19 JUNE 1971, page 7

Knight Time

Sir John Clements, I hear, is graciously allowing everybody at the Chichester Festi- val Theatre to call him 'Sir Fred' (a family nickname) to avoid confusion with Sir John......

Bridal Path

The newspapers gave nice coverage last week to the 'secret' wedding of Hayley Mills and film man Roy Boulting at Cap d'Ail: plenty of pictures of Hayley looking radiant (in......

Exit, Softly

The writing of doom is on the wall for BBC-TV's most popular programme, Softly Softly (a steady 11+ million viewers). The series beginning in September will almost certainly be......

Welshed

It is rare, conceivably unique, for a Brit- ish conductor to reach the finals of an in- ternational competition as prestigious as the Guido Cantelli .Conductors' Prize, which is......

The Spectator's Arts Notebook

The present buoyancy of ay shares is clearly encouraged by the belief of investors that the companies will succeed in their pressure campaign to get a second com- mercial......

Fry Foursome

It has always seemed to me regrettable that we have had no opportunity of seeing as a single entity Christopher Fry's sea- sonal quartet of plays—The Lady's not for 'Burning......