3 MAY 1957, Page 15

THE ANGRY, YOUNG MAN

SIR,—I was astonished to read Mr. Robert Hancock's vicious and vulgar attack on Mr. John Osborne in the pages of the Spectator. Does he really imagine that such trivia as women's shoes and condensed milk in tea would interest readers of your paper? His reply to Mr. Osborne this week is just childish—he (Mr. Hancock) appears to be so angered by Mr. Osborne's plays that he has thrown logic to the winds in a silly, personal attack; he would have been better em- ployed in writing some constructive dramatic criticism.—Yours faithfully,

EVELYN SEYMER 28 Clareville Street, SW7