12 JUNE 1964, Page 10

.Non-Events

Happenings is what they weren't in the Deni- son Hall at the beginning of the week, these much-heralded free theatrical events brought over from Paris to throw the money-changers out of the theatre. It is the kind of cabaret that the Berlin of the Twenties offered, only with the English trimmings of bikinis and inhibitions, and instead of gleaming naked bodies in symbolic and not so symbolic poses, we get frightfully decent boys and girls slapping one another with fishes and paint, and rolling in nets or sacks. The third form was not far away, master and all, and the school sports looming behind them. The English don't believe in night-clubs; if they did, they wouldn't confuse them with the theatre.