18 OCTOBER 1986, page 33

Nobody Makes A Problem Like Maria

Rupert Christiansen ZEFFIRELLI: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 F ranco Zeffirelli believes that 'every public person is a miracle of......

Court Jester, Caught Out

Frances Spalding NINA HAMNETT: QUEEN OF BOHEMIA by Denise Hooker Constable, £15 0 1=11■ - W hen Nina Hamnett died the Times, in a lengthy obituary, declared that howev- er much......

We Regret That In The Issue Of 27 September The

titles of Spike Milligan's poems were transposed......