The Post review of next week's shows .sx ANOTHER FROM 'SALAD DAYS' STABLE .sx THE team behind the longest running musical in the world " Salad " ) have come up with another musical which goes to the West End the week after it has finished at the NOTTINGHAM THEATRE ROYAL .sx 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 .sx " 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's reactions to his newspaper's questionnaire .sx As in " Salad Days , " the young couple have personality and purpose .sx 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's interference .sx And Mark believes he has it in him to convert a whole country town .sx Anna Dawson plays the girl .sx 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 .sx John Baddeley , who partners her as Mark , was also in " Free as Air , " as well as " Follow That Girl .sx " 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 .sx " 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's husband) .sx The musical numbers are by Basil Pattison , and decor by Brian Currah , who recently designed for " The Caretaker .sx " PLAYHOUSE :sx Third week of " Second Post , " a revue of 28 items by various authors , produced by Val May before he leaves for Bristol Old Vic .sx 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 .sx City Cinemas .sx Following the same formula of a tearaway technique compounded of slapstick and 6double entendre , the sequel to " Dentist in the Chair " is " Dentist on the Job " at the ABC and METROPOLE cinemas .sx In this , the manager of a firm putting out a new toothpaste ( Eric Barker ) gets a couple of dentists to endorse it .sx It seems a good opportunity for the Dean of King Alfred's Dental College ( likewise Eric Barker ) to unload a brace of recently graduated deadheads , Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens .sx With dental mechanic Kenneth Connor , just out of gaol , they dream up schemes to promote the new paste .sx In the process they meet Shirley Eaton- in a bubble bath on to which they turn a wind machine .sx 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 .sx Now if a tape extolling the virtues of their toothpaste could be substituted .sx .? Some hardworking man at the Disney studios has counted the spots on the Dalmatians in " One Hundred and One Dalmatians " at the ODEON .sx Each dog wears 32 to 72 spots , depending on which side is exposed to the viewer- which accounts for 6,469,952 dancing spots .sx 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 .sx The most sophisticated to date of Disney'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 .sx It is love at first sight , marriage at first opportunity , and soon fifteen beautiful puppies are born ( to the Dalmatians , that is) .sx But enter a villainess , Cruella De Vil , rich , cunning and with a passion for coats made of Dalmatian hides .sx She dognaps the pups and puts them with 101 others in a haunted old English manor house .sx Scotland Yard is baffled , but the dogs of London get on to the scent .sx With " Gunlight at Sandoval , " Tech .sx Texas Ranger Tom Tryon avenges death of friend killed trying to prevent bank hold-up .sx Dan Duryea .sx It was inevitable that Peter Ustinov should join the exclusive four-star club by writing , producing , directing and starring in one film .sx 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't locate it on the map .sx 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 .sx Love and laughter , he feels , engender more happiness than politics or philanthropy .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx Technicolor .sx With " A Date with Death , " Gerald Mohr tracks policeman's killer .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx Accompanied by crippled gambler Anthony Quinn , the new Marshal arrives and makes his mark .sx Sickened by all the lawless killing , Widmark throws in his lot with him .sx Dorothy Malone .sx CinemaScope , Tech .sx 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 .sx And when he is called into the army , it does .sx MECHANICS :sx " There Was a Crooked Man .sx " Ex army explosives expert Norman Wisdom is persuaded to join gang of safecrackers by the argument that if there weren't any criminals , all the clergymen , police and probation officers would be out of work .sx After a few successes , the gang disguise themselves as American army officers and work a gigantic swindle by blowing up an entire town .sx Susannah York .sx Alfred Marks .sx With " Trapeze , " crippled and embittered by a fall , circus star Burt Lancaster refuses to teach American acrobat Tony Curtis the dangerous triple somersault .sx Whirling round in the circus tent , they solve an emotional triangle involving Gina Lollobrigida .sx In Japan , apparently , they play something called " The Cola Game , " described at the SCALA .sx A circle of boys and girls place a Coca-Cola bottle on its side and spin it .sx 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 .sx A pretty young co-ed named Junko gets into the game and thus meets a youngster with whom she has an affair .sx Discovering herself pregnant she has an abortion , but her lover couldn't care less and goes off on a ski-ing trip with the girl in the next apartment .sx Junko moves out of his flat and goes to live with a young architect whom she respects greatly and who feels sorry for her .sx In this way , it says here , " she experiences the true meaning of love and happiness .sx " X-certificate .sx Phillipe Lemarre has been the scapegoat of some doubtful pals in " Les Clandestines " at the MOULIN ROUGE .sx 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 .sx Now there is a thriving call-girl racket operating from the old man's apartment which they have taken over .sx With the help of blonde mannequin Nicole Courcel , the released prisoner pieces the story together .sx With " The Parasites , " Jeanne Moreau is a streetgirl forever searching for real love in Montmartre .sx When her protector is betrayed to the police she gets entangled with other shadowy creatures of the underworld .sx Both films X-certificate .sx The Post review of next week's shows .sx JESSIE AND RALPH TWINKLE AGAIN .sx TWO veterans of the twenties and thirties- one remembered for her vivacity in musicals , and the other for his assinities [SIC] in a series of world famous farces- visit Nottingham next week as a team .sx Jessie Matthews and Ralph Lynn come to the THEATRE ROYAL in a farce called " Port in a Storm " by Rex Howard Arundel .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx The writer has a house staff of ex-convicts to keep her in touch with the way of the underworld , and the farce's ingredients include a long-lost son , a runaway secretary and a lock-picking butler .sx The play is on its pre-London tour .sx Jessie Matthews made her first appearance on the stage in 1917 when she was ten years old , and took to revue five years later .sx 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's brightest discoveries [SIC] 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 .sx Miss Matthews last came to the Nottingham Theatre Royal in 1955 when she and her daughter Katie played in Coward's " Private Lives .sx " NEARLY 80 .sx 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 .sx 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 .sx " 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 .sx " They were together again two years later in Peter Jones's " The Party Spirit .sx " Mr. " Oh , " ) Hare can be seen again in Nottingham , by the way , on October 16 , when he plays in the tour of " The Bride Come [SIC] Back " with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge .sx PLAYHOUSE :sx Fourth and positively final week of the revue " Second Post " twenty-eight items of song , sketch and dance by various authors .sx Two of them have just been sold for the new West End revue " The Lord Chamberlain " - " Lady of the Camellias , " in which Rhoda Lewis sings 6a la Dietrich , and " Cries of Old London " involving three decrepit bellringers and a stomach-heaving " sick " joke .sx City Cinemas .sx A ten-year-old opus by Alfred Hitchcock is re-issued at the ABC and METROPOLE- his " Strangers on a Train .sx " A long train journey often prompts complete strangers to strike up a casual conversation .sx They will talk about the weather , politics or crime .sx But it's rare for two people to talk about murder on a personal level .sx