SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. iso
Set by A. V. Coton
The Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet is now rehearsing The Great Detective. This is "not based on any particular book or even episode" but is described as "a situation after Conan Doyle" and it will have among the characters "The Detective" and "The Doctor." Readers are invited to prepare in synopsis form (limit 200 words) a ballet on "a situation after" one of the following: Jean-Paul Sartre, Ethel M. Dell, Ronald Fkbank, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Ouida, Jane Austen, Raymond Chandler, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Charles Morgan.—Usual prizes.
Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked "Competition," and must be received not later than January 7th. Results will be published in the Spectator of January 16th.
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