unframed to the Women's International Art Club's exhibition .sx It came back that morning with a frame , and would not go through the front or back door .sx Mrs. Jackson is an extraordinary [SIC] prolific painter .sx In one year she paints more than 200 pictures , though not all these survive her critical scrutiny .sx Other Interests .sx She is 'passionately fond of cooking .sx ' 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 .sx Her other interest is collecting Victoriana .sx When she first started this 25 years ago she bought a Victorian chair for 7s 6d .sx , which she is sure will now fetch somewhere in the region of +30 .sx A SOLDIER WHO TURNED TO POTTERY AT AGE OF 52 .sx Work Of Reychan Exhibited At Heffer Gallery .sx 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 .sx His remarkable success must be due to some extent to heredity- he is of the fifth generation in a family of potters- but heredity cannot explain everything .sx Almost everyone must have seen his pieces of pottery sculpture at some time or another .sx 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 .sx Reychan has exhibited in the Open Air Exhibitions in London , and for the past six years at the Royal Academy .sx 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 .sx Reychan's knights in armour , his medieval heroes , classical personalities , are undeniably works of art of a very vital and individual kind .sx Their appeal , being modern , is direct and uncomplicated .sx In spite of the humour that has gone into a good many of them , they are not without dignity .sx 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 .sx Their prices , considered against the prices of more conventional pottery , are certainly not excessive .sx P.O. Selwyn Mitre Players Good Choice .sx SHAKESPEARE'S " Two Gentlemen of Verona , " this year'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 .sx 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 .sx