5 OCTOBER 1956, page 19

Suburbanity

SIR,—The point of Mr. Betjeman's suburban drooling frequently escapes me: I am particu- larly baffled by his antithesis (in 'City and Suburban,' September 21) between a......

Contemporary Arts

Good and Evil I WONDER whether the Government, Mr. Gaitskell, Sir Kenneth Clark and the noble lords who thought man must needs choose the highest when he sees it, really......

A Phoenix

ELECTRA. By Jean Giraudoux. (Oxford Play- house.)—THE VARIETY THEATRE OF CHINA. (Princes.) IT would have been a great pity if the Oxford Playhouse which, in the old days,......

S1r,—country-house Theatricals Are Not Quite The...

supposes. In 1953 I took part in a performance of The Importance of Being Earnest in a country house in Co. Londonderry. We had intended to stage the play out of doors, but......