12 JUNE 1959, Page 14

THE STAGE IS SET

SIR,—The stage is indeed set in Geneva, but your correspondent appears to have missed the significance of the 'tactful cuts' in the production there of Look Back in Anger. Though conceivably due to 'a sense of diplomacy rare locally,' it is more likely that cer- tain lines were excised because the famous malcon- tent Jimmy Porter was played by the gifted young American actor, Charles Cooper, in whose Chicago accents the line 'But 1 must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age—unless you're American, of course' would have sounded less pointed than funny.—Yours faithfully,

MOM! College, Orford

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