5 FEBRUARY 1960, page 17

Theatre

Debased Coinage By ALAN BRIEN The Lily White Boys. (Royal Court.) — The Beggar's Opera. (Questors, Ealing.) WHAT ever happened to the proletariat? The propertyless ones, who had......

Shell-angle

SIR. —Mr. Bernard Levin was not quite right about the Hemingway incident, and his shell-angle theories in Madrid . . . at least about the result. Hemingway's theory that......

L Oss Of Face

St St lt ,-- -Your comment on 'Loss of Face' (January 29) Is_ critical of the Admiralty for not making its new tirst Lord better known, but seems also to disparage fiord......

The Great Fortune

SIR,—When your reviewer, Mr. John Coleman, says of my new novel that 'a sense of direction—the why of a novel—is conspicuously, fatally absent,' I can- not help feeling that he,......

T He Wind And The Rain Sln , —after Ten Years' Silence, The

Wind and the Rain is to come to life once more not as a quarterly, but as a yearbook published from America and edited from London. It will continue to be 'A Review of the Arts......

Sir,--i Am Shocked To Find Leo Spitzer Described In Your

columns as 'a pretentious peddler of "stylistics." ' Dr. Spitzer's finest essays appear never to have been translated out of the original German, which puts t hem out of reach......