14 APRIL 1973, page 27

Theatrical Gaiety

Sir: Since I am all for ' letting sleeping dogs lie,' I was not especially pleased that Will Waspe, in his discussion of the 'gay' theatre and the influence of the late Hugh......

Sir: I Was Shocked And Horrified To Read Your Article

on A World suddenly less gay (March 31) and note "even Waspe feels constrained to proceed delicately." You say that Beaumont "was hardly known to the general public, his name......

Sir: There Was A Time, Two Or Three Years Ago,

when sturdier constables from London's police force used to be sent out to the further and darker reaches of Wandsworth Common in nightly attempts to prevent the loonier Members......

From Mrs Rozanne D'elia Sir: I Am Writing To Applaud

(though perhaps regretfully) your extremely outspoken and truthful article (March 31) on Sir Noel Coward and ' Binkie ' Beaumont. While being unable to do anything but entirely......

Tango Malady

Sir, Does it surprise David Holbrook to know that I pounced on and read his article before any other in last week's Spectator (April 7), not for digesting as sociological......

Sir: David Holbrook's Article On Pornography Confirmed My...

Where does one draw the line between liberalism and libertinarianism? If we must have censors do we give them any guidelines or do we let them infer what is socially acceptable?......

Students Grants

Sir, Extremist rule in the NUS, reproduced in miniature in the Oxford University Student Representative Council of which I have first hand experience, is based on the lack of......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

Connoisseurs of well-born thoroughbreds will be in their element at Newbury this Saturday. The clash between the Dewhurst and Royal Lodge winners, Lunchtime and Adios, in the......