Will Waspe
Many strange things appear in the arts pages of the Times (not least the reviews), but none has been stranger than the reproduction across two columns last week of a full-length portrait of Lord Drogheda, chairman of the Financial Times (and, pro tern, of the Royal Opera House). It is a nice enough picture, and that — although Waspe doubts it — may be all there is to it.
Unavenged
It looked ominous to Waspe to see Diana Rigg (back from the flop of her Hollywood TV series) and Honor Blackman sitting almost side by side at the first night of Zorba at Greenwich. .A rare treat for autograph-hunting locals (who can ordinarily count on no one more illustrious than those wellknown inseparables, Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms), but I feared the two Avenger ladies might be moved to leap up and deliver a few karate chops among the performers, in self-defence against the villainous, proceedings onstage.
Good neighbour
sfhe Annely Juda Gallery has a new neighbour in off-the-track Tottenham Mews (off Tottenham Street, off Tottenham Court Road), a gallery called Picturewise run by film-man Bryan Forbes, who is having a dabble in the art game. Forbes will evidently not be competing with Mrs Juda for the continental moderns. His first show features an 'unknown ' ninteenth-century Frenchman named Emile Roux, whose g.reat-great-grand-daughter, the film acresss Dany Robin, happens to be a neighbour of Forbes at Virginia Water.
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