1 JANUARY 1960, Page 26

Jack Hylton

TN the Spectator of December 4 our theatre critic "severely criticised Mr. Jack' Hylton in connec- tion With the musical Kookaburra. Finding that Mr. Hylton was concerned with this production onlyqs the lessee of the theatre, and not as impresario, we corrected the mistake and apolo- gised for it in our next issue. Mr. Hylton has pointed out to us that our explanation. might have been construed as an attempt to justify the original criticism. We would like to make it clear' that this was not our intention, and to express our regret if it appeared to be. As we wrote at the time, we had no desire to belittle Mr. Hylton's many notable achievements in show business: —EDITOR, Spectator.