Will Waspe
I am sorry that Gian Carlo Menotti is so distressed over an item in this column last month referring to an Anna Mahler sculpture in Spoleto (see a Letter to the Editor, delivered to these offices by his good friend, Stephen Spender) and ! am glad that he has taken an opportunity to make his views perfectly clear. It is well known that the Spoleto Festival owes all to Menotti (who is unstintingly generous of both time and money where it is concerned), as it is that Spoleto owes all to its festival. My item, of which he complains, was not in the least intended to criticise his attitude, which I would wholly support; and there was, of course, no suggestion that there was any connection whatever between Menotti and Maurice Rowdon's play about Mahler.
A plug is a plug is a...
Richard Cork, the art critic of the London Evening Standard took up two and a half inches of his once-a-week column to explain why there was one art show in London that he was unable to write about, he having chosen the pictures himself. This is a very good way of not writing about something. It must have been especially appreciated by the several score other art galleries and their artists that Cork was not ethically debarred from writing about, but didn't.
Upper and lower
As we wonder who on earth could have betrayed an actress of Margaret Leighton's distinction into LWT's drivellingly witless ' comedy ' series The Upper Crusts, let us not withhold our congratulations from Kenneth More who cannily declined the offer to he her costar. The story was that More objected to the series being taped in front of an audience. Now that we have all seen the thing (well, not quite all of us: it is still lying in wait for Midlands viewers next month), we can more properly appeciate the tactfulness of his refusal.
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