26 OCTOBER 1956, Page 19

DARE•DEVILRY

SIR,—Pharos, and many others who have written in the same sense, are doing no service to theatregoers when they point out how foolish the Lord Chamberlain's office is made to look by the successful presentation of a banned play at the Comedy Theatre. If any changes in the law result, they are far more likely, in the present climate of public and official opinion, to be in the direction of putting club theatres under increased restric- tion, It only needs a word from some influen- tial public figure like Mr. John Gordon, and the whole Watergate venture could be wrecked. Let's not actually dare them to do it.—Yours faithfully,

B. A. YOUNG 28 Elm Park Gardens, SWIG