Cookery
Television (also on Christmas Eve) has the Coventry Nativity Play. 1 salute, by the way, Mr. Philip Harben, who always makes a good job of his television cookery programmes, and who on Monday night cooked and served a Christmas dinner in half an hour, a fascinating feat of kitchen jugglery. His guests at table were those who will be working next Sunday—a hospital nurse, an engine-driver, a bus conductress and so on. Excellent ; I could have sworn a smell of turkey was coming out of the screen. But is not Miss Joan Gilbert, for all her talents, becoming an increas- ingly talkative and managing hostess ?
The Drama Department, perhaps running a little short of Chris- mas plays, added The Winter's Tale, of which only the title is seasonal, surely. Something of the same kind of logic, I imagine, has dictated the Alexandra Palace choice of Twelfth Night for early in the New Year ; if ever there was a vernal and unwinter-like play, this is it. (Yes, I do know about its production at the Middle Temple feast.) But, to tell the truth, I don't myself mind what peg a production is hung on, provided it is well cut ; and The Winter's Tale (though I could only, so to speak, try it on, for television on Monday night was luring me away) seemed very well tailored.
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