29 MAY 1959, page 36

Hallo To Hollywood

THE only place Gavin Lambert has allowed him- self irony in his devastatingly deadpan 'scenes of Hollywood life' is in his titles. The Slide Area is both those sections of the......

No Such Things

The Anatomy of Puck. By K. M. Briggs. (Rout- ledge and Kegan Paul, 30s.) 'WHEN I was a child,' wrote Aubrey, 'and so before the civil wars, the fashion was for old women and......