4 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 38

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No, 299 Set by Edward Blishen

An actor's purgatory was recently defined as 'playing in Little Lord Fauntleroy at matinees, and Pinero's Sweet Lavender at night.' A prize of £5 (which may be divided) is offered for the neatest and wittiest defini' lions of purgatory for any three of the following : a poet, a civil servant, a school teacher, a housewife, a TV celebrity, a Cabinet Minister, a university don, a flint actress and a psychiatrist. Limit (if needed) seventy-five words.

Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 299,' 99 Gower Street, London, WC1, must be received' by November 15. Results in the Spectator of November 25.