1 MAY 1964, Page 18

OTHERS ABIDE SIR,—John Drinkwater (who, incidentally, has for- gotten him?)

played Henry IV and not Henry VI in the Thirties. (The Falstaff was George Robey.) I would not have mentioned this trivial fact had not your reviewer, Mr. Martin Seymour-Smith, been so irritatingly omniscient about Middleton's date of birth. People who live in glass houses, etc.