27 OCTOBER 1984, page 22

Clapped Out

Sir: I enjoyed Serban's Turandot, in spit e of the odd patch of silliness (those skulls!) but I agree with David Tang (Letters, 20 October) about the applause. There's far too......

Dracula In Bonn

Sir: Thank you for pointing out (Notes, 20 October) that West German leaders and commentators' while criticising Ceausescu 's treatment of ethnic Germans Transylvania and the......

Eaton Beware!

Sir: The moral to be drawn from the current response of the NUM to the attempt by the NCB to modernise the British coal industry is, surely, that if you cast pearls before swine......

Lonely Hearts

Sir: I was interested to read Dhiren ftha; gat's article on matrimonial classifieds ( 13 October). But has he ever read the back pages of Time Out? Semper eadern (almost). Tom......

Sir: In Your Notes Of 20 October You Stated That

Plan for Coal 'even when first con- ceived, was a ludicrously optimistic set of projections.' This is incorrect. Plan for Coal was conceived in 1974, in the wake of the first......

Letters

Heathfield and Ezra Sir: Jimmy Reid's article ('Barnsley's Lenin', 13 October) is, of course, only one in a series of diatribes against National Union of Mineworkers President......