Book-banged
A definition of 'Bookbang' could be: how to take knocks for trying to encourage book sales. Most of the television and press people, liverish as first-night theatre critics, judged the Bookbang by the standard of its opening ceremonies, which were less Than explosive. But things brightened up considerably in the days that followed. Most of the children seemed to enjoy the exhibition, and the par- ents followed them round the stalls uncom- plainingly. Feliks Topolski made £290. for charity in four evenings' work, Spike Milli- gan recited to a full house in the Big Top and could hardly tear himself away, and the only real malcontents were devoted readers, of the type who might while away an afternoon in Foyles, who found the whole set-up dis- tracting. If the Bookbang lacked that final
touch of Coney Island zest, it might be, as one mournful spirit remarked, that in a circus atmosphere of this sort there are about twenty times more things you can do with a coconut, (eat it, drink it, throw it, paint it, further suggestions to anywhere but the SPECTATOR).
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