6 DECEMBER 1963, Page 15

SIR,—No one could be r..are grateful to you than myself

for publishing Richard Ingrams's highly illuminating 'apologia' for the 'satire movement.' My only complaint perhaps is that his preference for 'dirty words written on walls' over 'wit' might be regarded as an opinion shared by others than himself.

And, without seeming to carp, there is just one point of fact on which I would like to take issue with Mr. Ingrams—when he says that 'the new thing about Beyond The Fringe was that it called Mr. Macmillan "Mr. Macmillan."' There were several 'new things' about Beyond The Fringe but that was not one of them. For reasons best known to the Lord Chamberlain, the actual name of the Prime Minister was never mentioned in the entire show.

&Chun( Walk, SW3 CHRISTOPHER ROOK ER