7 OCTOBER 1960, Page 13

BY LORD ADRIAN BY LORD ADRIAN

Lord Adrian, OM, FRS., who is Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, will lecture on the human internal communication system and the complex relationship between brain and body.

A fen, tickets are still available from GRANADA TV NETWORK Golden Square, London WI uage surely gives us the clue to the jingling, upper-class foppery which must have marked their dress and their mannerisms. By insisting on making his young bulls consistent, he has forced Alec McCowen to throw away the Queen Mab speech as a series of impromptu wisecracks. On the other hand, Mercutio's death is brilliantly effective, even if inconsistent. The assumption here is that the constant duels are hardly more than a dangerous game in which no gentleman expects to be killed. The crowd applaud each clever hit and long after Mercutio has been fatally wounded, Romeo and Benvolio still think his 'I am hurt' is a bad joke. His anger, `Zounds, to scratch a man to death,' is the genuine half- comic indignation of the soldier who is nearly dead but cannot bring himself to believe it has happened to him.