24 MARCH 1961, page 17

Theatre

Stone-Cold Symbols By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Lady from the Sea. (Queen's.)—The Music Man. - (Adclphi.)—The Hollow Crown. (Ald- wych.) EACH new English ver- sion of Ibsen's plays......

Pollyanna

Sta,-1 am indeed grateful to Kenneth Allsop for revealing the quagmires of perverted sexuality con- cealed below the surface of some of our childhood classics. The intellectual......

Within The Family?

SIR,—To compare Australia's colour policy with Ver- woerd's, and to call it 'ruthless in the same way, is to lie. We do keep coloured people out of the country, but we do not......

Trading Stamps

SIR.—Whatever the merits of obliging the domestic consumer to buy herself a present, trading stamps are not, surely—as quoted by Mr. Winner--a 'new sales device'? This form of......

Open Plan

S111.—Kenneth Robinson says that houses at the Ideal Home Exhibition show improvement because of wider adoption of the open plan. What in fact has the open plan to recommend it......