28 JANUARY 1955, Page 16

SPACE PANTOMIME Sia,—Mr. Hartley, in your last issue of 1954,

conjectures about the prospects of a science- fiction pantomime. I may point out, reinforcing the belief common to Celts, that the Cornish are invariably twelve months ahead of every- one else in these matters, that two weeks ago I saw, at St. Ives, a pantomime entitled The Babes in the Martian Woods. I am prepared to forward to you, Sir, on request, a photograph which has reached me of the finale of the pantomime, with the Babes mountcd on the shoulders of Dan Doubt and the Wicked Space- man Uncle, setting out across the plains of Mars escorted by an olla podrida of Martians, Flying Saucers, and spaceships. Kernow bys vycken.—Yours faithfully,