10 AUGUST 1956, page 15

Who Is Walter Hammond?

SIR,—When my copy of your paper arrives, I always turn to Pharos first and am never disappointed. I read with tolerant amusement about the Eton College boys who had never heard......

Contemporary Arts

Muted Tragedy THE SEAGULL. By Anton Chekhov. (Saville.) --CESAR AND CLEOPATRA. By Bernard SHAW. (Old Vie). WHENEVER a play by Chekhov is put on there always seems to be a great......

Cheesy

SIR,-4 am writing a comprehensive book on e history , (not the making; there are thousa n d s of pamphlets on this) of cheese. One chapter is to be an anthology of inter- esting......

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Sue,—I must protest against your capitalisation of the pronouns referring to Jesus in my letter published in your issue of June 22. This implies a conception of him which I do......

Bbc-manship Sk—perhaps The Bbc Sponsorship Of A `mrs....

is the beginning of a campaign to recover the lost million pounds. In the uproar of the ITA boys howling miserably and in vain for their E750,000 culture money the BBC may slip......

Based Firmly On The Burgess-maclean Affair, This Play...

could happen if the abandoned wife of an absconded fellow- traveller began, a year later, to receive mes- sages from him. He implies that his attitude is unchanged and he......

Sir,—i Am Sure That Pharos Needs No Aid Fr0 111 Me

in his difference with Evelyn Waugh. Ity deed his courteous, but devastating, reply W f the letter in this week's issue is sufficient 0 itself. Mr. Waugh has chosen to support 3......

Drink And Road Accidents Sir,—in The Spectator (july 27) Dr.

Somerville Hastings, MP, writes : 'The chemical test is This might create the impression that the courts in Holland base an eventual judgement solely on the outcome of the......

Sir,—h Ow Bitchy Can A Reviewer Get? I Have Gist Seen

a cutting of Mr. Brian Inglis's notice Charges me with making a dull job of a story Methods of Mr. John Huston. of my book, The Crazy Kill, in which he founded on the......