26 JULY 1957, Page 14

SIR,—I am sorry that my factual report in your columns

about my experiences in the theatre world should have made Mr. Raphael puke, i.e. `to eject food from the stomach; to vomit' (Oxford Did.). I doubt whether his hope that my article will induce 'a lot of other people' to puke will be realised. If Mr. Raphael has anything left inside him he will now be able to stage a repeat performance of the art of puking, when I tell him that one of the results of my article has been a letter from a manager asking to be allowed to read one of my plays. Now I come to think of it, that popular dramatist Mr. Shakespeare wrote about 'the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.'

Mr. Raphael should disengage himself from The Athena:on, Pall Mall, SW! EVANS AND CHRISTIE