21 AUGUST 1959, page 15

Roundabout

'NO BATHING TODAY TILL 12 A.M.,' proclaimed a notice at the Ruislip Lido; but to the casual eye things seemed to be going on much as usual. White sails scudded in the distance......

Theatre

Simulation in the Fields By ALAN BRIEN King Lear. (Stratford-on-Avon.) — The Aspern Papers. (Queen's,) Mats. MALAPROP accidentally hit off the phrase for Shakespeare's King......