30 NOVEMBER 1956, page 8

Some Months Ago I Commented On The Criticism By John

Barber, of the Daily Express, of a midnight matinee in aid of the Actors' Orphanage. Mr. Barber was impressed only by the 'glorious' singing of Alfred Drake : unfortunately for......

A Spectator's Notebook

A FEW WEEKS ago the Spectator printed an engaging parody of Tom Driberg's description, in an English newspaper, of his meeting with Guy Burgess in Moscow. Never imagining that......

Mr. Burgess's Passion For Accuracy Does Not Extend To His

quotations either from myself or from Khrushchev. I called his remark about Beria not 'false' but 'ridiculous.' And the sen- tence he gives from Khrushchev should start : 'In......