12 OCTOBER 1956, page 7

The Party On The Stage Of The Royal Opera House

after the first performance of the Bolshoi Ballet reminded me painfully of the entertainment provided after the Queen's Coronation. There was the same determined rush for food......

A Spectator's Notebook

I' M WILL BLAME and many will sympathise with Mr. Nigel N icolson, one of the most eloquent Tory abolitionists, for w ithdrawing his support from the Silverman Bill. As MP for......

A Friend Who Thinks I Am Unduly Harsh On Commercial

tele- vision suggested I should watch the BBC's latest serial, David C oPperfield—praised by the critics—and ask myself what Would have been said about it if it had appeared on......

Coming Of Age Intelligence

ROCK 'N ROLL at Duke's 21st birthday party.—Daily Mirror, October 10. No ROCKING. Duke's party is so sedate.—Daily Express, October 10.......

Political Commentary By Charles Curran

Llandudno I WRITE as the Tory Party assembles here for its annual conference. This is the most self-critical gathering in the party's history since 1946. The list of resolutions......

Pleased Though I Was At The Idea Of Lord Hailsham

as a new broom for the Admiralty, I hope any dust he sweeps up is not going to get into his eyes. At a press conference last week he said : 'It is being seriously suggested that......

I Have Always Agreed With The Thesis That The State

and its offshoots will have to take over the patronage of the Arts from others from whom it has taken the means of patronising anything. The clause in the 1948 Local Government......