13 MAY 1955, page 7

And Of The Remaining Six Productions, Two Were Revivals (of

Shakespeare and Shaw), one was an adaptation of Zola's shocker, Therese Raquin, and two (of Anouilh and Wilder) might be called farcical comedies if it were not uncharitable to......

A Spectator's Notebook

MR. ANEURIN BEVAN'S statement that Toryism and Christianity are inconsistent with each other has passed with less comment than the definition of a new dogma usually occasions,......

I Caught A Fleeting Glimpse Of Harry Martinson's Novel The

Road as it sped through this office on its way to a reviewer. Whether or not the publication in English of this rich picaresque narrative will make its Swedish author's name......

Last Week The Evening Standard Reported Under Big...

what you've done to my best rug," said Coward, stabbing the air with an angry finger. Retorted Fairbanks, brOnzed after three weeks in Rome: "Oh I didn't think you Were looking,......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE I DOUBT whether any reader of the Spectator \ has heard of Mr. Frank Allaun. But they are very likely to do so after May 26, because he has just been adopted as......

`do You Think Britain Should Make The Hydrogen Bomb, Or

should we devote atomic energy solely to peaceful uses?' asks the News Chronicle Gallup Poll, which all too evidently has no use for fine distinctions about offensive and......