16 DECEMBER 1960, page 24

Crazy Artiste

ON the last day of the holidays I was sitting alone in the cinema in Maidenhead. Queen Christina had marched into the room, thrown off her great feathered hat and was about to......

New Men

Divide and Lose. By Michael lonides. (Bles, 2 1 S' ) MICHAEL IONIDES was an irrigation engineer in Iraq and Transjordan before the war, he served in the region during the war,......

Pierroph I Le

Pierrot. By Kay Dick. (Hutchinson, 30s.) ON an inside flap of the cover, a healthy-looking blonde gazes quizzically at you over the left ear of a miniature dachshund. This is......