16 SEPTEMBER 1955, Page 7

AM GLAD that Waiting for Godot has found a home

where it can be publicly performed after its successful run at the Arts. But how did it get past the Lord Chamberlain? When a pro- duction was first contemplated, many months ago, the Lord Chamberlain refused to `license it unless certain expressions were deleted. The production was abandoned on the grounds that their removal would lend the play a spurious and prob- ably ludicrous air of refinement—but not before the producer had toyed with the idea of carrying on, substituting for, each deleted phrase the words 'Lord Chamberlain.' This would have fitted in quite agreeably with the play's mood. I am really Lord Chamberlain sorry that the project was abandoned. * * *