12 SEPTEMBER 1958, page 15

Life A Lean, Bleak Fellow In A Bowler Hat And

a black suit, shuffling his adjectives like a con-man with other people's banknotes, made a tinted out- burst about Blackpool Illuminations. Th' Lights, he said, were not only a......

Theatre

Purple Patch By ALAN BRIEN burgh.) TYRONE (itratale is the Mike Todd of the British theatre. No play is ever quite big enough, loud enough, bright enough, confusing enough for......

Roundabout

Art EVERYONE looked hunted to start with. Scoured and buttoned into cascades of frills or into crisp white shirts with Bavarian braces, they wondered why they had come. Was this......