1 JULY 1960, Page 29

SIR,—Your angry young dramatic critic, Alan Brien, is not sufficiently

subtle or clever to make the kindly, sympathetic and 'elderly' gentlemen, whom he merges into one character Hugo Puffball, into angry old men.

So stupid and so ill-advised an article is hardly worthy of the Spectator.—Yours faithfully,

GEORGE FEARON

Chairman The Association of London Theatre Press Representatives, 31 Queen's House, Leicester Square, WC2