16 JULY 1965, Page 11

At the Bottom of the Garden

SIR.—Stage designers are unfortunately subject to extreme waves of fashion. For the last two years Mr. John Bury has been London's (and Stratford's) most fashionable designer, but not longer.

The designs for the 1960 Stratford production of Troilus and Cressida which your reviewer, Mr: Robertson, admiringly remembered in last week's Spectator, are wrongly attributed to Mr. Bury: they were, in fact, the work of Mr. Leslie Hurry. .

In an article which castigates Covent Garden's, present collection of settings and cites the recent Turandot as representing the nadir, the error is the more regrettable—it was Mr. Hurry's very satisfac- tory Turanclot which the new decor replaced.

The Masters' Common Room, Highgate School. N6

C. H. HARTLEY