7 DECEMBER 1956, page 16

Fanny

SIR,—I wrote two versions of my review of Fanny, the Drury Lane musical, because I thought I could improve it. In the first I said, in effect: 'The girl is well-dressed, but a......

English Fare

SIR,—Mr. Glyn Daniel's article made delicious, greedy reading, and compels gratitude, but what is 'love in disguise'? May I suggest that Le Refine d'Angleterre (King Alfred's......

Contemporary Arts

A Tragedy from Greece A Girl in Black and The Silent World. (Cur- zon.) IT is perhaps too easy, in the case of a people like the Greeks, to talk of tragedy where in fact we mean......

The Stem Of Telly

How damnable it must be for the television bosses that imitations don't work. In the world in which Formula is King we're seeing,a spate of imitative gcneration the like of......

De Gustibus

S1R,—Your public is entitled to a minimum guarantee of fairness just as surely as your reviewers have the right to their opinions. Mr. Conquest, in his notice of Dannie Abse's......