5 AUGUST 1949, Page 18

WOMEN HUMORISTS

SIR,—In a recent notice on the Humorous Art Exhibition there was a complete absence of any feminine name. The cartoonist brand of art seems to have no attraction for women artists. Why should this be ? We arc by no means without their help in humorous and even Comic writings and plays. Why not drawings, too ? Women certainly do not lack a receptive appreciation in this direction. What, then, do they lack ?-